For those who want to keep labelling the Tea Party movement racist...

[EriktheRed]

The North Iowa Tea Party has removed a billboard comparing President Obama's socialism to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after holocaust survivor groups and many on the left objected, according to an Associated Press story for July 14.

Iowa Tea Party Group Removes Obama/Hitler Billboard

Bravo!

That's obviously good news, but that also wasn't really racist in nature.

 

[keee keee]

These losers are losing the support of the people and all they have left is to call anyone that disagrees with them a RACIST!!! they did this to many times It is not working any more. The Democrats are the party of racists. When will all the minorities realize that they use the racist card to get them excited and this gets them riled up. but they do nothing for them they ignore them after they get their votes. The dems are just using you to keep their power. they promise you the world every election but never come thru with their promises!!!! Look ate the Democrat party See many minorities in power besides the Obama, in the administration, Senate, congress.

 

[Foxfyre]

FF...I could care less if everyone and their brother denounces the NAACP. I don't care if anyone thinks they are racist.

You're barking up the wrong tree.

I'm not barking up any tree.

I just think somebody defending the NAACP would serve them better if he didn't come across 1) as a hypocrite and 2) somebody parroting accusations about the Tea Parties that he can't back up.

So far as I know, however, there isn't any organized movement to discredit, diminish, marginalize, or destroy the NAACP. Nor has the Tea Party movement come out with any statements or criticism of the NAACP. But man oh man would the Left love to shut up and shut down the Tea Partiers.

Can you imagine the hue and cry and outrage from the left, most especially the black members of the left, if the Tea Party had issued a resolution calling on the NAACP to denounce or dismiss its racists? The Tea Partiers could come up with video footage to support their opinion, too. So far nobody in the NAACP has been able to do that.

Like you I shrug off most of the race baiting these days because 'racist' has become just another epithet used for name calling.

I do get so very tired of the double standard applied though.

But man oh man would the Left love to shut up and shut down the Tea Partiers.

if the Tea Party had issued a resolution calling on the NAACP to denounce or dismiss its racists?

2 statements -- wow!

Criticism = wanting to shut down and there are unnamed racists in the NAACP?


like I said -- wow!


btw, wtf is up with the video proof idiocy? looney tunes?

Well, there is a plethora of video like this that was featured at the 1997 NAACP convention and has never been condemned or objected to by any NAACP leader so far as I know.
Breitbart.tv FLASHBACK: Louis Farrakhan Declares War on ‘Negroes’ at 1997 NAACP Conference

And this morning, when Al Sharpton was denouncing the Tea Partiers and was repeatedly asked if the NAACP could produce video evidence of the charges they were making against it, he repeated ducked, dodged, weaved and refused to answer the question.

That was probably due to the shellacking he took here:
[ame]http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=eKo-Rj81aL8&feature=related[/ame]

 

[topspin]

They pulled it in a day because it was incredably racist and stupid. Not unlike tea baggers.

 

[Dante]

I'm not barking up any tree.

I just think somebody defending the NAACP would serve them better if he didn't come across 1) as a hypocrite and 2) somebody parroting accusations about the Tea Parties that he can't back up.

So far as I know, however, there isn't any organized movement to discredit, diminish, marginalize, or destroy the NAACP. Nor has the Tea Party movement come out with any statements or criticism of the NAACP. But man oh man would the Left love to shut up and shut down the Tea Partiers.

Can you imagine the hue and cry and outrage from the left, most especially the black members of the left, if the Tea Party had issued a resolution calling on the NAACP to denounce or dismiss its racists? The Tea Partiers could come up with video footage to support their opinion, too. So far nobody in the NAACP has been able to do that.

Like you I shrug off most of the race baiting these days because 'racist' has become just another epithet used for name calling.

I do get so very tired of the double standard applied though.

But man oh man would the Left love to shut up and shut down the Tea Partiers.

if the Tea Party had issued a resolution calling on the NAACP to denounce or dismiss its racists?

2 statements -- wow!

Criticism = wanting to shut down and there are unnamed racists in the NAACP?


like I said -- wow!


btw, wtf is up with the video proof idiocy? looney tunes?

Well, there is a plethora of video like this that was featured at the 1997 NAACP convention and has never been condemned or objected to by any NAACP leader so far as I know.
Breitbart.tv FLASHBACK: Louis Farrakhan Declares War on ‘Negroes’ at 1997 NAACP Conference

And this morning, when Al Sharpton was denouncing the Tea Partiers and was repeatedly asked if the NAACP could produce video evidence of the charges they were making against it, he repeated ducked, dodged, weaved and refused to answer the question.

There is no standard that says one must provide video for something to be true. You'd better get a life with that one.

Louis F., is not the NAACP. Louis and the NAACP were not running candidates or positions for candidates were they?

Al Sharpton is not the NAACP.

I don't get what you are getting at with the comparison. What are you trying to say?


note: I just listened to the whole thing. What is Louis talking about and what does he mean by war?

this is a great example of white people looking for racist attacks where non exists.

and FF, Bill O'reilly says "I'm not saying it didn't happen."

 

[Foxfyre]

But man oh man would the Left love to shut up and shut down the Tea Partiers.

if the Tea Party had issued a resolution calling on the NAACP to denounce or dismiss its racists?

2 statements -- wow!

Criticism = wanting to shut down and there are unnamed racists in the NAACP?


like I said -- wow!


btw, wtf is up with the video proof idiocy? looney tunes?

Well, there is a plethora of video like this that was featured at the 1997 NAACP convention and has never been condemned or objected to by any NAACP leader so far as I know.
Breitbart.tv FLASHBACK: Louis Farrakhan Declares War on ‘Negroes’ at 1997 NAACP Conference

And this morning, when Al Sharpton was denouncing the Tea Partiers and was repeatedly asked if the NAACP could produce video evidence of the charges they were making against it, he repeated ducked, dodged, weaved and refused to answer the question.

There is no standard that says one must provide video for something to be true. You'd better get a life with that one.

Louis F., is not the NAACP. Louis and the NAACP were not running candidates or positions for candidates were they?

Al Sharpton is not the NAACP.

I don't get what you are getting at with the comparison. What are you trying to say?

There is an ethical standard that when somebody trashes somebody they should have some evidence for it other than the word of a single witness or some photoshopped or planted images on a website.

 

[Dante]

The North Iowa Tea Party has removed a billboard comparing President Obama's socialism to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after holocaust survivor groups and many on the left objected, according to an Associated Press story for July 14.

Iowa Tea Party Group Removes Obama/Hitler Billboard

Bravo!

they took it down?

 

[Jeremy]

Are there racist elimints in the tea party , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the tea party support or condone racism , no.
Are there racist elimints in the NAACP , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the NAACP support or condone racism , no.

Racists are evrywhere people.

 

[washamericom]

Michelle Malkin You’ve got hate mail: Liberal racism gone wild!

i really like michelle... but these folks ...not so much

 

[Foxfyre]

This is the billboard:

Created by an Iowa Tea Party Group, The Billboard Has Drawn Criticism From Tea Partiers at a National Level (caption by CBS news)

And even CBS news got the story straight on this, which most of the leftwing blogs are not:

Billboard Linking Obama, Hitler Draws Complaints
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 13, 2010

(AP) A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism - even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels "Democratic Socialism," "National Socialism," and "Marxist Socialism."
Billboard Linking Obama, Hitler Draws Complaints - CBS News

Even much milder forms of this kind of stuff were not allowed at our local Tea Party events.

If the Left policed the hate speech and offensive from their side as well, we would have much more pleasant discourse throughout the country.

 

[Dante]

Well, there is a plethora of video like this that was featured at the 1997 NAACP convention and has never been condemned or objected to by any NAACP leader so far as I know.
Breitbart.tv FLASHBACK: Louis Farrakhan Declares War on ‘Negroes’ at 1997 NAACP Conference

And this morning, when Al Sharpton was denouncing the Tea Partiers and was repeatedly asked if the NAACP could produce video evidence of the charges they were making against it, he repeated ducked, dodged, weaved and refused to answer the question.

There is no standard that says one must provide video for something to be true. You'd better get a life with that one.

Louis F., is not the NAACP. Louis and the NAACP were not running candidates or positions for candidates were they?

Al Sharpton is not the NAACP.

I don't get what you are getting at with the comparison. What are you trying to say?

There is an ethical standard that when somebody trashes somebody they should have some evidence for it other than the word of a single witness or some photoshopped or planted images on a website.

funny, the right and tea party types said the niggar sign being held by a tea party activist who claims to be a founder (a tea party member longer than most) was bogus and photoshopped. yet we have the Texas group that asked him to leave for holding that sign or a sign like it as a source that he did indeed have sign(s) that read niggar.


Barney Frank had more than one witness who said a guy called him ******. yet tea party types insisted it didn't happen because there was no video.

we do know video shown by right wingers has been when other Congressmen were leaving not entering and that is when the claims of ****** were made.

why lie about the tape and when and where it was taken?

the site you link to here is the one that has apologized for using phony stuff on more than one occasion, yet tea party types and right wingers insist it is more reliable than ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo....

 

[Dante]

Are there racist elimints in the tea party , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the tea party support or condone racism , no.
Are there racist elimints in the NAACP , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the NAACP support or condone racism , no.

Racists are evrywhere people.

Did the Chairman of the GOP apologize for the GOP using a racist based strategy to win elections for decades? yes.

 

[Foxfyre]

There is no standard that says one must provide video for something to be true. You'd better get a life with that one.

Louis F., is not the NAACP. Louis and the NAACP were not running candidates or positions for candidates were they?

Al Sharpton is not the NAACP.

I don't get what you are getting at with the comparison. What are you trying to say?

There is an ethical standard that when somebody trashes somebody they should have some evidence for it other than the word of a single witness or some photoshopped or planted images on a website.

funny, the right and tea party types said the niggar sign being held by a tea party activist who claims to be a founder (a tea party member longer than most) was bogus and photoshopped. yet we have the Texas group that asked him to leave for holding that sign or a sign like it as a source that he did indeed have sign(s) that read niggar.


Barney Frank had more than one witness who said a guy called him ******. yet tea party types insisted it didn't happen because there was no video.

we do know video shown by right wingers has been when other Congressmen were leaving not entering and that is when the claims of ****** were made.

why lie about the tape and when and where it was taken?

the site you link to here is the one that has apologized for using phony stuff on more than one occasion, yet tea party types and right wingers insist it is more reliable than ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo....

If you can back that up with something more substantive than partisan leftwing blogs, we can discuss it.

Until then I will assume you're getting your information from partisan leftwing blogs.

 

[Sky Dancer]

NAACP Resolution: Colored People change minds about emancipation
Astonishing.

In every one of the dozens of interviews that I have done regarding the anti-Tea Party resolution passed by the NAACP I have brought up the absurdity of a group that calls blacks "Colored People" hurling charges of racism. Whats more, each interviewer has defended that phrase and expressed surprise that I would consider that phrase to be racist!

Apparently Colored People are an entirely new race of people and one to which the title applies. Here NAACP President Precious Ben Jealous explains to President Abraham Lincoln the reasons for the resolution in this newly discovered letter :

Dear Mr. Lincoln

We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!

In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the 'tea party movement'.

The tea party position to "end the bailouts" for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.

And the ridiculous idea of "reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government." What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!

The racist tea parties also demand that the government "stop the out of control spending." Again, they directly target Colored People. That means we Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government "stop raising our taxes." That is outrageous! How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?

Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.
Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP "Coloreds" In Online Screed | Political Correction

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I've posted this before, I'll keep posting it:

Now as far as this Mark Williams jaggoff goes, he probably is as bigotted as his words make him look. But even in this case, it's better to talk about why he looks that way and refrain from shouting "RACIST!" when referring to him.

They do have a tendency to get busted for their own dialoguehttp://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/williams-impossible-racism/.

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"Billy Roper is a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas and an unapologetic white nationalist. “I don’t want non-whites in my country in any form or fashion or any status,” he says.

Roper also is a tea party member who says he has been gathering support for his cause by attending tea party rallies. “We go to these tea parties all over the country,” Roper said. “We’re looking for the younger, potentially more radical people.”

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[Dante]

There is an ethical standard that when somebody trashes somebody they should have some evidence for it other than the word of a single witness or some photoshopped or planted images on a website.

funny, the right and tea party types said the niggar sign being held by a tea party activist who claims to be a founder (a tea party member longer than most) was bogus and photoshopped. yet we have the Texas group that asked him to leave for holding that sign or a sign like it as a source that he did indeed have sign(s) that read niggar.


Barney Frank had more than one witness who said a guy called him ******. yet tea party types insisted it didn't happen because there was no video.

we do know video shown by right wingers has been when other Congressmen were leaving not entering and that is when the claims of ****** were made.

why lie about the tape and when and where it was taken?

the site you link to here is the one that has apologized for using phony stuff on more than one occasion, yet tea party types and right wingers insist it is more reliable than ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WaPo....

If you can back that up with something more substantive than partisan leftwing blogs, we can discuss it.

Until then I will assume you're getting your information from partisan leftwing blogs.

You're projecting again. I do not hang out on blogs, partisan or not. I will link to a few as a resource, but never as the last word on anything.

What exactly? All of it?

 

[Foxfyre]

Media Matters is perhaps the least reliable source to go to for objective commentary or information about anything. It's a good place to go for flat out distortion and manipulation of perception though.

 

[Jeremy]

Are there racist elimints in the tea party , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the tea party support or condone racism , no.
Are there racist elimints in the NAACP , yes.
Do the vast majority of people in the NAACP support or condone racism , no.

Racists are evrywhere people.

Did the Chairman of the GOP apologize for the GOP using a racist based strategy to win elections for decades? yes.

Have the democrats appologized for the senate fillibuster, led by southern democrats, of the 1964 civil rights act.
...no.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I've posted this before, I'll keep posting it:

Now as far as this Mark Williams jaggoff goes, he probably is as bigotted as his words make him look. But even in this case, it's better to talk about why he looks that way and refrain from shouting "RACIST!" when referring to him.

They do have a tendency to get busted for their own dialoguehttp://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/williams-impossible-racism/.

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[Sky Dancer]

It's a complete reprint of the Tea Party guy's blog. He hung himself.