[H/t David]
Well, now that Mark Williams dropped the mask and revealed the rotten racist core of the Tea Party movement's authoritarian base, the movement's defenders have been scrambling to distance themselves from him.
So today on Face the Nation, one of the movement's only black spokesmen -- David Webb of the National Tea Party Foundation -- and announced that Williams and his Tea Party Express have been "expelled" from their would-be umbrella organization:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Well, it do-- it does seem to me that-- that-- that part of what this is about is--is he’s saying to you, you really need to police your-- your organization. And that some of these signs we’ve seen them that have shown up at some of these parties really are objectionable. What are you doing about that?
DAVID WEBB: Well-- well, we have it and that’s a very good question. We, in the last twenty-four hours have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote which, he, I guess, may have considered satire but which was clearly offensive. And that is what we do--self-policing is the right and the responsibility of any movement or organization. I denounce any acts that I see many leaders do and for Mister Jealous, to say that these elements, when millions have been out there, represent the Tea Party is blatantly false and they’re simply playing the race card.
It's hard to say just how much pull the NTPF actually has. As you can see from their press release announcing their formation last April, the outfit comprises most of the movement's heavy hitters -- which included the Tea Party Express folks.
Note that Fox particularly promoted the Tea Party Express when it was organizing that bus tour in the runup to Glenn Beck's "912 March on Washington", though CNN had a hand in it too. Funny how the Williams story is getting relatively little play there, isn't it?
Fact is, the Tea Parties can't just denounce Williams and pretend that they haven't been playing the "race card" all along. And now the NAACP is playing that card -- for calling them out? Just more up-is-down Planet Bizarro garbage from these folks.
So even the teabaggers have their own version of a milquetoast like michael steel to funkify their imagge?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Hahahah. Ya.
now back to the same as it ever was.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"UNBELIEVABLE!!!"
with a straight face.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Dare we say that this so-called 'roots' movement of the Teabaggers is coming apart at the seams?
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
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“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
you'll notice that Astroturf is not guaranteed to grow under all conditions.
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repeating yourself. Are you a little hung over today?
It posts, then about 30 sec later, the 'new comments' box appears with my name in it. I'm thinking it's a virus caused by humoring trolls...
And my being hungover is a totally separate issue ;)
[It's not a virus, fastfeat. It's a hiccup in the WorldWideWeb- a faulty router somewhere in the tubes. Contact your ISP and let them know. Site Monitor]
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Troll herpes responds to treatment much better than Verizon does to inquiries... (This is the only site at which I've had this occur, FWIW.)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
too!!!
Some stuff you can't make up!
Expelling the Tea Party Express from the National Tea Party for racism is like going down to Grand Isle, LA, picking up a tar ball, putting it in a trash bag then declaring that the Gulf of Mexico is clean.
Racists have always found a happy home within the Republican Party, even if they've been living under the stairs.
how can a self-respecting black person even try to defent williams and the racists within the organization? unless of course, you are not self-respecting. how do you defend williams comments, the signs, and their attitudes? talk about low self esteem
only if you have qualified for "House Negro" or "Lawn Jockey" status.
No self-respecting AA would be caught admitting membership in this racist tripe.
Firstly, "Tea party" is such an effing lame name. "Tea party express" is even worse. Now that's off my chest, we've seen the rallies and the signs and BAGGERS are racist to the core. It's a modern day KKK, for average Americans to express their racism as a crowd.
far left loon >.<
behind a thin veneer
all the more grotesque people
a smug racist is still a racist.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
look as stoopid as they are pitiful. (not that I'd pity them in the slightest.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Yeah, just saw it. He'd been scheduled for tonight, but canceled due to a sudden change in his schedule. But they've contacted him, will do ANYTHING to get him on to spew some more. Please, Mark, Call In. Please! We'll rearrange our schedule for you.
I don't know which is worse. Williams, or the clowns in the media who want to give him a megaphone.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
OH, no. There's no racism here!
After Mr. Jealous, and the NAACP, object to the racism displayed at Teabagger rallies, Webb claims that Mark Williams, their RACIST leader, wrote a "satire."
"Satire" uses humor and ridicule to move society FORWARD by pointing out obvious inconsistencies and prejudices, not BACKWARDS to the 1850's using blatant racist statements that would make George Wallace look at you and say, "Hey, you stupid MFer, you're making all of the rest of us look bad."
Kudo's to this Williams creep for making Wallace, David Duke and hundreds of other open racists look SUBTLE by comparison.
Mark Williams. Come to some of the neighborhoods in NYC I grew up in, or to Philly, where I lived for a time, and let people know how you really feel. If you do, you might want to steal a line from that racist stereotype "Steppin' Fetchit." I believe the line was, "Feet's don't fail me now!!!"
Now, how long before FOX or CNN hires this MFing racist asshole?
5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
tomorrow.
(even money says so.)
Some stuff you can't make up!
I wonder how it feels to be the one token minority in a Republican organization. I know what it feels like to be a token gay with people going out of their way to "be open-minded."
far left loon >.<
except the money that is paid to them for being sell-outs.
made larger than life by media coverage. Bunch of sore losers who cannot move on after the election.
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
Yup. This isn’t a political party. The Unity Party of America is more organized, and no one has ever heard of them. The Tea Party is nothing more than a social outlet for angry (mostly white) people. They are like a riot: under the right conditions you can start one – but you can’t control it, and it is always destructive.
You typed everything in caps. You're going to get deleted for violating terms.
Isn't the Tea Party Express underwritten by one or more corporations? Didn't they provide buses, etc. for some of those rallies? They're about as grassroots as my dogs turds.
The Tea Party Express is the California GOP in a teabag. Sal Russo, PR hack and general all around douche is the front for it, but the players all come from the Recall Gray Davis (Issa) group and hail all the way back to the Prop 13 Jarvis group.
There is nothing remotely grass roots about them.
I believe they are heavily funded by powerful lobbyists, like Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity.
An article entitled "Confessions of a Tea Party Patriot" explains that tea party strategy meetings are held in luxury hotels, and are headed by powerful, rich, elite people- hardly the working class grassroots effort that they want people to believe.
by GOP members has al-qaeda #2 man in the lead of Bushie Tea Losers.
...for mentioning that CNN was a major facilitator of the Teabaggers' Express. I remember Tony Harris getting all ga-ga about how cool the bus was, and gushing about the significance of the tour.
Tony Harris's histrionics make me sick.
the Tea BAGGERS can party on all they like, and try and project their racism on others, but no thinking person is buying their TeaBAGGER bullshit.
Does this mean Sarah Palin has to catch a cab now?
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
who was the decision maker who said he had to go, Dick Armey?
likely
Some stuff you can't make up!
It is disturbing how the media finds a Black tea party member to speak for that group.
Dick Armey and Sarah palin are the leaders of the tea party.
I wondered how they found one that looked darker than Jealous.
But they got some great names, unlike the NAACP. Benny Jealous – that’s just weak. Now Mike Steele, that’s a name. Like a cross between Remington Steele and Mike Hammer; forceful, masculine, authoritative. David Webb isn’t a bad name, better then Benny Jealous. Where do they find all those wonderful names?
Dick Armey, on the other hand...
I thought "exotic" people made Sarah Palin nervous?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YwskdJAIQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
With their lack of ethics and integrity anything goes, tokenism, racism, false equivalencies---you name it. So long as they can cash in and appease their golden calf stakeholders all is well.
They are just as scummy as this Tea Party dupe who does the bidding of professional haters.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
People wouldn't have a golden calf if they stood closer to the toilet.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Rush Limbaugh is their leader, just like he leads the GOBP.
Now they are one and the same - no difference between the Tea Party members and Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John Boehner or Jim DeMint.
Tea partiers are the reincarnation of PUMAs. Sore losers who can't deal with the idea of a black president.
I can't wait for them to be history like the PUMAs.
when are they going to on the MSM and all the cable shows and denounce the racists?
!
Some stuff you can't make up!
They're going to give the "I'm sorry IF YOU WERE OFFENDED" schpiel.
We don't stand a chance as a civilized nation as long as we have the down right Evil Fox News, Teabaggers, and Republican/Conservatives, etc. , promoting their many facets of Racial, Political, and Religious Bigotry that spews Hate, Fear, Lies, and Violence against our fellow Americans.
"We CLEARLY expelled this guy because of his racism. But for people to suggest that there's racism, that's playing the race card."
So... uh... I guess, if I can get this correctly... even though they said it's impossible for the tea party to be racist, and that all racists inside the tea party are actually liberal plants, they acknowledge that some of them are racist, but no one outside of the tea party is ALLOWED to say it's racism, because that would be overly-sensitive about racism.
I'd say this makes exactly as much sense as some of their other policy proposals.
Why has no one challenged the media on trotting out David Webb who did not exist as a TEA party leader before this weekend? Is he the Micheal Steele of the TEA party now? America needs to have a real discussion on the racial divide and these made up leaders only serve the media to avoid the conversation.
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