From: Alan Grayson <alangrayson@graysonforcongress.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 5:50 pm
Subject: My Opponent is a Racist ... and Proud of It!
Sent: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 5:50 pm
Subject: My Opponent is a Racist ... and Proud of It!
Dear Carol,
My opponent, Dan Fanelli, thinks that only brown people should have to pass through security at the airports. Because all terrorists are brown people.
I'm not making this up. If you don't believe me, see for yourself (as 150,000 others have). If you can stomach it:
Apparently, Dan Fanelli is running against me because I'm not racist.
Fanelli's "racist madness" was reported on MSNBC, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, CBS, and Talking Points Memo. You can watch the ad on Keith Olbermann's show, which dedicated a whole segment to Fanelli.
But let's go through some pictures together, so Dan Fanelli can see some different faces of terrorism.
Does THIS look like a terrorist?
That's Timothy McVeigh.
Does THIS look like a terrorist?
That's Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn.
Does THIS look like a terrorist?
That's white supremacist Daniel Cowart, who conspired to kill President Obama.
Does THIS look like a terrorist?
That's Jeff Berry of the KKK.
Terrorists come in all colors, shapes, sizes, and even genders. But Fanelli isn't really talking about terrorism. What Fanelli and his Republican bigot friends are saying is that American citizenship comes in two versions: white and nonwhite. That's why they want to put through laws that would require every single person to carry proof of citizenship, or risk arrest. Because they want to degrade and put down everyone who isn't just like them.
I have news for them. America is a nation, not a tribe.
This impulse on the right toward racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia keeps popping up over and over again. Just yesterday, "Dr. Laura" scolded a black woman, on the air, for marrying a white man. And then the good doctor used the N-word, on the air, again and again. This is what I had to say about it, on CNN last night:
Over the next few days, as we move closer to our MoneyBomb on August 23, I'll introduce you to the candidates who are running against me. A parade of the sick and twisted. And in the end, on Nov. 2, it will be me, or one of them.
So help me stay in office.
And remember: America is the land of the free. America is the home of the brave. America is not the land of 'show me your papers.' Not as long as I'm in Congress.
Truth,
Alan Grayson
Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson