MSNBC Host Accuses Tea Party Organizer of Including People who Want to 'Kill Blacks and Jews'

NewsBusters ^ | March 2, 2010 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

You almost need a flak jacket to go on an MSNBC show these days - at least judging by the rapid fire attacks displayed on the March 2 "The Dylan Ratigan Show."

Either host Dylan Ratigan was trying to play to MSNBC's rabid liberal audience or he really has it in for the Tea Party movement based on some exaggerated notion it is nothing but hate and fear mongers. In an interview with Mark Williams, a conservative talk radio host and sometimes spokesman for the Tea Party Express, Ratigan asked Williams what he was doing to separate his legitimate effort from radical fringe elements in American political culture.

"Mark, how do you draw the bright line between the very admirable and understandable principles that are advocated by so many in the Tea Party as it pertains to a Constitutional definition of a democracy, separation of things like banking and investing, church and - I mean, you go to all these things, and those who would choose a more radicalized view or racist view and hide, if you will, inside of the Tea Party umbrella?" Ratigan said.

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[Rufus2007]

This is outrageous.

[Sioux-san]

I’ll tell you what’s outrageous - giving these fools any audience at all. And that includes going on their shows. Why cooperate with their insanity???? I just don’t get it.

[BuffaloJack]

I’d bet the jerk is expressing his own secret fantasy and blaming it on the patriots of the Tea Party.
It’s what socialists do.

[Las Vegas Ron]

For the last two days I've tried to go to Newsbusters and get redirected to a Dell link.

Is anyone else having this problem?

[fr_freak]

Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com

[Las Vegas Ron]

Thanks.

I did manage to get in a different way.

No words on the clip, just shaking my head. Damn.

[oyez]

Socialists practice the Socialist religion. They take so much of this personally. Anybody that speaks against them is guilty of blasphemy.

[Spike Knotts]

Funny how no one is ever accused of wanting to kill Whites.

[cripplecreek]

Guess I’ll have to make a “Kill Whitey” sign for the next tea party.

[chainsaw]

MSNBC Host Accuses Tea Party Organizer of Including People who Want to ‘Kill Blacks and Jews’

They have it all wrong. They just want to kill white media talking heads.

[donna]

He should talk to Obama’s good friend, Bill Ayers.

[windsorknot]

Death to stupidity!

[jersey117]

The Tea Party is the PEOPLE. If the left wants to make the tea party it’s enemy - they lose. Obama’s ratings are in the tank. The people figured out his game and want no part of it. They can make it about race if they want. I can name plenty of non-socialist black people I’d rather see in the White House. It’s not about the color black. It’s about the color red.

[kempster]

This would be really serious if anyone was watching MSNBC!

[TLI]

Ratigan said. "What confuses me about the Tea Party if the Tea Party's willingness to accept the wing-nuts without defining more crisply what the Tea Party's agenda is relative to those who just want to kill black people, for instance."

Conservative Lawyers UP!

Time to finance The Tea Party with the libs MONEY!

[icwhatudo]

Stuff like that is so over the top it makes even liberals start to admit that MSNBC is a joke.

[nutmeg]

WOW... check this out, FRiends!

[MichiganConservative]

What is a Dylan Ratigan?

[philetus]

That would be funny and the MSM wouldn’t know what to do.

[AtlasStalled]

Dylan’s had his panties all in a bunch ever since the Dallas, Texas Tea Party pointed out that it has more diversity on its three-member steering committee than in the entire MSNBC lineup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdPTpOyUk4