Oh Allah! This presidentin' is hard!
Posted on 04/02/2010 3:30:38 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Party movement must be racist—after all, as Keith Olbermann has asked, “where are the people of color” at their rallies? Somehow, Sean Hannity managed to find one last night: Erik Rush, the columnist who first broke the story of Barack Obama’s old pal, Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
Wright-gate is familiar ground for Hannity, which, while valid and relevant, even many of his supporters are probably tired of revisiting, so let’s instead focus on this quote:
RUSH: The correspondence and so forth, it’s like, I’m a slime, ‘How can you get on TV with that horrible Hannity guy, um, those tea partiers, why are you supporting those tea partiers, they would just as soon lynch you as look at you,’ and, I mean, I went to tea parties and nobody, y’know [pauses to feel neck] nobody tried to lynch me or anything. I had a great time, met some great people…and, y’know, the emails come in…and most of them are pretty foul, vile, disgusting.
Indeed. And Rush isn’t the only one—last night, Bill O’Reilly interviewed black tea partier Kevin Jackson, who says he’s experienced “zero racial incidents,” despite having attended “dozens” of tea parties (then again, since when do firsthand witnesses matter in journalism?). In January, black conservative group Project 21 took Chris Matthews to task for calling the tea parties “monochromatic.” Columnist Herman Cain is also a tea party supporter Olby & friends evidently missed. I could go on and on and on and on, but we already know that not all black Americans count as “authentic” to the Left. And if you doubt that even the nuttier elements of the tea party movement transcend race, look no further than Alan Keyes.
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Well, I think Kenneth Gladney was at a Tea Party when SEIU thugs called him the N-word and beat him to the ground and kicked him.
I think they broke his jaw and sent him to the hospital.
Does he count?
I’ve got to get my black face to more Tea Party events and get in front of some cameras to help dispel the “monochromatic” myth.
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