NBC Reporter To Black Republican: Are You Aligning Yourself With The "Racism" In The Tea Party?

RealClearPolitics ^ | May 7, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

[ianschwartz]

MSNBC HOST: Lt. Col., our time is limited, but my last question to you. The Tea Party has raised concerns that it may have, I guess, racism build in it. We have seen some racist signs at past events. People have said that is not apart of the Tea Party movement, but are African-American candidates aligning themselves with the Tea Party?

LT. COL. ALLEN WEST (RET.): Well, I don't think they're so much aligning themselves with the Tea Party. The principles and values I espouse: limited government, lower taxes, individual responsibility, accountability, liberty and honoring the traditions of our Constitutional Republic are connecting me with those grassroots Americans that attend Tea Party rallies. And I've spoken to four or five of those rallies and I've not seen any racist type of signs.

Lt. Col. Allen West, retired, is a Republican Florida Congressional candidate.

[gigster]

Exactly WHO is we?

Tonto: "Who is we, White Man?"

[blues_guitarist]

Yup, LOL!

[ArmyTeach]

Tough race for COL West. I hope he wins...

[Doogle]

who’s the clown host edging for a government job?

[I see my hands]

"(YAWN...)"

Fool.

[ArmyTeach]

Tough race for COL West. I hope he wins...

[ArmyTeach]

Worth repeating...;-)

[Doogle]

MSNBC HOST: Lt. Col., our time is limited, but my last question to you.

..old couric tactic...ask a question in such away as to make a statement, then be prepared to cut off guest because of time restraints. Actually the best answer Col West could have given is "Hell no I'm not aligning myself with racist, why do you think I'm running as a Republican"

[rock_lobsta]

NBC reporters are communists.....

Commies are right-wing wackos compared to reporters.

[Doogle]

It is the worst I have seen.

...because Ears is in trouble with the American people....his ignoring Tennessee is not being missed by large numbers

[Dawgreg]

OMG.......that was one of the funniest skits we’ver ever seen. :)

[Dawgreg]

They can’t produce a sign because it doesn’t exist......just like the spitting incident didn’t happen and John Lewis and his cronies weren’t called the N word! Bunch of ignorant, race-baiting motards. They make me sick!

[wac3rd]

I guess the La Raza signs, Che, Hitler, Reconquista signs were of “love”.

You f ing idiot Commies newspeople!

[bert]

They are fleeing the racist who run the Black community. The Black Caucus, the NAACLP, Reverend Wright, Michelle Obamma etc

[tillacum]

What is the name of the msnbc reporter who asked Col Allen that stupid question??

[avacado]

Yep! Which side incites racism, hate, and violence? It ain't the blue haired old ladies in the Tea Party that's for sure! They make me sick too! But we are going to make them sick this November and wipe them clean!

[Old Professer]

Prolepsis.

[TigersEye]

And I've spoken to four or five of those rallies and I've not seen any racist type of signs.

I have never seen one either. Can one of these communist hack MSM propagandists show us one?

[backhoe]

 

[popdonnelly]

Can we get this straight. The Tea Party movement is not a racist movement. It is not concerned with race, it makes no issue out of race, there is no race component in anything it espouses. The people obsessed with race are the opponents of the Tea Party movement. Those people are political hucksters.