TEA PARTY SPOKESMAN ON CNN: "Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP."

On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution that condemns the Tea Party movement, for its toleration of racism among its adherents. 


The next day, on CNN, a spokesman for the Tea Partyers responded, saying, "Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP." 


Invited to make clear that racists are not welcome in the Tea Party movement, spokesman Mark Williams, instead, said, NAACP members are  "a bunch of old fossils looking to make a buck off skin color." 

For details see The Huffington Post July 15, 2010 (there is video)
Source: Slatest July 15 2010


As a life member of the NAACP, I have somehow missed out. Checking my tax returns, I have discovered that I have failed to make a cent off skin color. 


Anyhow, I will watch media outlets today to see if other Tea Party reps jump to microphones to distance themselves from the comments of their associate, Mark Williams. 


Hopefully, Mr Williams himself can expand on his comments and explain how someone like me ought to be making "a buck off skin color." 


Like to know.   

LESTER MADDOX WAS RIGHT, MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS WRONG: According to Kentucky GOP Senate Candidate Rand Paul

Asked by Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) if private businesses have the right to refuse service to Black people, Kentucky GOP Senate Candidate Rand Paul stated, "Yes." (NY Times, "Tea Party Pick Causes Uproar on Civil Rights," May 21, 2010) 

Embraced by the Tea Party in Kentucky and nationally, Paul won the GOP senate primary in KY. 

During the campaign, Rand Paul also stated:

- the mandatory retirement age for Social Security ought to be raised to 70

- the Americans with Disabilities Act (signed into law by President George H.W. Bush) is probably illegal.

So, according to GOP / Tea Party Candidate Rand Paul:

1. Americans ought to be required to work to age 70

2. businesses do not have to accommodate employees or customers with disabilities

3. Lester Maddox was right and Martin Luther King, Jr was wrong.

That's three strikes - in Kentucky and everywhere. 

Tea Party Backed NC Candidate: Claims to be the Messiah, Yet Failed to Raise a Dead Person

Is it asking too much of the Messiah to pay child support? 


Maybe, but it ought to be part of that job description to be able to raise the dead.


Tim D'Annunzio is running for Congress in North Carolina and is ahead in the polls. 


Tim D'Annunzio:


- has claimed to be the Messiah


- once traveled to New Jersey to raise his stepfather from the dead


- stated his belief that God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland


- said he had found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona


- has been treated by a doctor for heroin dependence


- doesn't pay child support.


NOTE: Tim has been endorsed by the Tea Party Movement.     


NOTE 2: I got this from the Slatest May 25 2010, who got some of it from the Associated Press. 


And now you get it from me. 

“If you’re looking for a handout, you’re in the wrong end of town.”

At a recent anti-health-care-reform Tea Party protest in Columbus Ohio, a man was sitting on the ground with a sign that said he had Parkinson’s disease. A Tea Partier leaned over him and said, "If you’re looking for a handout, you’re in the wrong end of town.”

Bob Herbert, Op-Ed Columnist

New York Times

March 23, 2010