On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem with that, Scott, is that there isn't a Tea Party as an > organized entity. Most of the time when a leader of some Tea Party > sort of group goes off the deep end, a bunch of people run in and say > "well, they aren't the *real* Tea Party".
As it should be. > The Tea Party Express, for > instance, does a lot of organizing and money donations (like the money > they just put into the Alaska Republican Primary in support of Palin's > favored candidate). They would seem to be fairly "main stream" Tea > Party. Yet the head of the Tea Party Express, Mike Williams, called > Obama an "Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug" and the Manhattan > Boro President a "Jewish Uncle Tom". After he wrote a rambling, racist > letter from "the Colored People" to President Lincoln praising > slavery, the National Tea Party Federation kicked out the Tea Party > Express group because they wouldn't fire Williams. Of course Williams > dismisses the National Tea Party Federation as a "fringe group" and > they go on their merry way involving themselves in political races > across the country. Williams quit. The article was in poor taste but it was satire mocking the NACCP which constantly attacked the tea party as racist. Funny how that worked out. As for Uncle Tom, we have a lot of Jews like that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
