Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 3, 2010
The establishment is desperate to discredit the Tea Party movement. In order to accomplish this objective, it will twist the truth and invent hatred and racism where none exists.
Example du jour: Bob Cessa over at the Huffington Post.
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| Dale Robertson was booted out of a Tea Party event for his offensive sign. | |
In a blog post Mr. Cessa claims the Tea Party movement is all about racism. He writes that “when you strip away all of the rage, all of the nonsensical loud noises and all of the contradictions, all that’s left is race. The tea party is almost entirely about race.”
In order to make his point, Cessa points to Dale Robertson, a man he fallaciously claims is some kind of mucky-muck in the Tea Party movement.
Robertson was photographed back in February, 2009, at a Tea Party rally toting a placed that read: “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.”
Josh Parker of the Houston Tea Party Society told The Washington Independent that Robertson was booted out of the event for the offensive sign. Cessa, however, does not mention this.
As it turns out, Mr. Robertson is not affiliated with any of the Tea Party organizations in Texas or anywhere else.
Felicia Cravens, writing for the Houston Tea Party Society, explains that Robertson has no affiliation with her group. “A search on Google yields plenty of information about Mr. Robertson, and a search of the various leadership teams among legitimate national tea party organizations show him nowhere to be found,” she explains.
In other words, Robertson is either a poseur or an operative tasked with making the Tea Party look like a class reunion of Ku Klux Klan members.
Next, Cessa reveals his ignorance of the Tea Party movement. He tags it as a spin-off of the neocon Republican party and its fellow travelers in talk radio:
The tea party is an extension of talk radio. It’s an extension of Fox News Channel. It’s an extension of the southern faction of the Republican Party — the faction that gave us the Southern Strategy, the Willie Horton ad, the White Hands ad and the racially divisive politics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. It’s an extension of the race-baiting and, often, the outright racism evident in all of those conservative spheres.
In fact, the Tea Party concept was invented by Libertarians, not the Republican party, although Republican neocons have since hijacked the concept and declared it their own.
“The Libertarian Party of Illinois got the idea to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax ‘Boston Tea Party’ in Chicago way back in December of 2008. On February 10, 2009 they started a Facebook page and began promoting the website throughout the Illinois media,” writes Donny Ferguson of the Libertarian National Committee.
The establishment hijacking of the Tea Party is common knowledge. Even the liberal website Raw Story wrote about it in December, 2009. MSNBC stalwart Rachel Maddow talked about it several times on her show. “People are trying to do the right thing, but GOP organizations and campaigns are effectively taking over the Tea Party movement in some places in the country,” Stephen Gordon told Maddow.
Full story HERE
