Tea Party Federation kicks out Williams over blog post

[swag]

Source: CNN

The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that represents the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled conservative commentator Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post he wrote, federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday.

Appearing on the CBS program "Face the Nation," Webb said that Williams and the Tea Party Express -- which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement -- no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," Webb said of the blog post by Williams that satirized a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

Webb called the blog post "clearly offensive."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/18/tea.party.imbroglio/?hpt=T2

[Joe Bacon]

1. They'll be back in a week or 2

And I'm sure our Whore Press will keep their pal Mark on the Glass Teat for all to see...

[Enrique]

2. exactly what the NAACP resolution asked for

this is so beautiful. The NAACP is 100% vindicated for their resolution by this.

[jimmie]

10. !100 % True

except they'll never admit it.

[47of74]

3. Too little, too fucking late

And anyone who still believes the tea party is not racist should come see me because I have the following for sale;

[Arkana]

4. Ha! No kidding.

The teabaggers didn't expel Williams and the Teatard Express because they disagreed with his racist screed--they did it because they hoped it would bury the story.

Once the cameras are off, I expect Williams will be hobnobbing with them once again.

[TheEuclideanOne]

19. So true. It is similar to the reason they now kick out White Supremecists from Tea Parties

It is not as if they disagree with their racial hatred, definitely not, they just don't like the bad press. Until people started publicizing all of the racists signs, they were just happy as a clam. Let me guess, they suddenly decided that they were against racism only AFTER stories started breaking about how racist they were? If you are a KKK member on Monday and show up without your white robes on tuesday, it doesn't change who you are on tuesday.

[T Wolf]

23. Hell. If you believe the TPers aren't racist, you'd buy THIS bridge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7GvGqJquCU

[beac]

5. The name of the link gave me a chuckle...

How many Teabaggers do you think know what "imbroglio" means? :rofl:

[Plucketeer]

9. Imbroglio???

Isn't that a synonym for ClusterFox???

[Enrique]

11. duh

everyone knows it's a kind of pasta.

[Alcibiades]

18. Pasta? What's that?

Noodles. Pasta's too highfalutin.

[Rozlee]

6. Har, hoisted by their own petards.

What's so unbelievable is that so many of them can claim that they're not racist because they don't even know the definition of the word. As long as they're not hanging a black person from the nearest cottonwood, they can say with a totally straight face, "oh, I'm not a racist." In the meantime, they're screaming 24/7 over two New Black Panthers intimidating people in a voting booth as if terrified that black hordes are about to descend on them.

I'm a member of LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens). Back in the 1980s, we lobbied hard in San Antonio to pass Cool Schools, a tax initiative to provide air conditioning for schools in poor parts of San Antonio where the tax base was pretty low due to low property values and the preponderance of rentals from slum landlords who also paid low property taxes. The lack of air conditioning in 100 degree weather in schools in San Antonio--some of them in classrooms in small trailer constructed buildings--was horrendous. A wealthy group of San Antonians calling themselves the Homeowners Taxpayer's Association (HTA)rose aggressively against us, even though it would only have added fifty cents a month to their taxes. I remember their signs featuring hispanics with sombreros sleeping under cactuses saying 'Get a job and pay your own damn taxes!' and blacks driving cadillacs saying 'Get off welfare and get a job!' The HTA is still around today and calls LULAC a racist organization too. I recently had a guy whose father is in the HTA tell me he was rejected from San Antonio College--a junior college--because of quotas. He said a minority sponsored by LULAC that got a lower SAT than he did got his slot. I laughed in his face. SAC is dragging people in off the streets because they want students to fill in their classes. They have absolutely no quota system. If SAC rejected him, it was because he made a 4 on his SATs--a total possibility.

[SILVER__FOX52]

7. The tea baggers..............

are a " False Flag " operation. Their genesis is/was the Rich/Corporate Republicans trying to shed their association with the Bush administration, disasters. The only thing that, in fact, are grass roots about these so-called tea baggers, is their racism. Kind of Odd, isn't it?

[Iliyah]

8. It doesn't

matter, the tea baggers have 100s who will take his place. And yes they are racist. And when I see blacks defending them I just shake my head in amaze in how brainwashed they are, so sad.

[SharksBreath]

21. Every time I see a Black republican I think of Clayton Bigsby.

The Blind Black Leader of the White Supremacist Movement.

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=24400&title=frontline-clayton-bigsby

Dave Chappelle is a genius.

[aquart]

12. Not exactly the speediest response I've ever seen.

[MilesColtrane]

13. Tea Baggers to Mark Williams, "We'll have no OVERT racism in our party."

"Everybody knows to keep it on the QT."

[TheEuclideanOne]

20. EXACTLY!

[DailyGrind51]

14. This demonstrates their vulnerability to criticism!

[Enthusiast]

15. The Tea Party is now racist free!

I'm so happy to hear it! Yippie! Yahoo! Yay!

[Hamlette]

16. I want to hear the back story on why the whole Tea Party Express and not just Williams

and suffice it to say, I'm disappointed he's gone. He was so dreadful. From the first time I heard him, I remembered his name and face and thought "that's one fucked up jerk, give him a mic and let him keep saying Macaca."

[secondwind]

17. What took them so long???!!!?! n/t

[besdayz]

22. a

this entire democrats getting crushed and republicans get glory is starting to remind me of Rocky IV

when you awaken the beast, you get your azz beat down in the end....


ironic though how the republicans are the communists in that analogy.....\

[Turborama]

24. Media Matters: Why is CNN still allowing Mark Williams on its network?

Very good question asked in detail here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007180010

[burnsei sensei]

25. Signs caricaturing Obama as Hitler,

the Joker?
They'll never remove the racism from their ranks or from their rhetoric!
Never! All one needs to do is look at photographs of the demonstrations and the indictment is written and sealed.
The Tea Party is the last haven for racial nationalism.