Guess Who Came to the Palin Rally? White Supremicist Radio 'Political Cesspool' & more -VIDEO

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-30/guess-who-came-to-the-palin-rally/

More evidence the fringe right is using Obama resentment for its political gain.

On Wednesday, I reported for The Daily Beast that key leaders of the white supremacist movement are seeking new opportunities to infiltrate and influence the political mainstream, particularly within the Republican base. An exclusive new video, shown here for the first time, offers new evidence of their strategic push.

In the video, shot by an amateur videographer who provided me exclusive access to his footage, an unidentified staffer from one of the country’s most popular white supremacist radio programs, The Political Cesspool, is seen promoting his show’s website at an October 13 rally for Sarah Palin in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Just feet away, Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, hands out fliers and recruits volunteers to canvas for McCain-Palin.

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Though neither Political Cesspool nor Randall Terry have any known contact with the McCain-Palin campaign, their presence at the recent Palin rally presents one of the clearest portraits yet of the far right’s attempts to exploit the Republican base’s anti-Obama resentment for organizational gain.

According to its "Statement of Principles," the Political Cesspool "represent{s} a philosophy that is pro-White" and which "heartily endorse{s} and accept{s} as our own, the founding tenets of the Council of Conservative Citizens {CCC}," America’s largest white supremacist group. A 2007 article in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report noted that, “The Political Cesspool' in the past two years has become the primary radio nexus of hate in America.”

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In the footage, Randall Terry is seen nearby shouting into a megaphone, “We must do whatever it takes to stop Obama!” A Terry associate wearing a Palin t-shirt hands out fliers urging anti-abortion advocates to organize against Obama’s election. While the Political Cesspool organizer expresses no support for McCain-Palin, and seems reluctant to divulge his show’s racist politics, Terry seems openly supportive of the McCain-Palin campaign.

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[patrice]

1. so, what's with the lines-through this?

[Shallah Kali]

3. The [ ] used in the original post that I cut & pasted caused the lines

I just changed them to {} to get rid of the lines.

[patrice]

4. k

Thanks for the answer; I'll try to remember that!

[LaurenG]

2. This just sounds like McCains base to me.

Yuck!