Posted by Dana Loesch Oct 20th 2010 at 8:13 am in MSNBC, Mainstream Media, NBC, journalism, media biasThe NAACP is back again with yet another attempt to defame and smear the multicultural tea party movement.
Strike 1: July 2010 the NAACP’s demand for tea party racism repudiation fell flat when video emerged the day before showing an NAACP press conference where the victim of a racially-motivated crime was mocked, called an “uncle Tom,” slurred, and had his melanin content questioned.
NAACP “proof” of tea party extremism:
Still no word from the NAACP on BushHitler.
STRIKE 3: The NAACP realized their mistake with the last statement and this time brought in the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. The IREHR is a group comprised of liberal journalists and activists who are led by ideology and seek to use their bias against conservatives as a fulcrum to further push apart the country. I would bet that most – I really believe all but I’m being generous – have never been to a tea party event like UCLA grad student Emily Ekins.
Ekins completed a study on racism and the tea party for her dissertation and took hundreds of photos at various rallies. More:
Ekins set out to photograph every single poster and sign at the 9/12 Taypayer March on Washington in September to see if the tens of thousands of Americans that make up the Tea Party movement are really running on racism.Mediate scoffs but I suppose they put greater value on a group of leftists who, in keeping with trend, have never attended a tea party but want to use partisan opinion as fact.
After tediously combing through the crowd and over 250 photographs later, Ekins discovered, based on the signs, that the claims of rampant racism simply weren’t true. “Over 50 percent were about limited government and lower spending, and only about 6 percent were controversial in nature,” Ekins told Fox News.
And of the 6 percent that were controversial, Ekins said that didn’t mean racist. “If it was related to outsider politics, an ‘us versus them’ message, anything about Islam, or the mosque in New York, anything that could be construed as controversial then I included it.”
The IREHR decided upon bigotry as a tactic against people who think differently than they do some time ago. This is what a group of people who deem themselves bipartisan enough to conduct a study on a group they consider to be their opposition said back in February 2009:
Revolt was in the air at the Tea Party Nation Convention, much of which was broadcast live on CSPAN. Nashville talk show host Phil Valentine warmed up the crowd with a shared sentiment, “we are angry and we are afraid.”More
The State of White Nationalism: The Year 2009 in ReviewAnd this:
A militia revival, as noted by the Southern Poverty Law Center and others, did start during the last year. The militia movement was a ubiquitous feature of the white supremacist landscape throughout the mid-1990s, but faded after the Clinton administration cracked down hard in its last years.
Yes, I remember that when a far-left “reporter” asked the SPLC to comment on local television if they thought that I and St. Louis Tea Party Co-Founder Bill Hennessy were Klansmen because of our belief in more individual liberty.
You get the idea.
In St. Louis the local NAACP sent out a press release – yes, the same NAACP who publicly mocked and used slurs against Kenneth Gladney, the man beaten in the parking lot of a Russ Carnahan townhall by SEIU workers (Kelly Owens was punched in the face, police witnesses, on camera, by a woman with SEIU) and essentially stated at their press conference that Gladney wasn’t black enough for the NAACP’s help.
The release:
NAACP To Release Report Highlighting Troubling ties to
racist and anti immigrant groups in Tea Party RanksNews conferences being held in over 15 statesReport includes interactive maps showing Tea Party strength in states
WASHINGTON, DC – The NAACP will release a report by the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights which, details various associations between Tea Party organizations and acknowledged hate groups in the United States (teapartynationalism.com or NAACP.org).
The report comes a few days after the NAACP board ratified a resolution calling on the Tea Party to repudiate racist elements within its ranks along with a resolution calling for civility in the political discourse. Those resolutions are part of nearly 80 others on jobs, education and climate change.
The national attention sparked by NAACP call this summer for the Tea Party to repudiate racist elements within the group, inspired the Tea Party leadership to purge some outspoken racist elements including Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams well known for racist rants.
The new report details ongoing links between Tea Party organizations and various white supremacist groups, anti-immigrant organizations, and independent militias. In addition, five of the six groups are headed by “birthers,” people who deny President Obama’s citizenship.
“These groups and individuals are out there, and we ignore them at our own peril,” stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “They are speaking at Tea Party events, recruiting at rallies and in some cases remain in the Tea Party leadership itself. The danger is not that the majority of Tea Party members share their views, but that left unchecked, these extremists might indirectly influence the direction of the Tea Party and therefore the direction of our country: moving it backward and not forward.”
The report analyzes each of the six most active Tea Party organizations. Drawing from Tea Party literature and websites, as well as original statistical analysis, the authors provide demographic information and specific instances of racist ties. It also offers interactive maps showing where Tea Party membership is located within the United States.
It outlines instances of intolerance and extremism. An addendum details local Tea party leaders who have direct ties to white supremacist groups.
The TeaParty.org faction is led by the executive director of the Minuteman Project, a nativist organization that has in the past been associated with the murder of migrant Mexican workers as part of its vigilante “border operations”. Roan Garcia-Quintana, “advisor and media spokesman” for the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party and member of ResistNet, also serves on the National Board of Directors of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC), the lineal descendent of the Council of White Citizens. In Texas, Wood County Tea Party leader Karen Pack was once listed as an “official supporter” of Thom Robb’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a modern-day white supremacist organization.It was already parroted as a legitimate study by MSNBC’s David Gregory.
The head of the group who completed the slanted study, Devin Burhart, was in Nashville for the Tea Party Convention and careful to Tweet only that which fit his bias:
Actually, Farah got massive heat for it. But see, conservatives are self-policing whereas far left groups like the NAACP are not.
The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they bear for the plantation politics Democrats as “white nationalists.” Instead of celebrating the historical progress that black conservatives (and women) have made in successful primary bids across the country, they denigrate them, betraying the purpose their group formed to serve. Instead of focusing on educational inequality at the hands of a party which killed vouchers and equal opportunity education – a party that they serve – instead of asking why their government is using their community in ways that negatively impact their community, they target a group of free-thinking people of all races, political mindsets, and religions, people bound together by a desire for more government accountability. A group with which they have more in common than they think, a realization the DNC works overtime to obfuscate.
In the meantime one of the greatest acts of actual racism occurred and they mock the victim. Two victims are still waiting for their day in court. We have brilliant black leaders like Lt. Col. Allen West, Charles Lollar, and Cedra Crenshaw, who had to fight the white, patriarchal Chicago machine to get on the ballot after they pulled every trick in the book to throw her off.
Ben Jealous didn’t come to Cedra Crenshaw’s aid. Ben Jealous didn’t help Kenneth Gladney. Ben Jealous wasn’t there to stick up for equality at 8/28 when the crowd witnessed a group of white liberal rabble-rousers approach a group of black Republicans, including activist Michael Warns, and tell them that what they [Warns's group] do “disgusts them.” Not that they need them to, though. Anyone who has seen the likes of Andre Harper, Deneen Borelli, 0r Sonnie Johnson stand up against institutionalized discrimination knows that black conservatives don’t need the NAACP to pretend to rescue them.
If actual victims of discrimination had to wait on the NAACP to see them to justice they would never get help.
We’ll have further developments on this story.
*UPDATE #1: Reboot Congress notes that in particular, the NAACP’s Missouri chapter singles out the St. Louis Tea Party as hating poor people and being “mean-spirited.” RC writes:
Oddly, there’s no mention of the St. Louis Tea Party’s support of Circle of Concern and Operation Food Search. That’s what we call selective reporting. Conservatives do resent the rampant vote buying with social programs and the fraud in the system that goes unaudited. The left would never ignore a conflict of interest between monied corporate interests and the voters, so why do they ignore the conflict of interest between public largess and the welfare recipients that receive it?UPDATE #2: In Georgia, the NAACP and tea party is working together.
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