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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 07:55 AM
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We are not racists. We just speak like them. A teabagger explains.
Edited on Thu Apr-22-10 07:57 AM by chelsea0011
...The 54-year-old Massachusetts native regularly lambastes President Obama as a communist bent on undermining the Constitution, and last week likened him to such dictators as Stalin and Pol Pot. On his blog and elsewhere, he rails against Obama as an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug,’’ and “racist in chief’’ for his comments about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home....

...Williams told the Tea Party rally on Boston Common on April 14 that political correctness was a “societal HIV’’ that had given the country “a full-blown case of AIDS.’’ The comments rippled across the blogosphere, and were seized on as proof the movement is hate-filled and bigoted.....

...In 2005, Williams stirred controversy when he said in a televised interview that residents of New Orleans “didn’t have the necessary brains and common sense to get out of the way’’ of Hurricane Katrina because they expected the government to “do absolutely everything for them.’’ He also said Kanye West, a rap star who had recently said that President George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people,’’ was a “Klansman in black face,’’ according to a CNN transcript...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/22/spouting_off_for_the_tea_party/?page=1

So says Mark Williams, a chairman for the The Teabagger Express...a man who leads. "nuff said.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 08:01 AM
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1. And the media just keeps on giving these assholes the platform to spew
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 08:18 AM
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2. Teh stupid, it burns. nt
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Brewman_Jax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 08:24 AM
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3. He had no trouble
when G.W.Bush* lied us into war and tanked the economy for his rich friends--but nothing to see here, move along. :puke:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 08:26 AM
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4. We should give Mark Williams all the rope he wants
He'll end up turning it into his own
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-22-10 09:31 AM
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5. one of my local papers' recent editorials-feel free to comment at site
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