Michelle Malkin » Tea Party Smear Watch: The Race Card

Tea Party Smear Watch: The Race Card

By Michelle Malkin • April 13, 2009 01:23 PM

There’s a famous quotation often attributed to Gandhi that goes like this: “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” After “then they ridicule you” I would add:

“Then they smear you.”

As I warned last week, the smear campaign against the Tea Party movement has swung into full gear. Desperate always reaps stupid, as Dave Ramsey says. Desperate Tea Party bashers have stupidly lurched from “It’s a CNBC conspiracy” to “It’s a Fox News conspiracy” without batting an eye.

On Fox News, smear merchant Geraldo Rivera bashed the Tea Party movement because he’s “never seen any people of color” at the protests — a line of attack being plied on left-wing blogs (and even by a purported conservative blog). Tea Party organizer and Top Conservatives on Twitter Michael P. Leahy politely laid the smack down on Geraldo (watch here). But it’s not going to stop the reality-challenged Rivera from repeating the attack. (Psst, Geraldo: Meet Lloyd Marcus).

Of course, any people of color Geraldo and his bean-counters do admit to seeing they will dismiss as white.

And then there’s this typical e-mail I got this morning from “sammygeo1@yahoo.com:”

Michelle Malkin, you look like a damn fool. The only Jap at those tea parties. Go somewhere and sit your stupid ass down.

It’s telling how bitterly the self-proclaimed post-racialists keep fixating on the race of Tea Party protesters as some sort of Q.E.D. indictment of the protests.

Do they really want to play that game? Shall we start fixating on the lack of diversity at ACORN foreclosure mob protests?

Shamnesty demonstrations?

Lily-white-dominated Hollywood liberal fund-raisers or MSM boards of directors?

No, we shall not. The only demographic breakdown we shall mention is the one showing that the Left’s protests this year have drawn far more journalists and photographers than actual protesters.

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#101

On April 13th, 2009 at 11:44 pm, thefoundingfathers said:

In the spirit of The Tea Parties, a very Happy Birthday to Thomas Jefferson born on April 13, 1743.
#102

On April 13th, 2009 at 11:58 pm, happy2behere said:

Geraldo is a serial adulteror. He’s lied to those he professed to love forever, why should anyone believe anything he says?

Geraldo, lgm, Krugman, MSNBC, et al are trying to intimidate you into staying home from the tea parties by calling you/us racists.

Lgm – Stereotyping is a nasty habit and you should quit.
#103

On April 14th, 2009 at 12:51 am, Living in the PSRK said:

Liberal Teaparty was “Epic Fail”
#104

On April 14th, 2009 at 12:58 am, mytake said:

I personally would like to see more minorities at the tea parties. Then I would know we are all in this together. Taxing the rich until they are poor doesn’t help anyone: black, white, male, female,shemale, young, old, gay, straight, Latino or Martian, for that matter.
#105

On April 14th, 2009 at 7:11 am, beachmom said:

Our local rag, the Portland Press Herald is already publishing negative articles about the tea parties.
They don’t even pretend to have an interest in covering anything fairly.
If it doesn’t go along with the lap dog media’s liberal agenda, it is a joke and they will tell everyone they can.

Traditional journalism is indeed dead.
#106

On April 14th, 2009 at 7:58 am, AlturaCt said:

I personally would like to see more minorities at the tea parties.

Minority? I guess what you mean is non whites. So what if it is 99% white? SO WHAT? Are you racist against whites? Are whites evil? I am tired of this sh*t! People either come to this or they don’t. Conservatives are always playing this BS game that it is ideology not race. “I would vote for(name a black “conservative” here)in minute” is the mantra of many so called “conservatives” to show their “non-racist” bonafides. Of course most “people of color” don’t want to be “conservative” unless we change completely what it means(Orwell anyone?). Well if “people of color” are so conservative there is not a damn thing in the world stopping them from coming.

If they don’t it is their problem…
#107

On April 15th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, sbw999 said:

98% of blacks voted for this *bleeping* socialist!!! Therefore, what makes anybody think blacks will be at Tea Parties that protest his policies??? Ditto for Hispanics, who want their cultural brethren to be allowed to stay in this Country after they break its immigaration laws. Of course these protests will be almost all white. But that says more about the minorities not participating, than the protestors standing up for the America we see going down the drain.