Tea Party Smear Watch: The Race Card
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?
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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They are desperate at this point. I am sure they will stop at nothing to smear us, and the media will surely oblige. They media will make it up if they have to just like they did the Gov. Palin smear of people yelling “lynch him [Obama]” at her rallies- which never happened, but was reported as fact nonetheless.
I can’t wait to see how many ringers they throw at us on Wednesday.
If every card in your deck of cards is the same card, you are pretty limited as to which card you get to play.
Trust me, there is no Logic Card, Facts Card, Reality Check Card, Patriot Card, Tolerance Card, Free Speech Card, Understanding Card, or any other card but one in their deck.
No surprise here.
Here you go. Rules for playing the race card.
I just hope almost everyone we have at the parties have cell phones to have proof of what is going on. Please people, stay calm, those nuts will try to get us to say something they can use against us.
L
Why is Geraldo still on Fox News? Every time it looks as if he may be growing up, he does something stupid.
O’Reilly should quit having him on his show.
We are going to the Fresno Tea Party Wednesday, only 15 miles from home.
That’s pretty racist of Geraldo implying that people whose skin tones are darker are stupid lemmings incapable of independent thought.
I guess he must believe in white supremacism.
/sarc
The party of the KKK, tries the race card. How predictable is that?
Rumor has it that State Police in some states may take extreme actions (automobile checkpoints, metal detectors, etc.) to stave off some of the protesters. Whether it’s true or not…I don’t have any way of knowing.
Any MSM coverage grudgingly given to these tea parties will be accompanied by commentary as to the lack of minority participation and how the crowds “don’t look like America”, from which the listener will be expected to infer the racist nature of the rallies. Thus the smear will be delivered without having to stoop to making an accusation that can be rebutted. One of the oldest MSM tricks in the book.
The first thing we need to do to combat the rascist accusations is quit apologizing.
And at the tea parties, stay focused on the issue and don’t let the media dictate the coverage.
Hey, let’s give Jerry some credit. At least he’s a consistent dumbass.
There are 2 themes already developing. First the tea parties received huge amount of corporate sponsorship. From whom they can’t tell us but they insist that we trust them because they saw it on a blog and the White House told them on a conference call.
Second the race card. They always play the race card though. I give up even trying to fight them on this one. It doesn’t matter how many times they are proven wrong or somebody points out the hypocricy, especially in light of this recent election, the narrative and the story stay the same.
I truly am a great American trailblazer.
rumor has it jon stewart is going to be at the Harrisburg PA rally.
I am sure he will be honest in his reporting ( as if ).
Will make a point of asking him if he would like to comeback and cover the support the troops rally first saturday in May, should I bring a lil box of crickets for his response?
No one discussed the lack of diversity during the million man march a few years ago, right? Hmmmm, double standard?
Fox is even getting the tea parties a bit wrong in the promotions for the converage on Wednesday. They are mentioning people being fed up with the taxes. However, they are missing the other critical 50% of the angst, and that is all the SPENDING!!!!!!!!!! That is what I am the most angry about.
as far as the spitter aka jerry rivers:
perhaps he has crystal balls that he knows who will be at the 500 plus rallies 2 days from now. I will be sure to tell everyone of “color” that jerry rivers says they don’t care
karen,
they go hand in hand aye?
I get your point tho
bring on the WHISKEY REBELLIONS!!!
When all else fails …
Gee. Geraldo is an idiot.
I’m a minority (Latino), and I attend. Of course, he and the other morons on the left don’t see the minorities they want to see. The stereotypical afro, dark skin, dark hair, looks like they just got off from their janitor or trash collecting jobs.
I’m balding, have green eyes, light skin. You know? Like other Latinos do.
And, for the nay-sayers who’ll say I’m just one out of thousands in a sea white people, here is one minority no one can deny.
When this black conservative speaks, he truly rocks the house.
My advice to anyone attending a tea party protest, bring extra placards with you, and politely try to pass them out to anyone who may be carrying something deemed offensive or not in the best interest of the movement.
Be polite and respectful, have someone follow you with a camera if possible.
How the heck does he know?? Has he been to a tea party? I’ve been to 2 of them. Very little news coverage.
Ok, just ranting but it would be good if more people of color came to them.
Geraldo, pehh
This just in:
There was a lack of indians at the Boston tea party. Geraldin-o will have fill at 11:00.
Freakin idiot.
/ducks spit wad
It’s hard work, but someone’s gotta do it.
So “Spit Head” says there are no minorities at these protests. Yet, when you, Michelle, attend one then racists comments are hurled at you.
Liberal hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I am a Sioux with an Irish last name.
I’d be a lot more excited about these tea parties if they consisted of millions of people storming the capitol building with AK47s.
Seriously, I don’t think the left gives a flip about these tea parties because (1) they don’t accomplish anything and (2) they don’t pose any threat to socialist tyranny.
We need to get unified and depose the regime of oppression that is our federal government…. Nope… tea parties won’t get the job done.
Rumored primary challenge to one of the Treason Trio getting closer.
I doubt any Northeast Republican is perfect, but for the Treason Trio, it would be better if an admitted Demonrat held those seats since they’ll never support the filibuster when it counts.
I’ll be sure to remind Ryan Frazier that he isn’t black, when I see him at the Denver Tea Party
http://facethestate.com/articles/15111-ryan-frazier-appeal
Well, my black neighbor and I are going to the Denton Tea Party together.
By the way….Geraldo “I’m a person of color” Rivera has about as much color in him as a bottle of Elmer’s glue.
Keep trying to beat us over-the-head with the race card and it will come back to haunt you……I promise.
It is not about race….it’s about the productives getting very tired of the non-productives.
Geraldo’s implication:
Geraldo Rivera is half Puerto Rican, with a Jewish mother, making him halachically Jewish. Being Puerto Rican means anything from pure Spanish ancestry to pure African ancestry, but most have some combination of both.
His name is not, BTW, Jerry Rivers.
No people of color? I suppose it’s easy to not see what you don’t want to see if you don’t actually go to a Tea Party.
Geraldo Rivers is nothing but a pompous, arrogant tool who’s way too full of himself.
I have no idea why FoxNews hangs onto him. He hardly adds anything intellectual to the conversation.
Michelle …
I am afraid I have to say that this is one time that ACORN and the MSM actually got it right … there is no diversity …
All of the Attendees are Americans …
/sarc off
Given that the AK is (originally) a Russian weapon, it’s more likely you’d see them used against a Republican administration. We’re partial to our AR-15’s et al.
They’re not intended to be a solution – they’re just a starting point. Organization first, then we get into the operational part. Don’t expect us to be storming the Bastille anytime soon. We’re conservatives. We believe in ousting them legally, to the maximum extent possible.
So let me get this straight: the Left stages demonstrations, for years, organized by the likes of International A.N.S.W.E.R. and World Can’t Wait, front groups for the Workers World Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The media calls this “grassroots opposition” to the Iraq war and Bush and whatever. WWP and RCP are never mentioned, nor is their (WWP) open support for Kim Jong Il and other assorted totalitarian tyrants. That’s not news.
Then a true grassroots movement emerges and all they can talk about is how racist it must be or how it’s all a production of a TV news channel or a PAC or something somewhere.
But they’re not biased, nope.
Hmmm, I remember in my physics classes during a study of optics that white( well, actually light pink) is the presence of all colors and black was the absence…. Speaking strictly optically here for all you race baiters, it appears to me, that I and my sisters and brothers attending Tea parties are, in fact, bringing color to the protests… Rivera, have a cup of STFU.
MNUSMCDavid
Personally I’d rather someone treated Rivera to a can of Whoop-A$$ …
DesertLover
Can’t say I disagree… too bad Gunny Hathcock or Pfc Mawhinney can’t sight in on him, just sayin’…..
SGT
Vietnam
MNUSMCDavid
Agreed … I always qualified expert rifle and pistol during my 10 years in the Corps but that was nothing compared to what the snipers manage to do …
SSGT
Vietnam
MM, if getting racist email makes your cause right, Obama’s cause is righter than yours — he gets far more racist email.
lgm, a comeback used by one of your cohorts here, It’s apropo to your post #42, “cite”
Getting racist e-mail does not make you right or wrong. It does render the person who sent the e-mail irrelevant.
At best it is being the little boy who cried, “Wolf.” In most instances, bluntly it is breaking the 8th Commandment. See God for details.
Wow, a flashback to a post of February 27, 2009. Does your mommy keep all of your posts in a scrapbook for you?
Never forget Plan B.
Actually his implication was that whether or not people of color were invited, is that they’re all on welfare and don’t pay taxes, so tea parties are a waste of time and hold no meaning for them.
*It’s not about race and not about party affiliation; It’s about stopping with the tax and spend policies that will destroy the country for all of us; And we can’t let the GOP hijack the events; They are just as guilty.
*The theme should be a such:
**Throw the tax and spend bums out, locally, statewide, and in D.C.!
**Mandatory E-Verify to protect AMERICAN workers!
**No form of amnesty is acceptable as it will surely be the final nail in the coffin!
**Go ahead, form a party, and call it the Tea Party; It has relevance, substance, and best of all, people behind it, not entrenched elitists like in the RNC and the DNC; It should attract conservatives, Blue Dog Democrats, libertarians, and non-RINO Republicans.
Yeah, like what is the chance we’re going to see an Eskimo at one of these Tea Parties?
My take on Geraldomundo’s slap at brown skinned people at the tea parties is that he feels they are incapable of earning a living, therefore don’t pay taxes, ultimately they have no dog in this hunt! He is a blatant racist and only thinks his roots qualify for rightous indignation. I still get skid marks on my fingers from the ‘mote control getting off Fox as fast as I can everytime he’s on!
Or rather lgm, the poor and lower classes, who unfortunately are over-represented by oppressed races, are so dependent on the government that they won’t protest the hand that feeds them. The discussion is about racial steretyoping by the MSM to intimidate regular folks into not attending the tea parties. How much racist email MM gets is not important to the discussion.
Ah yes good ol Ger. What a class act. Isn’t this the same scumbag that was banging Jacob Javitz wife while Javitz was on his death bed?
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
I promise not to make racist comments about iced tea.
(Repeat 490 more times…bad Flyoverman, bad, bad)
This is standard issue Alinsky. I wrote about this with what Krugman did today.
True enough; I’d venture to say, though, that racial bean-counting as a measure of “validity” is as close as we’ll ever see to liberals using any kind of empirical measures or standards in argumentation.
I dont care what anyone says… that there is funny…
(”Lord, I apologize, be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea”)
I’m not sure we need to worry about Geraldo. This is the same bozo who concocted a story about having a wild affair with tennis star Chris Evert. The story was pure unadulterated hogwash. Chris Evert said she never had any romantic interest in Rivera and never even dated him, let alone get swept away in Geraldo’s manly arms. Geraldo also bragged in his book that wife of Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau fell madly in love with him and also that he stole away Marion Javits from US Senator Jacob Javits. With a braggart and blowhard like Geraldo Rivera, why should anyone worry about what he thinks about anything? BTW,, did anyone see Geraldo’s interview with William Shatner? When Captain Kirk aka Bill Shatner said “Geraldo, you and I are a couple of white guys”, Geraldo jumped off his seat and said “I’m a brown guy”. Actually Geraldo looks like any other white guy in late middle age. Not that there is anything wrong with that (to quote a famous Seinfeld episode).
I will be making a sign to take with me on Wednesday, as a contingency. I will keep it behind the real sign, unless it’s needed. It will say:
MOBY ALERT!!!
This person is a plant – trying to divert from the message of this gathering, and make the organizers and attendees look bad!
Please do not pay attention to the inflammatory rhetoric!
(Complete with arrow to point at the offender, of course!)
Tea Baggers don’t have to worry about the race card, we have to worry about the Tea Baggers who have been sending out automated phone calls(which are illegal in my state)with recorded messages reminding us to participate. I have filed a complaint with the FCC and have given them the “home base” number. 512-646-1432 is the number and McDonald Memo is the info from caller ID. If you get these illegal, automated, recorded messages, I hope you will report to the FCC as well.
Uh right. “sammygeo1@yahoo.com:” you’re a stupid racist.
As are many of his stories…the fake bullet dodgings
If the only reason Geraldo Rivera is bashing the Tea Parties is because he hasn’t seen any people of color it’s not because they are not invited. All U.S. citizens and not are invited to the tea parties and welcome as long as they behave themselves, and if as I said the only reason to bash the tea parties is because of a lack of color in Geraldo eyes then he needs to open them and see the real reason for the tea parties.
I’m afraid it will always be an uphill struggle for us to get the truth out. The only chance we have is if some fair-minded moderates start to demand more balance from the MSM. Of course, any moderate who does that will end up being labeled a “neo-con” by the lefty press.
White is the blending of all colors and is a color.
Explanation:
Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can’t see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this.
Fact: The sum of all the colors of light add up to white.
This is additive color theory.
Therefore, either Geraldo
RiveraRevolver is a liar or a scientific-illiterate-idiot.I say Geraldo
RiveraRevolver is probably both. Silly boy!Semper Fidelis
*Best disclaimer when the Race Card is thrown your way is to say, “I am not, and have never been a member of the NAAPC(National Association for the Advancement of Political Correctness).
*And please remember, political correctness is the Liberal version of fascism!
Flyoverman …
Well aware of 175’s … saw a lot of them during Khe Sanh (mostly army, although they existed in the MArine Corps as well) and while I was an F.O. for wttached to 3rd Battalion 12th Marines …
Geraldo is a pompous liberal stooge with machismo complex. He is the back bench comedy relief for Fox right behind Greg Gutfeld. Who cares what he has to say?
I would expect no less from someone who spits at girls. Geraldo should just go home and eat worms.
Liberals are pathetic. These tea parties are a direct, in-your-face contradiction to their meme that conservatism is dead. All they can do is try to frame the oraganizers and participants as white folks hatin’ on the Prez … Predictable.
organizers
My Dear Fellow Conspirators of the Vast Right Wing: a day without being smeared by the Loonies of the Left is like a Day without Homophobic Orange Juice.
Geraldo Rivera can spit on me all he wants as it is a case of mind over matter: I don’t mind and he doesn’t matter.
Have Tea Bag
Will Travel
Like a Knight without armor in a savage land
How many “whites” are in the “black caucus”? Is there a “white caucus” in congress?
When 90% of a racial group votes for socialism, how many can we expect to stand in line protesting socialism?
Just who do you think pays most of the taxes?
Well, now I guess we should look for people of dark complexion at the tea parties.
Of course you actually have facts to back up your statement, right?
Yeah, never mind.
Who gives a crap what Gerry Porn-stache thinks? He’s a vulgar leftist hack and an idiot to boot.
IF it were true that minorities, read as BLACKS and sometimes hispanics, CUZ asians don’t count according to racist liberal agitators, were under-represented at the “Tea parties” which are open to all, it would only mean that it would because the minorities were either: too stupid; too greedy (feeding off of tax dollars); so uneducated they have no idea of what is happening or what the Tea Party was; or so Fing racist that they simply dismiss it as part of “white” history. So Word to Geraldo’s Mother-ya’ll is slaves to white liberals an instead of pickin cotton ya’ll is pickin on conservatives. Oh and Geraldo is sooooo not happening.
My God, is there no end to liberals’ accusations of racism?
Good grief, Charlie Brown…
Interesting on how the liberals actually believe that they aren’t racist. Completely and totally ignorant of reality they stumble through life spouting hate and racism then blame it on conservatives.
Of course they also believe that conservativeism = fascism yet when they gain power their fascist bull-in-a-china-shop rampage against our civil liberties would make Stalin nod in approval.
You’re handling it well Michelle, you’ve obviously learned the first rule when dealing with liberals: “You can’t fix stupid.”
“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).”
Don’t you have to be a taxpayer, rather than a teat sucker, to be at the Tea Party?
Show up and protest. Let the Left meltdown as they try to make every escaped gas molecule from both ends of their Dear Leader the making of a profound movement.
Methinks the Left doth protest TOO much. ROFLMAO.
Gee, and to think we arent having to pay busloads of “demonstrators” to show up and act like they are concerned.
Ann Coulter said it best when she said that the Left always crows about valuing the kind of real people they are not themselves.
Flyover country comin home to roost, beooootch!
Gee whiz, how many nationalities has our Michelle been identified as?? I’ve lost count.