Ted Rall nails it- "What a difference white skin makes"

[n2doc]

Although, to be brutally honest, the RW would be even happier if they could find more stooges like Steele to do their dirty work.

[Eric J in MN]

1. One of the anti-Obama protesters carrying a gun was black.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/report_az_assault_rifle-wielding_man_and_nh_gun_to.php?ref=fpa

[1955doubledie]

3. They had to get their token black guy in there

You know, like the commercials from the 70's, where they'd have a group of 50 white people and one black person...just to show they were "diverse."

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Wait - let me get this straight.

Rall changes the color of the gun nut's skin from black to white (probably because he just assumed the guy was white) in order to make a point about race, and... ?????????

[noiretextatique]

7. i'd like to see him pull that shit in oakland

or los angeles. he's in arizona with a bunch of militia types.

[Captain Hilts]

2. It was a black guy carrying the rifle. nt

[gratuitous]

4. Well, see, a terrorist isn't "entitled" to rights

And our faultless president would never, ever declare someone as a terrorist just on a whim or something. But if you're a citizen (well, the right kind of citizen, that is), and you're exercising your sacred Second Amendment rights and displaying a holy relic of the High Church of Redemptive Violence, then the sky's the limit!

See, it all makes perfect sense. See?

[noiretextatique]

6. the black guy wasn't the only gun nut

all of the others were white. ted rall is right on.

[titoresque]

8. I was there and there

were reportedly 12 other white people with guns.
Also, the black guy with the gun was part of Ernest Hancocks libertarian group of nutwings. It was a set up so that Ernie and his thugs could take as much attention off the issue at hand (Public Option) and on to his own agenda of......not sure?? The sky is falling??
I liked Ernie at one time. It seemed to me that during the Bush years he actually had some points to make about how we were quickly losing our freedom. These days I just wish he would stay home during our rallys........or do the work and gather his own people for a nutwing rally of their own.

[Cid_B]

9. Ted Rall is a sad little man... n/t

[johnaries]

10. Ted Rall is AWESOME!