Tea Party Leader(and Radio Host) On Obama: 'Our Half White, Racist President'

[RamboLiberal]

A top Tea Party leader derided Barack Obama as "our half white, racist president" in an email to colleagues.

Mark Williams, the conservative talk radio host who has become a prominent spokesman for the Tea Party Express, sent an email in September -- obtained by TPMmuckraker -- to other leaders of the group, in which he appeared to be responding to charges of racism against himself.

Wrote Williams:

CNN went over more than seven thousand articles on my site; likely they also listened to the shows archived there too. No doubt they did a Lexis Nexis on me and found thirty years of work by and about me. The best that they could do as a result was string together three quotes, out of context, and throw in a false allegation of me calling Obama a "Nazi".

I was in the streets marching for civil rights while asshole southern sheriffs were swinging nail studded baseball bats at black's heads, and stood between black kids and even more fucked up northern assholes were throwing rocks and gas bombs at school buses in my hometown during forced busing for deseg.

Two things you can always count on: I will defend my record on race to no one (sic), under any circumstances and, I will call out any racist, any time without regard to who they are ... and that includes our half white, racist president.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/tea_party_leader_on_obama_our_half_white_racist_pr.php?ref=fpa

The teabaggers website: http://www.marktalk.com/blog/

[Blue_Tires]

1. How is Obama racist??

They should have asked him to explain that...He would have dug himself into that much more trouble...

And I'm so glad that the usual dwindling crowd of TP defenders are no longer here to tell us that this whole thing isn't about race...

[Cha]

3. As Americans know..he's not.. but the racist bigoted

assholes always attack on their opponents' strongest attritbutes and what they themselves are guilty of.

[maxsolomon]

5. no one has to explain themselves anymore

you just say shit and then say some more shit.

[Cha]

2. Batshit Racist Bigoted Assholes and the mouthbreathers

who lap up their shit.

[Don Caballero]

4. How is stuff like this tolerated?

Or even legal? Shouldn't we start going after racists with Hate Crime laws? This could end very badly if we let racists run about unabated.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. He was half right... but I'm not sure how Obama is racist. (n/t)

[bridgit]

7. People in glass houses

[wilt the stilt]

8. They are always not racist

some of my best friends are " black". If race wasn't a predominant issue then it wouldn't be at the top of his mind. Ask him to take a lie detector test.

[KingFlorez]

9. I think he's lying about marching for civil rights

Racist right-wingers tend to make up stories to defend themselves.

[wilt the stilt]

10. completely lying.

like he went and was part of the freedom riders and I don't believe there were any pro civil right marches in Boston during the bus riots.