Tea party leader: I'm not racist, our 'half-white' President is!

[devilgrrl]

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.

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

[951-Riverside]

1. He thinks calling Obama a nazi is ...racist?

:wtf:

Not sure what that idiot is trying to get at.

[Bluebear]

2. What exactly is a 'record on race' to defend?

Idiot!

[tularetom]

3. Who died and left this unemployed DJ in charge of the tea party?

I remember when he used to be on KFBK ten years ago. He wasn't near as loony as he seems to be now, but he was still out there. Plus he was such a poor broadcaster as to be almost unlistenable.

Have you seen him? He has a face made for radio.

[devilgrrl]

5. "He wasn't near as loony as he seems to be now" - that seems to be a pattern with RW radio hosts

They were pretty tame and then suddenly....!

The right must pay more or something.

[divvy]

4. Lets rename "Tea Bagger" to "Shit for Brains"

[Touchdown]

6. Don't accept their frame! Tea Party is their frame. Teabagger is yours!

Just like "Pro Life" Death Tax, Clear Skies, Tax and spend, or anything else they make up. Do not accept their terminology.

and yes... He's a serious racist.