BUSTED: Liberals Admit Racism Charges Against Tea Parties A Tactic, Not A Truth
UPDATE - In light of the previous story of the bullshit racism charge against AP for accurately portraying Obama's speech the other night, we offer this story that goes to the heart of race-card politics.
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This is infuriating. There are racists in every party, but there should be no place in the national discourse for the following from Politico and Mary Frances Berry:
- Question: Will branding the tea party 'racist' work as a political strategy?
- Answer: "Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."
This response from Grover Norquist nailed it:
- The tea party movement is shorthand for Americans who are not committed to one party or the other (independent or non-active in party politics) and have recently been politicized to oppose the tremendous wave of federal spending coming from Washington.
- Because they are swing voters, they are doubly important in electoral politics.
- In 2006 and 2008, independents voted Democrat, reacting negatively to the unending occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now these same independents are trending strongly Republican as they react against the Reid/Pelosi spending.
- Last year, the left was trying to prove that this was all organized by oil companies or Washington-based activist groups. It wasn’t. There is no “leader” of the movement, and yet thousands of local leaders have organized millions of Americans to go into the streets and into town hall meetings to oppose spending.
- This latest effort by the left to call everyone who questions Democrat spending a racist just irritates voters already convinced Congress is ignoring their calls for less spending.
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Video and reaction below:
- Reaction from Expose the Media
Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are condemning the left’s false use of the accusation “racist” as a political tactic, saying they recognize the strategy from the teaching of left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky.
Former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry, a long-time prominent liberal activist, has admitted in an interview with Politico that the left is trying to smear the tea party movement as “racist” for strategic reasons, not out of genuine concern that the movement is itself racist.
Berry called the tactic an “effective strategy” and chose not to denounce it.
“As an active participant in the tea party movement, I know the movement’s motivation is about Obama’s policies and not his race,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 full-time fellow who has spoken at many tea party rallies and is scheduled to speak at the “Uni-Tea” rally in Philadelphia on July 31.”Race card politics is the last-ditch effort to shift the debate away from President Obama’s harmful policies such as the government’s takeover of health care and his failure to create jobs — both of which are having an impact on his popularity. This diversion may also help Obama to try to jam through cap-and-trade legislation through Congress. It’s a grand distraction from policies and may unfortunately increase racial tensions.”
Berry, now the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and History at the University of Pennsylvania, was asked, “will branding the tea party ‘racist’ work?”
Berry replied:
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
“This is exactly the kind of thing that has irked me all of my adult life, to put it mildly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “This willful and purposeful use of the race card for nothing more than political gain is toxic to race relations, and Mary Frances Berry must know that. But she evidently does not care. Based on her comment, political posturing takes primacy over whatever real issues regarding race that she might pretend are her calling cards. I have seen this all before. I find it shameful.”
Project 21 member Bob Parks added: “What’s most disturbing about this very public quote? Not only is Mary Frances Berry making this comment without fear of admonishment, and that progressives have apparently embraced and are employing these very shameful, race-baiting tactics — but Berry is likely teaching this ‘social thought’ hate to children.”
Left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky, whose tactics have been studied and followed by Barack Obama and his followers, taught his activists to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The Tea Party movement has unnerved the left and energized supporters of smaller government, causing the left to target it, as per Alinsky’s method, with bogus racism charges.
Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992.
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Video: Anti-tea party attack ad from the DCCC
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Sep 27, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Reader Comments (35)
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/mary_frances_berry.html
“There has been a mighty effort by liberals to present Shirley Sherrod as a victim — even a saint-like figure. However, after revelations that her husband, Charles, is an anti-white bigot and that she adheres to class warfare politics, it’s now being alleged that Ms. Sherrod presided over the crass exploitation of poor black workers on a southwest Georgia agricultural ‘plantation,’” said Project 21 member Joe R. Hicks.
http://exposethemedia.com/2010/08/06/massa-shirley-sherrod-black-conservatives-speak-out-on-leftist-accusations-about-past-unfair-labor/
by Andrew Breitbart
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/04/26/no-more-beer-summits-tea-party-n-word-incident-didnt-happen-and-the-congressional-black-caucus-owes-america-an-apology/
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/its-time-for-race-hustlers-in-the-black-caucus-to-apologize-for-slandering-tea-party-patriots/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100804/ap_on_re_us/us_online_insurgent
http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/07/20/think-progress-manufactures-another-fake-tea-party-racism-story/
http://www.personalliberty.com/news/biden-says-tea-party-is-not-racist-19897776/
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/tea_party_comix_creator_speaks_theyre_not_racist_t.php
"I think that it would start a great conversation about race and about how it's being used for political gain right now," the blogger, who preferred to be identified by his online handle, "General J.C. Christian," told me Monday. "I can imagine people showing up at the tea parties, which I'll do at my local one, and the tea party backers will start explaining why [the flag] is about state's rights, not slavery, and all that and basically hang themselves."
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/one-progressives-natl-scheme-to-burn-confederate-flags-at-tea-party-rallies.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGFBTFrKas
Attacks like this made her a target. Remember this sick as F*** attack...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9c1IxHrfo
Sarah Palin was made into a villain by the liberal media and Obama. The rest was just the left wingers running out to have a Coke and a smile.
I hope she has the opportunity to debate Obama...Hi...Can I call you Saebarkah? You show me your birth certificate and I will show you mine...
I hope Hillary is there to give Obama a pillow too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46pfVrpLv8
Wow, this is one video you will hate DB. Sorry. Great stuff!!! It would only be fair if you posted this, what? come again? not fair or balanced? say what? oh, nevermind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXDbJG610g
WHY, EASY...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20100810/bs_ibd_ibd/543339
Americans are also losing faith in the government. The index of confidence in federal economic policies plunged 9.6% to 36.6. The IBD Presidential Leadership Index fell 1.1 points to 47.2, the lowest since Barack Obama took office.
Warning...This is a seven second clip of Sarah Palin asking everyone who voted for Obama how that "hopey changey stuff is workin' for ya?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5af1oTOkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46pfVrpLv8
Is this the same Norquist who wants to drown the government in the bath tub? The same norquist tied to Jack Abrahmoff, who funneled the indians money thru his group, Americans for Tax Reform and Abrahmoff went to jail for it? The man who hates government?
To say that the MeParty is made up of independents is patently false from the get go. Led by Dick Army(R) and financed by Koch industries to the tune of 1+ million dollars is comical. Koch Industries, isn't that the company that Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger just Vilified as corrupting the democratic forces of California and this from a Republican governor.
The Tea Party was created because they couldn't run as republicans because they are the party who melted down the government in the first place. The tea party is more to the right than the republican party. Independent voters? I don't think so.
Part of me believes that we should take all of the lifelong elected and appointed people out onto the Whitehouse lawn and remove their heads and the heads of their familyu just to get the stink and corruption out.
Though I sound a bit radical I do appreciate the more logical and softer stance of the TEA party. Iwould select any of them over any democrat or republican. It's time for these people to leave, they do not serve us, the people the
RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://dailybail.com/home/liberal-reporters-vs-conservative-black-leaders-at-press-con.html
Really, who do you think you're kidding? The Tea Party is not "independent" or non-partisan. It's the same old Republican Party base voters, except now wearing funny hats.
"Because they are swing voters, they are doubly important in electoral politics."
The ultra-conservative Tea Party is as far as it gets from swing voters.