Congressman addresses hate group

[Timbuk3]

Forgive me for the cut and paste, but there's really no comment necessary.

COLUMBIA, S.C. | Sept. 11, 2006 -- For a college football game day, the South Carolina State Museum in downtown Columbia was a busy place on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 9.

On the ground floor, a United States Army brass band commemorated the victims of 9/11. One level up, not far from the museum's permanent Confederate Army exhibit, the state chapter of the League of the South (LOS), a neo-Confederate hate group, hosted a barbeque in honor of Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, head of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and likely contestant in the 2008 GOP presidential primary. Proceeds from the $15 per-plate fundraiser went to Americans Have Had Enough!, a South Carolina-based non-profit coalition for which Tancredo serves as honorary chairman.

While Tancredo's hard-line "deport 'em all" stance on immigration has made him a favorite politician of white supremacists, this marked the first time the congressman has appeared at a hate group event.

Dressed casually in a yellow t-shirt, Tancredo addressed the standing-room audience of 200-250 from behind a podium draped in a Confederate battle flag. To the congressman's right, a portrait of Robert E. Lee peered out at the crowd of Minutemen activists, local politicians, and red-shirted members of LOS and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Confederate trappings of the event found a mismatch in Tancredo's standard nativist polemic, which stayed clear of references to Southern heritage or direct plaudits for the LOS, a Southern white nationalist organization dedicated to "Southern independence, complete, full, and total."

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Remind me. How many black GOP senators are there, again?

[Greeby]

1. I could mention the GOP Black Congressional Delegation

But he retired ;)

[Divine Discontent]

3. watts his name?

LOL.. I funny!

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[Fridays Child]

4. Now, if he'd only retire from his CNN gig.

What an ass.

[Divine Discontent]

7. true! he blows... and that's being nice. really bad at it. n/t

[muntrv]

2. Not too long ago, these same people wanted to keep Italians

like Tancredo's parents from coming into the U.S..

[Divine Discontent]

5. nothing shocks me anymore. they're out of control! n/t

[Timbuk3]

6. Self-deleated

Probably over the top.

[Divine Discontent]

8. you??? OTP??? nahhh... lol n/t

[Timbuk3]

9. It's rare, but it happens. ;-> n/t

[sweetheart]

10. Congressman addresses GOP?

The most deliberate murders on earth come from the GOP, which has them as the world's number 1 terrorist hate group.

Is it really news when they address each other?