GOP Congressman says Tea Party protesters have the right to use racial epithets.

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GOP congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) during an interview on C-Span claims that Tea Party protesters have the right to say anything or smear any politician they want. Apparently this includes racial and sexual orientation language.


This is unreal!



The C-span interview is below.

http://www.mediatakeout.com/2010/39618-disgraceful_california__republican_congressman_claims_that_protesters_had_every_right_to_call_black_congressman_a_ngger_watch_video_-_and_vote_his_azz_out_inside.html

[madmom]

1. So that means we can call them anything we want, hmmmm!

[tledford]

5. I like "Shit-for-brains trailer trash crackers!" personally...

...but would never say it out loud. :-)

[NJmaverick]

2. Why don't the tea baggers just start wearing their white hoods to their rallies?

[LonePirate]

3. So the only differences between a Klan rally and Tea Party rally are the robes and hoods?

Sounds about right to me. Their attire is about the difference I can see between them.

[NJmaverick]

6. pretty much the case

[bigdarryl]

4. And these are the people that want to take over Congress in Nov

[nevergiveup]

7. Interesting

So if we call Devin Nunes a racist, homophobic, pale-faced, facist fuckwad that would be OK?

[hobbit709]

13. When he objects, just play back his own words.

That will piss him off even more.

[LiberalFighter]

18. He does love striped orangutans.

He gets really excited when spots baboons with tutus in heat.

[hobbit709]

8. Wanna bet that steam would come out his ears if he was called names?

[nyccitizen]

9. Well, technically...

That's correct. They do have the right to use them, even if it makes them classless, ignorant bigots. Hate speech is defended by the Constitution... I'm more concerned about some of the placards which seem to encourage the use of violence -- the first amendment doesn't allow speech that incites violence.

[elleng]

10. 'Its a free country,' we said in the courtyard when I was a kid.

This guy, and probably others, are beyond kids, and if thats the repugs meme, Dems had sure better come up with a response, FAST!

[OHdem10]

11. They may have the "right" to say anything they wish and I do believe

in the old ACLU saying--I may hate what you say but I will
defend your right to say it.

The argument should be: Does the Republican Party want to
continue to be viewed as a party depicted as having Racist
Leanings.

In other words, the GOP should not squeal when someone
calls them a Racist Party. I will fight to the death
to defend their right to say it. What is good for the
goose is good for the gander.

[The_Commonist]

12. Of course they have the right to do that!

And we have the right to call them bigoted assholes...

[HughMoran]

14. Nice line to use in his re-election campaign

Whatanasshole.

[tallahasseedem]

15. And we have the right to call them racist assholes.

However, they DO NOT have the right to hold signs threatening the President.

[Hansel]

16. You can be guaranteed that Morning Joe will be defending them

Joe and Mika have screamed vehemently about Democrats saying anything even remotely negative about the motives of the people who are financing the Tea Party because that suggests that this is not a grassroots cross-section across political lines of "real Americans" with "real concerns" about our government. I believe they even suggested it was unpatriotic to even question who is behind this group.

So on Monday he will vehemently chastise the actions of "very small number" in the group and then go on to state that the vast majority are upstanding American citizens who represent a cross-section of real Americans across political lines who have real concerns about our government.

Anyone trying to paint the whole group by the actions of these "few people" will be shouted down and, likely, he will argue that these people were likely plants.

Why would this argument be so ridiculous? Because of the racist signs and messages of threats of violence that have been carried by members of the group since their inception. All of the people who march hand-in-hand with the people carrying the signs, who don't not challenge them and who do not refuse to march with them, have given implicit consent that these people represent them.

The racist nature of the Tea Party is blatant and is demonstrated by the fact that a great number of its followers openly shout that Glenn Beck is a hero and Glenn Beck is right! Why does that make it racist? Because Glenn Beck has been adamant in making the case that Obama's social agenda and his health care reform agenda are nothing more than reparations for the blacks. That's why.

Why this blatantly obvious fact that Glenn Beck grew the group's numbers by using fear of blacks taking from the whites has been ignored by the media says more about the media and the discomfort with race than anything else. But it is a fact. I suspect some in the media buy into this fear out of guilt. To the many of the Tea Party members, not just a few, people socialism = reparations because Glenn Beck told them it does.

[CreekDog]

17. Except we're not allowed to call people racist

because that would be using the "race card".

[Number23]

19. egg-zactly!

And don't forget, being CALLED a racist is worse than actually BEING a racist!!

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