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![[*]](./images/iconic/default_icon.gif) posted on 2-6-2010 at 06:08 PM |
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du Führer err... the furor over 850 KOA's Tom Tancredo's Tea Party remarks...
The good news last year was that anti-illegal immigration nutcake "Gunny Bob" Newman suddenly up and fled from his show and was no longer on
850 KOA...
The bad news this year is that he now works as "Senior Fellow in Homeland Security Studies" for 850 KOA's anti-illegal immigration nutcake Tom
Tancredo's neo-American Bund err... "Rocky Mountain Foundation""...
http://www.therockymountainfoundation.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo
Now this dego err... degrading "nonracist" (cough) outburst from Gunny Bob's new boss, former GOP Colorado Congressman and weekend / fill-in 850 KOA
talk show host Tom Tancredo, who WOPs err... "wallops" the Tea Party "on the side of its white cracker head" in its quest for national legitimacy as a
political entity...
As a former social studies teacher, who should know better, Tancredo's Crow-ing caw err... call for voter testing, can only be taken as support for a
return to a kinder, gentler, form of Jim Crow...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
The other person who "should know better", is Trancredo's 850 KOA boss, Kris Olinger..
Hey Gunny... Tell me... Is the old boss, the same as the new boss???
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Tancredo blasted for poll test idea
By Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post
Click here for original article at: denverpost.com
Former congressman Tom Tancredo took heat Friday for remarks at the national Tea Party convention that critics viewed as calling for a return to Jim
Crow laws.
But Tancredo said he wasn't targeting a specific group when he suggested in Nashville there should be a "civics-literacy" test before someone could
vote.
"People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House," Tancredo said in his
opening-day speech Thursday.
"His name is Barack Hussein Obama."
Tests were used to prevent blacks from voting during segregation and were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1964.
Tancredo said Friday that his call for a civics-literacy test dates to 2007, when he was a Republican presidential candidate and was impressed with
how much an immigrant he met on the trail knew about America.
Told his remarks were creating an uproar — particularly among liberal bloggers — Tancredo laughed and joked that they were "quoting me accurately
again." He then bemoaned what he called "the left's obsession with race."
State House Speaker Terrance Carroll, the first black speaker in Colorado history, said there's a reason Tancredo's remarks are being viewed
racially.
"He's saying them in relationship to Barack Obama," said Carroll, a Denver Democrat. "What does he expect people to think?"
Tancredo represented Colorado's 6th Congressional District for a decade before retiring in 2008. He is best known for his anti-illegal-immigration
stance and speaking his mind.
At the convention, he railed against Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, and said it was a good thing he lost because Obama's win has
inspired activists.
"He's calling for things that, thank God, were banned and were part of Jim Crow life," said Heidi Beirich, research director at the Southern Poverty
Law Center. "To me, it's an incredible thing to say. We've been down this road before. It's not a good history for us to follow."
Carroll said that as a former social studies teacher, Tancredo should know "how hateful those tests were and how hateful that period of history
was."
But Tancredo said his call for a test is strictly based on his desire to get participation only from voters who understand the government.
"Because if you can't answer the same questions an immigrant has to answer in order to become a citizen, what the hell right do you have to vote?" he
said.
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radioPete
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| posted on 2-6-2010 at 06:24 PM |
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"Touchdown Tommy" may have just turned the tide of the 2010 election toward the DEMS. If his latest "revelation" doesn't get out the voter base (and
everyone else who is appalled), nothing will.
"Touchdown Tommy" raises the question again of that pain-in-the-ass "Fairness Doctrine". Notice how that monster only gets traction when people like
"Touchdown Tommy" speak.
For now, the modern day version of "The Fairness Doctrine" was heard (sort of) by those listening to Randi Rhodes yesterday. To paraphrase, she said
"With all of this snow, the city (DC) will be smothered in white, all white everywhere, as pure white as the Senate Republican caucus"
Like I said, it's the closest thing today to a "Fairness Doctrine" that we've got.
The fun continues.
Are we close to a 2nd civil war, yet?
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| posted on 2-6-2010 at 07:24 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by radioPete
""With all of this snow, the city (DC) will be smothered in white, all white everywhere, as pure white as the Senate Republican caucus"
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Great line!
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