Rising Hegemon
Earlier this week, tea party activists and GOP lawmakers gathered near the Capitol to rail against an immigration reform bill passed by the Senate.
While the event was linked to a number of controversial figures, including an organizer who has argued for eugenics and called African-Americans a "retrograde species," that didn't deter Republicans like Rep. Steve King (Iowa) and Sens. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) from showing up to join the chorus against a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
When Ken Crow -- a co-founder of the Tea Party Community -- stepped up to the microphone, however, George Zornick of The Nation said he was taken aback by the talk of "breeding" and racial purity that followed.
So the usual cast of nutjob subjects were present. Not that they'll ever be asked about it.
4 comments:
the mess hate radio/fux gnews created.
Nope, no fascist tendencies amongst the far right, none at all....
""...and Ted Cruz (Texas)...
Footage of this should come in handy down the road.
As to King and Sessions, nothing can hurt their credibility as they will always be in the top 1% of crazytown nutballs.
Interesting, innit? President Obama is totally and personally responsible for anything anyone he's ever met has ever said (William Ayers or Jeremiah Wright) or anything those people have met (Saul Alinsky) to the second or third degree, yet Republicans can share a stage with the likes of Ken Crow, and not a word makes it into the popular media.
I'm so glad were all post-racial and stuff, so we can be sure there isn't an r-word component at work here.
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