I figured this article would be perfect considering the Tea party people on this site have been called racists no less than 100 times.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/7122482_opinion_accusations_of_tea_party_racism_lose_traction_with_voters


How quickly things move in the age of communication. America voted only two days ago and yet the news of the Democrats' defeat seems already old. If a person made a list of things which went wrong two days ago for Democrats and Progressives, you would have to include one item that appears on the list of things that went right for President Obama in 2008: the mainstream media.

The big push for Republicans came when network and cable news shows like MSNBC and CNN discovered that the Tea Parties were the sine qua non enabling them to paint Republicans as a bunch of wild-eyed, right-wing racists. With the advent of Tea Party demonstrations around the country, the mainstream media's daily bombardment could have flattened a small country. Shortly thereafter, the game was up for Democrats, though it would be a long time before they noticed.

The mainstream media theme was simple, brought up from moribund left-wing "alternative" websites and given new life by Nielsen motivated cable broadcasters. Tea Partiers were racists. Tea Partiers were gun-toting, bible thumping extremists. Tea Partiers didn't understand economics (as if Obama's economic team did). Tea Parties even did weird sexual things popularized in the slang of the gay community.

Unfortunately for Democrat incumbents, the mainstream media coverage couldn't film much of anything supporting the progressive-left cause célèbre hypothesis advanced by people like Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Larry O'Donnell and even by self-consciously "serious" journalists like Cooper Anderson.

The mass associative disorder afflicting media liberals didn't translate to votes for Democrats . In fact, the Tea Parties pulled many Democrats and independents into its folds, and some minorities.

It's a prevailing media myth that one party is more culturally enlightened than another. Try to imagine NBC reporter Chuck Todd and Chris Matthews sharing an apartment in Bushwick and trying to fit in with some boys from the 'hood to joke about the "white boy club," as Matthews did during his election coverage.

The mainstream media has for a long time tried to draw conclusions first, broadcast those conclusions widely, and then provide whatever video support it could. But people just didn't buy it in 2010, as the lockstep and slow-moving mainstream media follows the dinosaur into extinction.

By now, almost everyone understands that many African-Americans tend to think as Republicans but are habituated to vote Democrat. If Democrats didn't work so hard at keeping African-American communities in a state of dependency, African-Americans would break from the party in droves.

In 2006, I did a bit of work for Lynn Swann's campaign against Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. Swann lost, receiving a disappointing 13 percent of the African-American vote. During that election, one Democrat campaign manager was fired for demeaning Swann by referring to him as a "rich white guy."

For a recent example, consider CNN's coverage of the Nov. 2 elections. CNN's coverage was reasonably balanced, perhaps too well populated, and featured a breadth of political opinion ranging from Bill Bennett to Donna Brazile. When Democrat Brazile had the temerity to applaud black Republican Tim Scott, the victor in South Carolina's 1st District, the left-liberal Democrats on the panel booed.

Progressives will sneer and the term "token black" will still be bandied about by the ignorati on progressive-left blogs. However, the several victories by Republican minority Tea Party candidates detailed in the Yahoo! News story, "Minorities ride GOP wave to groundbreaking wins," undermines this tired trope.

This is not to say that bigotry magically disappeared from the world in 2010. But the accusation of "racism" directed against one party has lost traction with the electorate.

I say.
Let's find us a good-old, down-home Redneck for President.

Instead of a couple elitists sipping some import swill, he could get a couple kegs of Bud, roast a pig and invite Gov't Mule, Outlaws and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Tea Party Could Put Record Number of Black Conservatives in Office

http://keyboardmilitia.com/2010/11/01/tea-party-could-put-record-number-of-black-conservatives-in-office/

Despite allegations of racism in Tea Party organizations, the Republican Party, and conservative groups, 2010 has witnessed more black Republican activism than ever before. Thirty-seven African Americans in 16 states have been in contention for seats in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives this year.

Gee do I hafta drag out all these HC rally signs again? Really? Please no!

Let's put it this way...if you met a homophobic-Islam-hating-Beck-blowing-Mexican-hating-Obama-hating person who do you think they voted for? C'mon...it's simple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxgTryyYoA&feature=fvw

are there racists in the tea party???? sure but that doesn't mean the whole organization is racist. There are racists everywhere.

I know there were several people that weren't "white" at a tea party here.

it doesn't matter... whenever someone disagrees with a liberal, they are automatically a hate mongering, phobic racist...

Like the article says.Once you find the evidence of this tea party racism we would love to see it.Because all I see is millions of people wanting a better life for everyone.Even Obamas home state went Red.If that doesn't speak volumes I don't know what does.

Boo! down with liberals ptttttttt

I had a different way of looking at it.

Those red/blue states just kinda bothered me...

Something missing in the way folks is looking at it.

They did not go red or blue.

They went red, white and blue.

American citizens are taking back this country. Our very diversity has put the Legislative and Executive Branches in a quandry... They are going to HAVE to find a way to actually legislate cause no one group now has actual control. (Except the voice of the people).

Let's hope those folks will do right by us and not turn out to be what we have in there already.

Pink slips every 2 years till we weed out the worst theives and scoundrels...

That does require every American patriot to actually VOTE.

I don't even care which way they vote because the greater the number of people that vote the greater will be the VOICE we send to our leaders.

They damn well better! The reason the tea party exists is not because the democrats aren't doing their job. It's because the conservatives haven't been doing theirs!
GO TEA PARTY!