Tea Bag Party talking head Mark Williams let his white sheet show on CNN. According to him, the NAACP are racists for insisting that the Tea Party harbors white sheet wearers.
Asked to tell racists "you're not welcome" in the tea party, Williams replied, "Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP."
The exchange came on Wednesday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." A day earlier, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the tea party for tolerating racism.
This is part of the dialogue:
MARTIN: Allow me to finish. I have said consistently, the Tea Party people have an absolute right to assemble, to protest. But what I have said, there is no room ...
WILLIAMS: That's gracious of you.
MARTIN: -- in that movement for racists. And what I've said is, you should come out and say you're not welcome here.
WILLIAMS: Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP.
MARTIN: Oh, that's nonsense.
WILLIAMS: Look, they've done more...
BLITZER: All right...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: ,,,a bunch of old fossils looking to make a buck off skin color.
This guy is the Tea Party's front man. And yet the Tea Party is not full of racists. Ok, and I have a magic bean in the palm of my hand that will give you super powers, cheap, only $1 million dollars.
Before any of you read into the above exchange and think that Williams just had a brain fart trying to defend the Tea Party against the big mean, angry black man, Williams is the same person who called former president Jimmy Carter a "creepy little faggot". This is how Williams thinks. And this is the man that the Tea Party chooses to put front and center as their mouthpiece. Are there still any questions on what the Tea Party is really all about?
On a side note, I find it funny that Mel Gibson, an actor, and not a political figure, says homophobic, racist things, in private, and he gets raked over the media coals. While here is tea bagger extraordinaire, Mark Williams running around saying homophobic, racist things in public as part of a political movement, and the media shrugs. The last time I checked, Mel Gibson wasn't the mouthpiece of a movement trying to affect the political process, and by extension people's lives. I'm just sayin'.
