Jack & Jill Politics

Much love to SusanG and Kos over at DailyKos for linking to my post on The Rotting Racist Underbelly of the Tea Party Protests.

SusanG ended her discussion of the faux populism around the Tea Parties and its connection to the racism on display by the teabaggers in her piece “Would you like a little racism with your tea?“:

I think this is a decent starting point to judge the coverage of the Fox faux teabagging extravaganzas as they unfold. And sad to say, I’m sure we’ll come up with yet more criteria for detecting undercover (or not so undercover) racism based on those very same staged celebrations in the days ahead.

DailyKos bloggers and diarists have been on top of the truth behind the tea and it ain’t pretty. (Also check out $aveTheRich.com). Our own Jack Turner hooked me up with this DKos diary “ACORN And Conservative Paranoia“. It’s a good read & here’s a highlight:

ACORN could not merely stay a nonprofit organization advocating for certain things: they needed to be elevated in importance into something that would represent a true threat — a threat you wouldn’t get laughed out of the room for being terrified of (well, at least not in conservative circles.)

To that end, ACORN became a supposed secret arm of a secret, oppressive Obama army since nearly the first moment conservatives learned their name. It is a given to conservatives that the nominee-now-president funds and directs the group, along with the omnipresent Liberal Jewish Banker, George Soros, who is the Kevin Bacon of the conservative degrees-of-separation game. And so we arrive at the present day, yet another jump-the-shark moment of a conspiracy that has already logged more flights than the Berlin Airlift.

Operatives from ACORN, you see, are going to disrupt conservative Tea Parties.

For the next 9 days, the left-wing blogosphere and left-wing clueless pundits will hammer away with their unreality-based Tea Party smears.And on the ground, the tax-subsidized and Soros-subsidized troops are going to try and wreak havoc every way they can. Many readers and fellow bloggers have seen signs that ACORN may send in ringers and saboteurs to usurp the anti-tax, anti-reckless spending, anti-bailout message.

Now, you might ask yourself — of all the groups that would possibly disrupt a conservative Tea Party (and I am going to great lengths to take these protests seriously for one moment, so shut up please, lest we all break out in another round of laughter), why would an advocacy group for affordable, non-discriminatory housing play the front role for such a devious plan? If one were to invent an enemy, in a world chock full of potential enemies already, why would anyone choose one whose most devious skill was the ability to understand real estate contracts?

Why? Probably because ACORN happens to be led by a black woman and to do work that helps minorities. It would be ludicrous if it weren’t very frightening. Because the lie has been parroted on places like #TCOT & #teaparty on twitter, conservative blogs, talk radio and Fox News, there are elements who planned to be armed and resist the phantom ACORN bogeymen. This means a dangerous situation, especially for minorities in the vicinity. From the white supremacists over at StormFront who have given coping with ACORN a lot of thought for Tea Parties:

ACORN are communists with the potential for extreme violence, so beware. I suggest you keep your G-3, or FAL rifle ready, with you L3 kevlar body armor in case they follow you home. You might also want a legal blade length knife and/or your handgun, if you have a concealed carry permit. Also keep an eye on your loved ones.

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Do you know what our Grandfathers would have done with Acorn back in their younger days?

I think you do.

Let’s bring back the old days in honor of our Grandfathers.

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