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Is the Sleeping Giant Racist?



From all over the country close to 1/2 a million ordinary Americans descended on Washington DC to make their voices heard for smaller government, lower taxes, less spending and stopping Obamacare. This was a much larger rally than anyone predicted and was quite historic in its nature. Many of these people had never been to a protest before but felt the need to have their voices heard. They felt scared for the direction our country is taking. In almost all cases the People were pleasant, polite and considerate as partially evidenced by the fact there were no arrests but that hasn't stopped politicians and the elite media from calling the participants "fringe", "out of touch" and yes even "racist".

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Take a few minutes and judge for yourself how radical or racist these people appear to be. Several months ago the ground swell to take back America began with tea party protests, moved to Town Halls and now expressed itself in the massive march on Washington DC and 200 other Tea Partys across the country. As the march began it occurred to me that what the far left has done can best be described by what Imperial Admiral Yamamoto said after his decisive victory at Pearl Harbor. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Given all these facts, do Congress and the President really hear the movement's concerns? Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said “I don’t know who the group is,” he said with a shrug. David Axelrod said in a CBS interview "I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood, my message to them is, they’re wrong." So if march participants were unknown and a fringe, why did President Obama leave the White House that morning for a health care speech in Minnesota and why did Nancy Pelosi let the House out a day early so they could avoid the protesters? The day before the march, I was very lucky to have met Congressman Mike Pence from Indiana. When I asked him if Congress was aware of the Tea Party movement and was it having any affect, his reply was "Beyond My Wildest Dreams". So yes, it is having an effect but I had no idea how much until I returned home. On September 13, 2009 a pro Obama Care rally only garnered 1,000 people and this per Coquierofrom the Daily Kos. The disparity between marches and the effectiveness of the Tea Party movement has the progressive left in a tizzy. As if on cue the elite or fringe media as I will now call them, swung into action. The tingle that ran up their leg must not go away, something must be done and quickly. Just branding Tea Party participants as an "Angry Mob" or "Lashing out" didn't seem enough, there needed to be more ..." hhhhmmmm , let's call them racists" and that is exactly what they did.
  • Newsweek's newest cover: IS YOUR BABY RACIST?
  • On MSNBC's Hardball, Mike Barnicle and Chuck Todd discussing if race is the real reason for all opposition to President Obama.
  • On Monday's Situation Room Wolf Blitzer has the on-screen heading of “RACIAL TINGE TO TEA MOVEMENT”
  • CNN anchor Don Lemon previewed his 7 PM hour Saturday night by citing Joe Wilson, “Town Hallers yelling at lawmakers” and those “refusing to let kids hear the commander in chief. And on and on and on. What's behind it? Is it racial?”
  • Video: Keith Olbermann at MSNB claims Van Jones' critics are racist
  • New York Time's Maureen Dowd on Joe Wilson "You Lie" outburst to Obama's address to Congress "Wilson's shocking disrespect for the office of the President ...convinced me" Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it."
  • Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page who saw race as the common denominator: “People are not just mad at Obama. They're mad at Jesse Jackson, they're mad at Reverend Wright, they're made at Al Sharpton, they're mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.”
  • A Post had a story on the front of the Metro section on how people attending the Black Family Reunion think that tens of thousands of Americans came to Washington not because they love freedom, but because they hate black people.
  • In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter attributed much of the conservative opposition that President Obama is receiving to the issue of race. Listen in to Carter in his own words Hmmm why didn't that apply to opposition to Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice or even the Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele (former lieutenant governor of Maryland).
  • News Busters talked about how ABC and NBC on Tuesday night joined the effort to undermine the anti-Obama tea party participants by smearing them as racists as ABC framed a story around the proposition “some prominent Obama supporters are now saying” the opposition to Obama is “driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President,” while NBC anchor Brian Williams touted how “former President Carter spoke up and spoke out about” the supposed racism.
  • Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Huffington Post decided to play the race car by stating "The racial assault by droves of taxpayer marchers was simply the latest in the racial pillorying of Obama."
  • Maxine Waters believes that the media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists "I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed ... I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers ...I think it's not enough for African-Americans to say what they think, what they suspect ...I think that if you put the microphones in front of them, if you do the interviews, they'll tell you what they believe, what they think." Listen to her on You Tube
These people must have been at a different event to have come up with these accusations. Frankly I am appalled at the lengths the elite media has decided to go against these salt of the earth folks that are indeed main stream America. Every group has a few folks that go too far but the elite media out did themselves finding them in this crowd. Shame on you. Take time to read a conservative black American's view at Black Tea Party Express Tour Team Member Experienced Racismby Lloyd Marcus or It's not racism, it's being an American by Michael Steele, GOP Chairman. To the elite media that have barely covered things such as ACORN and the Czars but find the need to fabricate racism because people object to things a president who happens to be black does, don't be surprised when your readers and viewers continue to dwindle. By the way the elite media didn't seem to call the reported act of racial violence on the school bus "racism"... wonder why? No wonder a Pew poll shows just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. Frankly, no matter how big this movement becomes, I doubt if it will have much effect on Senator Reed, Rep. Pelosi and President Obama. This is the first time in decades that Democrats have had such a super majority and likely the last for decades to come. I fully expect them to continue to push their far left progressive agenda. What has and will happen is the Tea Party movement will put a tremendous amount of pressure on the Blue Dog Democrats to either listen or risk losing their jobs in the next election. The movement is for real and it's here to stay Roger King is a 55-year-old computer programmer with a master’s degree from Clemson University, Born on a farm in Ohio, he now lives in the suburbs of Raleigh, N.C. King is a collector of politically incorrect facts which can be found on politicallyincorrectfacts.com.


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