MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Calls Tea Party Convention Attendees Racists with White Hoods

MSNBC's resident token lesbian Rachel Maddow has disparagingly and bigotedly called the Tea Party Convention attendees racists with white hoods. Spewing these comments on her shameful and lowly rated, barely watched cable opinion show this past Friday, Maddow was in fact basing her slurs on the statements of former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, who spoke on the first day of the Tea Party Convention. As with all good, liberal bomb-throwers, Maddow is a hypocrite to say the least, but what makes her especially hypocritical is her membership in the token lesbian club on MSNBC. Since she's a gay person, Maddow would be expected to be tolerant and inclusive since tolerance and inclusion is what the gay community always aggressively demands, but in Maddow's case, vitriol comes as naturally to her and all the ideological partisans at MSNBC like breathing air comes to the rest of us.

When Tom Tancredo spoke on February 4, the opening day of the Tea Party Convention, he made an impassioned, sympathetic speech about how the voting public ought to be more literate in the subject of civics, which is a justifiable and common sense argument by Tancredo. After all, is it really that much to ask-too much, in fact, to ask for people who vote in the US to actually be able to read, write or spell the word "vote" before selecting a candidate?? Heck, no, but to some radically partisan and hate-mongering ideologues like Maddow, it apparently is way too much. So much so that if you dare ask for voters to be literate in civics, Maddow will try to ruin you by branding you a racist.

In follow-up comments of further hatred, bigotry and disparagement, Maddow also went on to imply that everyone at the Tea Party convention was basically in the Ku Klux Klan and wearing white sheets on their head. This failed to be captured in the video clip above, but according to NewsBusters, Maddow managed to slip in that disparagement, too.

Maddow's laughably discreditable reasoning is based on the fact that in the days before civil rights legislation, literacy tests were used to prevent blacks from voting in the south, though they were also used in their first iteration as part of immigration policy going back to 1917.

What Maddow perpetrated in her low-blow cheap shot against all Tea Party Convention attendees-and by extension to all Americans who lean their way-is one of the oldest, most worn-out tactics called "guilt by association." By deviously linking former, racist policies to assertions by Tancredo which are clearly linked to immigration policies exclusively and also the call to simply have a more educated voting public, Maddow is completely in the gutter here, but you can't expect anything except for that low-mindedness from liberals. Period. Since liberals like her have no facts, reasoning skills, intelligence, or anything else that one might use to actually, you know, win an argument like a grownup, they must resort to hateful name-calling. I think it's actually a real rule ripped straight from their liberal playbook.

Interestingly, Maddow is also totally condemnable in an entirely different sense also. The US government currently requires immigrants into the US to take a civics test before they can become full-fledged citizens. This civics test requires numerous questions and is even way more difficult in comparison to Tom Tancredo's sensible, right-minded implication to have a basic test of civic literacy for voters. The US government requires this test for immigrants, and no one has called that policy racist just yet. Wait a second-Maddow and people like her probably think that that US government test is racist also, so never mind!

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Sources:

Steven Portnoy, Tea Party Fireworks: Speaker Rips McCain, Obama, "Cult of Multiculturalism," ABCNews

Noel Sheppard, Maddow: Tea Party Conventioneers are Racists in White Hoods, NewsBusters

Association Fallacy, Wikipedia

Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?, MSNBC.com