Demonizing the Tea Party - MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan interviews Mark Potok and Mark Williams.mp4

The real question is whether Dylan Ratigan, the Southern Poverty Law Center and those like them will succeed in demonizing the Tea Party movement like the Jews were demonized in Nazi Germany. Who is the real problem?

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[bbburton]

Ratigan is a douche bag. As an independent voter, I take exception to being labeled an extremest just because I support the fiscal and constitutional principals the Tea Party promotes. I would no more support racism than I would support any form of organized hatred towards any individual or group. And Ratigan's attempt to label TP's as closet racists is more than offensive, it's pathetic.

[pinz2022]

@MickytheBull

How is it these guys can go on and on about klansmen, neo-nazis and skinheads popping up like mushrooms after a rain but can't seem to find any pictures of same?

[outofslumber]

Ratigan sounded like he wanted "soundbite" answers to "soundbite" questions. The price of a free country with free speech is that people will support things you don't like and don't agree with. I mean how do you deal with extreme views in an organization that acommodates(sp?) free speech. Removing a sign is one thing. The fact is they don't need a sign to be representing those views, or it be "their" truth. What ya do then?? Have thought police touring the venue with a questionaire and a taser?

[SSedmak]

Ratigan was correct about one thing: this was an offensive example of what is wrong with the dialog in this country. Period. Just not in the way he implied...

[SSedmak]

Wow, Dylan Ratigan is such a tool...

[911insidejo8]

@pinz202...well right, and neither Ratigan nor Potok are saying what exactly is illegal about what these so-called 'hate groups' are doing.

And another thing, I've known thousands of people throughout my life, many of whom hate the gvt, but none of them are violent. I want to know who all these so-called hate extremists are. I have a feeling they're kind of like Al Qaeda-you know, a gvt-funded boogie man the gvt can pull out whenever it wants to pillage countries or get people to shut up.

[foxrat123]

SPLC is communist.

[HasbaraMatata]

Mark Potok: a face (and Zionist propaganda) you can trust.

[jacobin111]

Mark williams said, "THe tea party does not accepts racism."

How did he not answer the question.

[jacobin111]

These shills, they are saying the tea party is racist. The tea party is about individual rights and the republic, a republic founded on the constitution.

Democracy is the first step to totalitarianism.

[pinz2022]

@bbburton

So Dylan Ratigan uncritically accepts the numbers rattled off by the Southern Poverty Law Center?

He lifts a scene from a bizarre movie and somehow likens the insane Michael Douglas character to the Tea Partiers?

He references racist and nazi signs at Tea Party rallies but can't seem to find any footage of same?

He talks about violent right-wing groups but can't seem to point to any specific acts of violence by anyone matching that description?