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We've talked before about how eliminationist rhetoric, hate speech, and bigotry have now become mainstream in the Republican Party.  Republicans, of course, adamantly deny that fact though it's obvious to those paying attention.  That extremism burst into plain view during the "protests" in town halls in August and again on Saturday when 50-70 thousand teabaggers showed up in DC for Glenn Beck's 9/12 event.Besides the irony of politicizing the deaths of 3,000 Americans by an...

Desperado's post this morning about Rush Limbaugh's blatant race-baiting leads us here - to former President Jimmy Carter coming out and saying, in a way perhaps only he can, that some of the opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in the dark southern roots of white superiority.  In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, he remarked, ". . . I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people,...

Republican Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina (where else?) seems to be emerging as the leading spokesman for the Angry White Mob assembled in Washington, D.C. yesterday. DeMint said on Good Morning America about the rally, "it's not about Obama, it's not about the Democrats," it's just a group of people who are "here to take back their country."Not about the Democrats? Take a look at the roster of past and present elected officials who...

UPDATE 09/12/09 08:30: Gross Exaggeration Further Discredits Teabaggers' CaseIt didn't take long.  Astroturf protest organizer FreedomWorks spent six months organizing the anti-Obama, anti-tax, anti-healthcare, anti-nonwhite people, anti-intelligence protest in DC today.  Indeed tens of thousands of white people did attend, most brought in from around the country on 450 buses.It was the normal assortment of right wingers and screwballs (with a few white supremacists sprinkled in) protesting everything from health care for all Americans to...

Last night I spent an hour watching a documentary that included some footage from the civil rights movement. It offered a short clip of Dr. Martin Luther King saying at what appeared to be a press conference that it was his request that President Kennedy sign an executive order declaring segregation illegal. At the time he made this statement, President Kennedy was under great pressure to advance civil rights without threatening his own chances...