Rachel Maddow Responds to Tancredo's Racist Screed
Rachel Maddow responds to Tom Tancredo's racist screed on Rick Sanchez's show comparing La Raza to the KKK. She explains what the NCLR's mission actually is.
"Strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families." And as Rachel notes "it's also the largest national Hispanic and advocacy organization in the United States". La Raza responded to Tancredo as reported by the Colorado Independent:
La Raza blasts Tancredo for Klan comparison: ‘Get his facts straight’:
The National Council of La Raza doesn’t think much of former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo’s attack on the 40-year-old civil rights organization as “a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.” The Littleton Republican made the claim Thursday afternoon in an interview on CNN, arguing his claim that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sottomayor “appears to be racist.”
“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” National Council of La Raza spokesperson Lisa Navarrete told The Colorado Independent. “He’s defamed our organization and told falsehoods about our organization without any basis in fact or evidence. That’s not who we are or what we do.
“If you look at Mr. Tancredos’ record, he’s often spoken about things he doesn’t know anything about.”
While the stakes couldn’t be higher, with Sotomayor poised to become the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court, Navarrete sounded more weary than incensed over Tancredo’s latest antic.
“He’s at the far extreme of the Republican Party,” she said. “He’s someone who has been instrumental in alienating the Republican Party from the Latino community. We’ve been urging the Republican Party to try to outreach to the Latino community, and they did a good job of it until they let people like Tom Tancredo take over the debate on immigration.”
to the GOP.
There is your answer...right above.
No screaming, no yelling, no over the top accusations...simply the truth.
That is how you call crazy mofos like Tancredo, who have only three brain cells (no two of which operate at the same time), ignorant, out of line, racist and just plain wrong.
If you look at Mr. Tancredos’ record, he’s often spoken about things he doesn’t know anything about.”
I love THAT line the best.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
...muzzled by CNN? How the hell does a hispanic let Tancredo get away with such total bullshit and not call him on it?!
Maybe Sanchez doesn't know who the NCLR is?
'Credo's credibility.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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...Lou's Dobbs legion of bigots would have flooded CNN with complaints that Sanchez defended a fellow Latino racist. It's unfair to simply blame Sanchez.
...just wondering why he didn't jump on him about it. To hell with Dobbs' legion of bigots, stand on your principal if you're right.
I still have no idea why Tancredo even has a voice in this. He's a washed up neocon with no valid opinion. Fuck him.
I think Tancredo's being trotted out on the networks in order to...*coughs* help the GOP cause.
HA!
Keep up the good work Tancredo, you dumb racist bastard.
But I continue to be impressed with the political genius of Obama's choice. The GOP needs to be cut up into smaller and smaller pieces if we want them to stay down in 2010.
Absolutely brilliant political move.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I want them to float to the surface like the putrefying, bloated corpse they are and bob in front of the public eye just long enough for people to understand how vile and corrupt they are, then completely purge the stain from public discourse.
I don't want this coming back when my nieces and nephews are grown up.
...of the GOP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkTz0EvfEiY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...you are spending waaaaaay too much time on you tube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0k21yeVMbM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I rest my case!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5PJlGqY3wo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That was beautiful, man. Interesting to note that Tancredo listed this as charity work for his wiki bio: Getting school kids to make cards and sign a poster, after Columbine, to take to Russia when they had there school tragedy.
He failed to mention that he has a stellar approval rating with the Dicks at the NRA for voting with them on all their wants and needs. WHAT A PLASTIC PIECE OF SHIT.
Which one?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I have no use for the cutsey Rachel. like when she compared the Court to a Whiskey Sour.
Oh, you meant Tommy T.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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a bit on the silly side lately...I will still watch her show though.
Enough for any simpleton to follow.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
and made me want a whiskey sour.
Maddow does a surperb job. If you want "cutsey" you need to go to fake news like Fuks News.
The more racist he sounds. Tancredo calling someone a racist is almost laughable if it wasn't so disgusting. the silence from the right over the likes of him, Limbaugh, Buchannon and Hannity is even more disgusting. I've heard two people on the right defend her and attack them. This isn't going to help them win back the majority. This will cost them more seats. Simply put the right is a racist party.
is intended to be a factual statement
put Arizona, New Mexico and Florida in the blue column.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The GOP IS the party of hate.
"This isn't going to help them win back the majority. This will cost them more seats."
While I can revile the Slug Tancredo for his statements as well as other rightie-tightie's, how is teh right-wingnuts losing more seats at all levels of government be a bad thing?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I was just pointing out how clueless they are. All we need now is a group of Evangelical Republicans to attack Catholics.
is intended to be a factual statement
..I was going to do something about them alienating Atheists but nevermind..
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They've pushed out the gays, the blacks, the hispanics. Who's left? The Asians?
It's who's NEXT!
Da daaaaa daaaaaaaaaaa!
... to hostilities with North Korea, when most people can't guess my ethnicity correctly. I always get 'Korean? Filippino? Japanese? Hawaiian? Vietnamese? DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE CHINESE!?!?!'
The Polynesians!
Those crazy SOB's! Livin in paradise...what is WRONG with those people...you just KNOW they're trying to take over the world.
They MUST be stopped!
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Update...Y'all do know I was kiddin...right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31zzMb3U0iY
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
they've decided they've got no use for women either.
I've never seen change without a fire
Tancredo's appearance on CNN attests to the mediocrity of that network. Why news organization in search of serious opinion would invite an asshat like Tancredo is beyond comprehension. Cretins like him bring absolutely nothing to the debate, and yet they keep reappearing night after night. As for the quality of the hosts - don't even get me started. What a colossal waste of time and money.
...his view is so fucking ridiculous that they have him on. They have to have conflict to get ratings. That's the problem with cable news in general, besides their corporate ownership.
It's brilliant, really. Put Tancredo and others on the air over and over. I love it. Tancredo's too stupid to hide his blatant bigotry. This is the real face of conservatism. It should be shown for what it is. Pick any republican, scratch the surface, and you will find Tancredo's ideas. The right has a long history of using race as a tool to get votes. Let them do it. The ship is sinking, on fire and Tancredo walks up carrying dynamite. Brilliant.
Calling Sotomayor a racist is just a defensive, pre-emptive attack from absolute racists who knew that they would have been called out by the Latino community.
republicans are the party of stupid
in its 'Big Tent' for Latinos, I'm sure there are other groups for that block of voters, including conservative groups. I think we can realise now, that two choices have turned into one, and that isn't enough for us. In the UK they have more than 2 (or 'one' as I like to call it) and so does Canada. In fact look out Dems and Thugs, especially you monoglots. In Canada, there is a party for francophones, ie French Speakers.
How hilarious, if this burgeoning 'minority' started its own party that was based on Spanish speaking? Ooooh scary, and possible.
Just keep treating people as commodities, both parties, and assigning them a corporate-style value based on their numbers.
It's insulting.
me-oww!
You know, a big old lawsuit against Tancredo might shut the racist bastard up!
I wonder if right winger Geraldo Rivera will continue to be a right wing blowahrd, or speak out against the anti latino fringe in the Republican party
Did you know he was briefly married to one of Kurt Vonnegut's daughters? Kurt had some classic lines in one of his books about what a Prima Donna, phony-asshat he was.
Billo over Latino issues. That has to count a *does Rachel Maddow impression* teeny teeny tiny tiny bit!
I've never seen change without a fire
That Tancredo was a self-loathing Hispanic.
Kind of like the closet-gay religious wackos who rail against homosexuality.
he's a self-hating person of Italian heritage. He hated the fact that his mother tried to help his campaign in the earlier days because she was selling plates of spaghetti to raise money for him. It apparently was too ethnic for him. He fancies himself a W.A.S.P.
If not, why not?
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the Chinese and Irish came before them??
You can't separate the KKK from their hoods and nooses. Has there ever been a political party more eager to flaunt their ignorance, lack of education, and inability to remember one single thing they learned in an elementary school history class? Please, Lord, please, grant this country an explosion of critical thinking.
and if fact they would not be under attack by Uncle Tomcredo, I would say they are too conservative for me! Wanting to reach out to republicans! BS!
Who invented Hispanic, anyway. Was it a Puerto Rican, Cuban, or some gringo who figured it was an insult to the European masters to call everyone Spanish?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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Hispanic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
me-oww!
are Hispanic. As, of course was the late, great Roberto Clemente.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
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is the political reality! and screw Ronnie Reagan, the amiable dunce!
http://dos-centavos.blogspot.com/2008/02/gop-...
Cardozo is Portuguese. A different nation on the peninsula!
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