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The Tea Party / Racist? Debate
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(CNN) -- Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.
A Tea Party rally protester holds a sign with President Obama depicted as a witch doctor.
A Tea Party rally protester holds a sign with President Obama depicted as a witch doctor.
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The posters, showing Obama wearing a feather headdress and a bone through his nose, have recently popped up in e-mails, on Web sites and at Tea Party protests.
The image has stoked debate and cast attention on the rallies, which have drawn people Tea Party organizers describe as on the fringe and not representative of the overall movement. Their general viewpoint, leaders say, is that there's been too much federal government intervention, particularly concerning health care and taxes.
The witch doctor imagery is blatantly racist, critics contend.
Others remind that presidents get made fun off all the time, and the election of a black president has only made racially charged political satire more sensitive.
While not denying the crudeness of the image, Tea Party organizers stressed that those who carry the signs are a few "bad apples." Video Watch how poster put spotlight on racism »
"That [witch doctor] image is not representative at all of what this movement is about," said Joe Wierzbicki, a coordinator of the Tea Party Express, a three-week series of protests across the country.
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2009, it just keeps getting better and better. Just ask David Wright..
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9/17/2009, 5:18 pm
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Re: The Tea Party / Racist? Debate
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Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.
See, thats interesting, are they saying you cant show anger without also being racist?
Now for example, many people were angry at Kanya West but Ive seen no racist signs in protest. Many more people were angry at Barry Bonds breaking a white man's home run record but I never saw a sign of a monkey with a steriod needle. Why is that?
Now why would people upset with a health care reform bill resort to racist signs at the President? Well, its simple, they are racists. Not all, but enough nuts to shake the tree. Thats my point, from Rush to Beck to some in office, they cant debate the facts, but resort to this crap, and it should embarass the rest of us. Bill Maher has a good line a few weeks back, he said"The 70% of us who are sane should take to the streets to denounce the 30% of us who are insane." But we never do.
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9/17/2009, 5:28 pm
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There will always be extremist nutcases out there. The sad part is that the extremists throw a black cloud over the legitimate protests and then those get lost in the mix...that was MY point in the debate about Wilson. By pointing to the racism card you negate the LEGITIMATE protest and that's not right.
And no, Hit, what the Tea Party folks are saying is not that you can't show anger without being racist, it's that while this small percentage of people may be venting their anger in the wrong way, the anger itself is still legitimate.
And there was a good point in that article...ALL Presidents, almost from the time of Washington, have been the target of derisive political cartoons and caricatures. Doesn't make the witch doctor imagery acceptable, but it's hardly unique to Obama. It's just much easier to jump on the racism card and make it seem unique. Again, taking away from the legitimate argument at its base.
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9/18/2009, 9:04 am
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Re: The Tea Party / Racist? Debate
So Fixed News promotes the Rally, then claims they were the only one to cover it.. unreal.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Fox News is under fire for a newspaper ad they purchased Friday that inaccurately accused its competitors, including CNN, of failing to cover last weekend's Tea Party protests in Washington.
"How did, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?" Fox's newspaper ad asks.
The answer: They didn't.
CNN provided live coverage of the rally in Washington on Saturday, dispatching more than a dozen personnel, including multiple camera crews and the CNN Express Bus, to cover the event. Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser was live at Freedom Plaza; Correspondent Kate Bolduan reported live from the Capitol and throughout the crowd; All Platform Journalist Jim Spellman provided live hits all day after traveling for weeks on the Tea Party Express Bus; and CNN Correspondent Lisa Desjardins was live for CNN and CNN Radio from the National Mall.
CNN's Rick Sanchez weighs in on Fox's ad
CNN's coverage also included numerous live reports and interviews with protesters and newsmakers, including rally day speaker Sen. Jim DeMint and activist Art Gerhart, who was on the set with anchor Don Lemon to discuss the event.
In addition, CNN.com provided a live stream of the rally throughout the day.
ABC referred Friday to a statement by Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks — the group that organized the event – characterizing the network's coverage that day as "fair and honest." The rally story was featured on the network's morning shows, nightly news broadcast, in extensive radio reporting and online.
MSNBC also pointed to its own reporting. "Just like every other network mentioned in the ad, MSNBC covered last Saturday's protest," the network said in a statement.
CBS detailed its coverage of the event in a statement issued Friday afternoon.
"CBS News had multiple crews on site with our Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes reporting," the network said in a statement. "It was the lead story on the CBS EVENING NEWS; CBS Radio News provided hourly reports during the day and CBSNews.com had the story in its rotating lead all day. They also processed the Nancy Cordes video and linked it throughout the site."
And CNN criticized Fox for its inaccurate statement. "Fox News' ad released today is blatantly false regarding CNN's coverage of the 9/12 rally," CNN said in a statement.
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9/18/2009, 7:33 pm
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I don't know why the organizers didn't police their own rally...probably because they figured any attention is good attention, though I don't agree with that. Maybe because they didn't feel they had the right to police anyone else's right to free speech, whether they agreed with them or not.
I will not just assume that they agreed with the racist overtones, especially when they've made it pretty clear that they don't agree.
What they did is allow those few protestors their right to free speech while distancing themselves from the racist angle...maybe it's just me, but I find that to be a legitimate response.
And you still haven't addressed my point that not every attack on a black President is necessarily racist just because he's black.
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