The national coordinator of the American Tea Party movement, Amy Kremer, apparently sees nothing wrong with circulating a picture of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, and she’s pledging her support to Dr. David McKalip: Tea Party Leader To McKalip: ‘We All Have Your Back My Friend!’

In an email exchange on the Tea Party listserv, obtained by TPMmuckraker, Amy Kremer wrote:

Robin, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
David, we all support you fully and are here for you. I can assure you of one thing and that is we will protect our own. We all have your back my friend!

Let me know what I can do to help. I am here for you if you need me David.

Kramer was referring to Robin Stublen, another Tea Partier, who in response to McKalip’s apology had written that what McKalip had done in sending the email was “no different than what liberals did for eight years with Bush cartoons” and “no different than the passing of Jib Jab videos that we all have shared.” Stublen also charged that “radical members of the left” had tried to “silence” him, and called McKalip a “victim,” and a “great man fighting for a great cause.”

Kremer is the American Tea Party movement’s official National Coordinator, and also serves as a prominent public face for the movement, on whose behalf she has made numerous media appearances in recent months. According to its site, her group recently helped put together an anti-reform event featuring Sen. Jim DeMint, Rep. Tom Price, Grover Norquist, Doug Holtz-Eakin, and other right-wing luminaries.

Meanwhile, McKalip’s “apology” for sending out that racist image was apparently somewhat less than sincere.