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The Tea Party Exists Mainly Because Many Rural Whites Just Don't Like a Black Guy Being in Charge

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CuriousLurker11/22/2013 10:02:32 am PST

Since the subject is racism/bigotry, from my Google alerts this morning—ugh, looks like Condell is branching out:

OH PAT CONDELL NO

He’s doing it again. This time he cites Frontpage Magazine…and we could stop right there. That’s ranting neocon loon David Horowitz’s organ (word chosen deliberately) for presenting contrived and fallacious arguments against academics, leftists, feminists, and anyone with a conscience. Facts do not disturb Horowitz’s crusade, ever. […]

So, yeah, Frontpage Mag — we’re talking lunatic far right ratbags on parade. Just the source says “Pat Condell is a right-wing racist.”

But worse, what is the article he’s citing? A hit piece titled “Gypsies, Camps, and Thieves”, all about the horrible Roma and their filthy, welfare-sucking, child-stealing ways, calling them “sticky-fingered, labor-allergic newcomers”. That part is worth quoting in full. It’s from a section complaining about an article by Helen Pidd on the plight of the Roma. […]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/11/21/oh-pat-condell-no/