MSNBC is sorely lacking in the originality department.
Via Newsbusters:
On Monday’s PoliticsNation on MSNBC, liberal columnist Cynthia Tucker compared sheriffs who refuse to enforce new restrictive gun laws to people in the South who opposed laws banning segregation, while liberal talk radio host Bill Press, apparently forgetting that the Justice Department routinely refuses to enforce immigration laws, recommended that these pro-Second Amendment sheriffs should be prosecuted.
He went on to smear the Tea Party as being founded on racism and opposition to a black President.
After noting a New York Times article on sheriffs opposing some of the new gun laws, MSNBC host Al Sharpton turned to guest Tucker who fretted:
Well, you know, Reverend Al, I can’t help but think back to the 1950s and ’60s in the Deep South. When there were so many segregationists who were absolutely opposed to the laws of the land. And absolutely opposed to enforcing them. It didn’t matter what the Supreme Court said. It didn’t matter what the laws were passed. They were going to defy them. And you will remember that turned out to be a very ugly and very violent period. […]
After the MSNBC host played a clip of North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Greg Brannon comparing ObamaCare to “tyranny,” Press added:
Shows me two things. Yes. Number one, they are out to delegitimatize President Obama and they have from the very beginning. Two, it shows that this Tea Party, you and I have talked about this before Reverend, the essence of this Tea Party is a racist institution.
It is born of the fact that they cannot stand the fact that a black man is President of the United States. But it also shows me that despite what happened in Virginia, right? This Republican Party hasn’t learned one lesson. They still will go as far right as they can. As extreme on the extreme fringe of the Republican Party.