Typical hate-filled lefty.
Via Newsbusters
On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, liberal FNC analyst Alan Colmes asserted that the Tea Party was a “bunch of angry white guys who went around and put up racist signs.” As a debate ensued pitting Colmes against the other three panel members, he later defiantly asked, “How many blacks did they elect?” leading Jim Pinkerton of the New America Foundation to fire back: “The Tea Partiers elected two – Allen West and Tim Scott, Florida and South Carolina.”
Host Jon Scott began the segment by assuming that the liberal Colmes would not have any complaints about the mainstream media’s coverage of the elections. After Colmes voiced his approval of the media, Scott sarcastically posed: “For instance, the Tea Party. Tea Party always got favorable coverage, right? Or fair coverage?”
Colmes then unleashed on the Tea Party: “Oh, they got, look, the Tea Party was a bunch of angry white guys who went around and put up racist signs at these at, these events on lawn chairs who had nothing better to do on weekends than sit on lawn chairs with signs suggesting Obama was a Muslim who wasn’t born in this country.”
Colmes also clashed with the more centrist Judy Miller who argued that there were also many “mama grizzlies” at Tea Party rallies. The liberal analyst dismissively responded: “I’m sure there were a few mama grizzlies there.”
Pinkerton also brought up an infamous example – documented at the time by NewsBusters – of MSNBC using a clip of a black Tea Party activist with a gun, showing him from the waist down only, during a report linking the Tea Party to racist sentiments without showing viewers that he was black. Pinkerton: “The best example was the guy at some Tea Party rally, and they showed a picture – he was carrying a gun – and MSNBC ran the picture of him saying here’s a Tea Partier with a gun, and then somebody else found out the picture was actually an African-American guy ”