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CNN anchor rips âbigotâ Ohio Tea Party leader
Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 -- 11:32 am
CNN host Rick Sanchez described the leader of an Ohio Tea Party group as "a bigot and a liar" on Tuesday, after he had first referred to Hispanic immigrants as "spicks" and then attempted to defend himself by claiming he had merely been quoting a 1960's Bee Gee's song.
Several weeks ago, during a march supporting immigration reform, Tea Party leader Sonny Thomas had tweeted, "Illegals everywhere today! So many spicks makes me feel like a speck. Grr. Where's my gun?" That original tweet appears to have been scrubbed from Thomas's Twitter feed, although a few retweets calling it "disgusting" can still be found.
"So he's referring to Hispanics with the most offensive word that you can use," Sanchez remarked, "and then he implies that he wishes he could shoot them? Nice."
Thomas's "racially insensitive" remarks have already caused an Ohio state senator to drop out of an event organized by his Springboro Tea Party group. Thomas appears to be known for his racist attitudes, and CNN found a photo on his MySpace page of him wearing a "white pride" t-shirt, although that also now appears to have been removed.
According to Sanchez, when CNN contacted Thomas to ask for an explanation, he claimed, "As I am a lifetime music lover of all genres, I always have some sort of song that can fit almost any occasion or situation. ... Coincidentally, the song 'Spicks and Specks' had been on my player. ... I made the reference to the song, not stopping to think of the era that it was produced from and taken out of context could be so offensive to some people."
The remainder of the article (with video) can be found at:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0414/cnn-anchor-rips-bigot-ohio-tea-party-leader/
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Thomas adds insult to injury when peddling the BGs excuse. - Lyrics tell the story.
[ In Reply To ..]What kind of twisted mind would expect anybody to believe this song would relate to that context and spur him on to taking up arms? Obviously, tpot mentality is not of this world if these types of people are recognized as their spokespersons. I am losing count of how many examples we have witnessed in the past couples of weeks or so of that party's racism and desire to incite violence. This piece has inspired me to take a break and document that info for futre reference before those runaway numbers get way beyond my reach. Here are the lyrics:
Where is the sun
That shone on my head
The sun in my life
It is dead
it is dead
Where is the light
That would play
In my streets
And where are the friends
I could meet
I could meet
Where are the girls
I left far behind
The spicks and the specks
Of the girls on my mind
Where is the sun
That shone on my head
The sun in my life
It is dead
it is dead
Where are the girls
I left far behind
The spicks and the specks
Of the girls on my mind
Where is the girl I loved
all along
The girl that I loved
she's gone
she's gone
All of my life
I call yesterday
The spicks and the specks
of my life 've gone away
All of my life
I call yesterday
The spicks and the specks
of my life 've gone away
Spicks and Specks!
So Thomas really meant to say trace memories evoke his Grrr where's my gun response. Uh-huh. Yeah, right.
So this is wrong because 1 - sm
[ In Reply To ..]man has said racist things so obviously all other tea party goers are racist too? So what do you call Barrack Obama since he spent 20 years in the church of Rev Wright listening to hate sermons. By your comment, that would make Obama racist too then. Hmm...interesting. I never thought of it that way but with your reasoning...that is the only conclusion I can make...Obama is racist. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
I'm confused ... could you please point out to me in the article - sm
[ In Reply To ..]that Nikki posted where it says that ALL tea partiers are racists? Must have been in small print, cause I missed it. BTW, this is from a tea party leader. At least President Obama publicly expressed his distaste and disapproval of Rev. Wright's remarks. I have yet to really hear anyone from the TP be too indignant about the reputation their party has garnered by this kind of behavior.
oh please...what a sad come back. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]We all know the Obama said he wouldn't not denounce Wright because he was like family to him. Obama only denounced Wright when he was urged to for the sake of his campaign and then and only then did he throw Wright under the bus and denounce him. He still sat in that man's church for 20 years listening tor racial hatred preached from the pulpit.
As for Nikki calling all tea parteries racist...she has said all of them are violent and now she is talking about racism. If she thinks they are all violent, she must think they are all racist too...huh.
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