Think Progress Caught Using Three Year Old Film, Liberal Plants to Smear Tea Party as Racist

Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

The leftist group Think Progress has taken down and edited a video smearing the Tea Party movement as racist after being caught using three year old footage. The group kept in footage and images of leftist provacateurs who were caught infiltrating Tea Party rallies with racist messages.

Think Progress originally released a 53 second YouTube video yesterday entitled "Tea Party Racism". That video is now blocked and was replaced this morning with an edited version that runs 50 seconds.

Taken out was two short clips of a white man yelling, "Go home wetbacks." That footage turned out to have been posted to YouTube on September 4, 2006.

Also in the video is a still image of a sign that says, "White People Are Pissed." That sign was carried by a leftist infiltrator at the April 2010 Tea Party Express rally in Boston that featured Sarah Palin.

The man in the photo below was run out of a rally by Tea Party activists for wearing Nazi patches on his clothing.

Video of the confrontation can be found here.

Think Progress selectively edited that video of the provacateur being run out of the Tea Party rally and included it in their video to paint the Tea Party as racist.

These deceptions call into question the entire video by Think Progress.

This video of racism by the NAACP has not been called into question, just ignored by the media.

[FrankR]

Let them keep tryin' and lyin'...they need a straw man to get the little prince re-elected and keep their freebies flowing.

The TEA party movement is not about race...but the NAACP, et al, oh so needs it to be to accomplish their agenda.

Meanwhile, all of the public ranting of that nutcase "preacher", Jerimiah Wright, and the NBPP encouraging the killing of "crackers and their babies", is NOT seen as "racist" to these people.

All this is, is a big effort to get the TEA party to knock the "chip off their shoulder" to justify some retribution - probably from obama so he can declare some national emergency and cancel the elections.

That means one of two things...

1. We weasel-down and go into hiding, allowing the democrats to scare us into staying home on election day, or;

2. We defend ourselves with whatever necessary, knowing that we must then take things to a logical end.

Those who are trying to start trouble won't be a problem if we're prepared for it.

Personally, I don't think they will get a lot of traction out of these TEA party accusations, cause it just ain't so. And that is what is really pissing them off...it threatens one thing...their victimhood.

For some reason, many blacks don't seem to feel that they are relevant unless there is a "racist" around; something to lash out at to dispel their pent up anger for not accomplishing what others have.

It's a perpetual game of "King of the Mountain".

As much as it has been publicized that the TEA party movement is about taxes, they still call it racist. The only reason I can figure is the more taxes we pay, the more "stimulus" they get. It's like giving Spanish Fly" to a nymphomaniac.

[DBeers]

Think Progress = Leftist Socialist Asses

[andy58-in-nh]

Thanks, kristinn.

Pajamas Media posted a story on April 15, 2010, that features some of those who now appear in the ThinkProgress smear job.

Link also here: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/tea-party-crashers-not-quite-understanding-the-assignment/

I would not expect the State-Run Media to set the record straight, so it is incumbent on all of us to get the word out as expeditiously as possible. After all these years, I still manage to be astonished at the extent to which the Left has no shame or sense of decency.

[kristinn]

This fraud by the left should be spread far and wide. It won’t of course, but we should try. There are a lot of sharp-eyed Freepers and bloggers who have picked the video apart.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The creeps in the fist pic ARE NOT Tea Party people If I saw them at one of our rallies I’d be following every step they took and recording it.

[andy58-in-nh]

The “Nazi” appeared at a St. Louis rally, but as yet I cannot determine if his identity was uncovered.

[ETL]

In fairness, a lot of people and groups use the raised fist. Just because someone hoists a clenched fist doesn't mean they're a Commie Lib or other Leftist.

uh, CONTEXT is the key here. Michelle spent years in Wright's communist "Black Liberation" "church" as well. She is every bit, if not more, of a Marxist radical as Obama. And that's saying something!

[a fool in paradise]

What are you saying?

These two certainly look like 'teabaggers' to me.

[MNDude]

I know he appeared the week liberals were encouraged to go out to infiltrate tea parties

[a fool in paradise]

The Days of Rage.

When the SDS became the Weather Underground terrorist group.

Riots staged in Chicago over the Chicago 7 trial.

[a fool in paradise]

Track the union plants and lavender mafia shenanigans with the keyword “madhatters”

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/madhatters/index

[Only1choice____Freedom]

I guess I just don’t understand the mindset that allows these people to keep trying when they’re caught every single time.

They are NOT caught every single time. That is why they keep trying. If they get caught, they try the system and when it bends, they get by.

They are testing the system and they have found an ally in Holder.

The word "System" implies things have been done the same way twice.

I see no system here.

[a fool in paradise]

The media never gave a damn about the antisemitic, pro-terrorist, and pro-Communist banners, signs, and literature at many many so called “antiwar”/”peace” protests in the Bush years.

Too late to bother policing signs and getting “outraged” now.

That they have to fabricate signs means that the Pravda Media will continue to carry the DNC’s water. Pure collusion.

[ETL]

Yes, both Wright and Ayers' Weather Underground advocated communist "Black Liberation". Ayers, Wright, and many others around Obama still do. In fact, in one of Obama's books, Limbaugh mentioned yesterday, Obama said BLT was a great inspiration to him.

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[andy58-in-nh]

I’ve forwarded the story and its associated links to Glenn Beck and his producer - hopefully he will explore it further.

[penelopesire]

Great post and work Kristinn. Will do my part to spread this info far and wide. Think Progress should pay and pay dearly for this blatant lying smear.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[Sloth]

Wow, using footage made way before the Tea Party came into existence.

[lack-of-trust]

Kristinn

are you an illegal alien? ...

because you are doing the work the Main Stream Media won’t do!

(this post represents both humor and sarcasm)

[penelopesire]

For the record:

The True Face of the Tea Partiers (Part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQWkBcq3qw&feature=related

(Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pm1k7MK850&feature=channel