Posted on 04/06/2010 6:08:06 AM PDT by GailA
Members of the Mid-South Tea Party demanded Monday that U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., retract statements he made in a radio interview last week criticizing the movement. They also insisted he apologize and meet with party members.
“The Mid-South Tea Party has never and will never condone or participate in racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the Ku Klux Klan or neo-Nazism,” said Mark Herr, a member of the Mid-South Tea Party.
... The tea party movement’s aim is to cause government to hear our voice. And for Rep. Cohen to disregard our efforts and make such unfounded claims is appalling.” Herr was joined by more than a dozen Tea Party members and Donn Janes, who is running in the District 8 congressional race, to protest comments Cohen made on “The Young Turks,” an Internet and satellite radio talk show. Cohen represents District 9.
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And that is the pimple faced gov’t employee who has never been to Med School who will be determining our HC needs if we don’t get OBAMANATIONCARE repealed!
Only to blacks...you should go look at the comments, there were 88 when I posted the article, I skimmed a few, all were of cohen’s thinking....have at it and set the record straight!
You can add pro abortion, anti-gun, MORE TAXES, the man is a total socialist!
Yes, that was implied in my comment. Memphis has a large permanent entitled class who knows enough to elect someone who can guarantee their paycheck. Steve is oh so good at playing the part. He seems well versed in the ‘vitriol’ to keep the pot stirred.
The irony of the Klan having been formed in Tennessee by his Party kind of escape this Marxist moron.
Isn’t Cohen in a predominantly black district? And haven’t some Dem black leaders been calling for him to be repalced by a black?
Population (2000) 632,143
Median income $33,806
Ethnicity 36.1% White, 59.7% Black, 1.5% Asian, 3.0% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American, 0.3% other
Cohen is playing to the fears of his constituents. He has, to use an analogy, be "more Catholic than the Pope" if he wants to continue to be reelected. His biggest challenge will come from a black Dem who wants his seat.
How about: MEDIA: STOP ATTACKING MAINSTREAM AMERICA
The tea party doesn’t need to defend itself from charges of racism. Their better response would have been to reply that Rep. Cohen was doing a splendid impression of Joseph Goebbels. Cohen would have been sputtering and on the defensive.
We have GOT to pay more attention to the nitwits we are electing. I’ll give BO this- his election has allowed some of our worst nutballs the chance to show themselves. Guam tipping over, reps with absolutely no knowledge of their OWN history, voices in their heads calling them “ni&&#^), and Grayson...no wonder other countries think we are losing our collective minds.
“Cohen obviously lacks the intellectual heft to address the issues at hand.”
Totally agree! Every single smear against the Tea Party must be challenged. Call these people out, and force them to provide evidence or apologize in a forum as public as the one in which they dished out slander.
The one and only person who may have standing is the guy accused of spitting. His face has been plastered all over the news. He may not have a case, because the accusers have backed off their statements. However, they have not publicly cleared his name.
The phantom person who allegedly said the “N” word does not exist, and therefore has no standing.
Have you noticed that the new talking points are that anyone who does not support the health care bill is “racist” because by not supporting the health care bill they are denying health care to blacks? What a crock!
The problem with comparing someone to Joseph Goebbels, is that not enough of the brain dead out there know who Goebbels was to make the point effective. And that’s by design. The last thing our wonderful govt schools would ever teach is the identity of the totalitarian propagandists of history, for fear that some of the sheeple might come to recognize some of those in the administration and in the MSM for what they are.
Yes, the former crazy 70 year old mayor of Memphis king willie herenton. BUT his CONSERVATIVE opponent is a black business woman, Charlotte Bergmann.
Or maybe READ A HISTORY BOOK! George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT!
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