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You almost need a flak jacket to go on an MSNBC show these days - at least judging by the rapid fire attacks displayed on the March 2 "The Dylan Ratigan Show." Either host Dylan Ratigan was trying to play to MSNBC's rabid liberal audience or he really has it in for the Tea Party movement based on some exaggerated notion it is nothing but hate and fear mongers. In an interview with Mark Williams, a conservative talk radio host and sometimes spokesman for the Tea Party Express, Ratigan asked Williams what he was doing to separate his legitimate effort...

The NAACP is calling on Sarah Palin and Dick Armey to forcefully denounce what the civil rights group calls racism in the ranks of the tea party movement. In a call with reporters to tout a new report on some tea partiers' ties to hate groups, NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous slammed the former Alaska governor for working with the Tea Party Express, whose now-expelled leader, Mark Williams, ignited a firestorm earlier this year after a string of racist and anti-Muslim comments. In response to a question from The Upshot, Jealous charged that the Tea Party Express, a prominent tea...

All this time, I have been thinking that the Tea Party is a grassroots movement of American patriots, and that there is no national leadership that controls the movement. All members and groups in the Tea Party are supposed to be equal. Dick Armey's organization, the National Tea Party Federation, recently expelled the Tea Party Express, headed by Mark Williams. I do not remember any election by Tea Party members around the country, that chose Dick Armey to be the national leader of the Tea Party movement. Who does Dick Armey speak for? Does he speak for you, or for...

Last week the NAACP issued a carefully worded letter calling on Tea Party leaders to address racism in their own ranks. The reaction from the extreme right was immediate and vitriolic: "How dare those dirty n- I mean, how dare they?!" Within a few hours, Tea Party supporters flooded the Internet with posts using different variations on the argument that calling someone else racist is itself a racist act. There is, it would seem, a bevy of legal precedent for this, including the famous case of Smelt It v. Dealt It. One Free Republic poster exemplified the Tea Party's new-found...

SARAH  PALIN! Sarah Palin Joins Us to Support the Troops Don't Miss This Historic Event!   Folks, we've just made a huge breakthrough for the troops! Governor Palin has agreed to support our efforts to send the largest care package shipment in history to U.S. Troops.You are the first to hear of this, and YES you heard right... SARAH PALIN is joining YOU, MAF, and the Troops for this momentous outpouring of support for the troops! RUSH LIMBAUGH IS OUR FIRST GUEST SO TUNE IN PROMPTLY AT 1 PM! AND STAY TUNED BECAUSE PALIN FOLLOWS AT 1:45!    TROOPATHON...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 1, 2010 CONTACT: Levi Russel (509) 979 - 6615 levi@frontlinestrat.com Pro-Troop Group Announces Third Annual Drive to Support Military Servicemen and Women Sacramento, Calif. - Move America Forward, the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization is announcing the third annual “Troopathon” which is set to take place July 1st live from the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. The Troopathon is a once-a-year fundraiser held by the group and consists of an 8 hour live video broadcast over the web and radio. This 8 hour live broadcast is hosted by Melanie Morgan, talk...

Partyer in Chief By Joel Stein Monday, Jun. 07, 2010 I don't know much about what the Tea Party stands for, but I do know it's my big chance to gain political power. Moving up in the Democratic or Republican Party would take decades, but the Tea Party is searching for leaders. Getting in on a movement early is how you get to be Sam Adams or Jesse Jackson or Obama Girl.For advice, I called Mark Williams, founder of the Tea Party Express, which raises millions of dollars by traveling in a bus and putting on shows with acts like...

The NY Daily News headline screamed: Tea Party leader Mark Williams says Muslims worship a 'monkey god', blasts Ground Zero mosque Heh. Tea Party Express chairman and radio talk show host Mark Williams didn't pull any punches when he wrote that Muslims worship a "monkey god" in a blogpost protesting the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan. The post is password protected at his site MarkTalk.com, (in a clever bit of marketing, you have to own or purchase Mark's book "Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time" to access the article) but the piece has set off...

SNIPPET: "The leadership of the Tea Party Express PAC came to the National Press Club on Thursday to herald its early successes and to unveil its expanded list of 2010 electoral targets." SNIPPET: "In an effort to show that the Tea Party Express PAC is not a “tool” of the Republican Party, but instead is an independent political force, Russo announced that the PAC is getting behind one conservative Democrat who has opposed President Obama’s agenda: Rep. Walt Minnick (ID-01). The decision to get behind Minnick is attention-grabbing because Republicans have fielded a strong candidate in that race: Iraq war...

SNIPPET: "The Tea Party Express's endorsement of Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) has had little real political impact so far. After the endorsement, TPE's Sal Russo couldn't tell when we might see, say, a TV ad or mailer for Minnick -- although Mark Williams claimed that the group had planned to run ads supportive of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) until he decided to support the final version of health-care reform. So what impact have we seen? A vast and efficient cheesing-off of tea party groups in Idaho."

He just nails it.

Geraldo had just finished running a piece where the Southern Poverty Law Center was the sole voice, attacking all the so called militias as hate groups and lumping in the tea party sentiment into the mix. Of course the reason for all of this ‘hate’ is because we have a black president. When he starts the interview with Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, Williams quickly scolds him for his hit piece and explains that the tea parties are actually victims of ‘hate violence’, not the perpetrators WATCH VIDEO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2010CONTACT: Levi Russell at (509) 979-6615 or Levi@FrontLineStrat.com  Thousands to Attend "Boston Tea Party" with Sarah Palin - Wednesday - 10:00 AMThousands of tea party activists will gather on the Boston Common this Wednesday, April 14th to join Gov. Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express (website: www.TeaPartyExpress.org) for a giant tea party rally.The event takes place this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM.Boston CommonCharles Street at Beacon StreetBoston, MASpeakers and performers will include:*Gov. Sarah Palin*Home Improvement's Jim Labriola*Saturday Night Live's Victoria Jackson*Michael Graham of WTKK - Boston*Todd Feinburg of WRKO - Boston*Mark Williams & Amy Kremer - Tea Party Express Leaders*Darla...

We're on a 'RINO' hunt, Tea Party Express leader says Posted: April 11th, 2010 04:16 PM ET From CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis Lansing, Michigan (CNN) – A leader of the Tea Party movement has a warning for Republicans: the conservative grassroots movement intends to clean house in the Republican Party. “We need to purge the Republicans of the weaklings,” Tea Party Express 3 Chairman Mark Williams told CNN. “And we’re on a...RINO hunt. And we’re going to drive them to extinction.” “RINO” - “Republicans in name only” – is a bit of a political slur within the GOP that...

This is a great Greg-alogue by Gutfeld from the Red Eye show last night. Or early this morning. Check it out here Link to Fox video

No Blow is Too Low Written by Melanie Morgan    Thursday, 04 March 2010 12:26 Lloyd Marcus, an unhyphenated black American responds to attack on Mark Williams, spokesman for the Tea Party Express, by Dylan Ratigan at MSNBC: "..As a black proud Tea Party patriot, I am extremely offended by MSNBC TV show host Dylan Ratigan's baseless accusation that the Tea Party Movement (my white brother and sister fellow patriots) embraces Nazis and racists. Ratigan's attack epitomizes the liberal media's commitment to protect Obama and his radical agenda at all costs. They have a genuine disdain for freedom, capitalism...

As a black proud Tea Party patriot, I am extremely offended by MSNBC TV show host Dylan Ratigan's baseless accusation that the Tea Party Movement (my white brother and sister fellow patriots) embraces Nazis and racists. Ratigan's attack epitomizes the liberal media's commitment to protect Obama and his radical agenda at all costs. They have a genuine disdain for freedom, capitalism and We The People. No tactic is too low. Ratigan's rant:While interviewing (really badgering) Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express, outrageously Ratigan attempted to portray the bus tour as a far right hate group supportive of the killing...

MSNBC Host blows cork, Mark Williams walks off show  The part I loved the most was that the host – a nobody named Dylan RATigan had his producer call he at 6:30 this morning to be on the show at 1:00 PM my time.  After I walked off the air (or was thrown, leftie blogs say I was thrown, I thought I walked but then again I cannot see the program when I am on, all I see is a camera lens pointed at me) he went into a rant about how I “used” him and his show  LOL! As Holly,...

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Tuesday night got visibly annoyed with radio host Mark Williams for daring to bring up the Hardball host’s famous assertion that Barack Obama gave him a "thrill" up his leg. After Matthews goaded Williams and suggested he didn’t know the name of the Republican leadership in Congress, Williams paraphrased, "Chris, you're making my legs tingle!" Matthews, who only seconds before had been smiling as he mocked the host, became flustered: "See, this is- this is. I’m going to- What do you mean? How is your leg? What do you mean? Your leg’s tingling? I don’t get...

Here is video of "Tea Party Express" organizer Mark Williams telling Chris Matthews "you're making my leg tingle." He said this at about 4:40 into the video. Williams made the comment after Chris Matthews wouldn't let him speak and told him "you don't even know who you're talking about." (Video)