Tag: Andrew Breitbart

Breitbart Hosts Tea Bagger Rally in Beverly Hills and Racism Breaks Out

Jon Ponder

Yeah, big shock. I know.

In August, the RNC abruptly canceled a fundraiser in Beverly Hills that was to be headlined — not by GOP top-draw candidates like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina — but by one of the new lead GOP race-baiters, Andrew Breitbart.

Man with tea bags stapled to hat photographed by Los Angeles Times at Beverly Hills tea party rally in September 2010
Man with tea bags stapled to hat photographed by Los Angeles Times at Beverly Hills tea party rally in September 2010
Breitbart was all over the news at the time because his fingerprints were all over the racist scandals confronting the GOP and its Fox channel on cable, including particularly the video that had bee deceptively edited to portray Shirley Sherrod, a civil rights activist and federal employee, as being racist toward white people. The RNC insisted then that the fundraiser would be rescheduled, but, as I predicted then, “…it’s safe to say the RNC is rescheduling its Breitbart fundraiser for either the 12th of Never or possibly the 14th of Not-Gonna-Happen.”

It wasn’t a fundraiser, but last weekend, Breitbart did attend a tea bagger rally in Beverly Hills. There were a few celebrities there — if you define “celebrity” down to people lower in Hollywood claim to fame than the Kardashians, by which I mean Pat Boone and Victoria Jackson.

(And this was literally a tea bagger rally, as the Los Angeles Times photographed one attendee with tea bags stapled to his headgear.)

Breitbart spoke, of course, as did serveral others but the white people on the stage stood aside to allow one of the few African Americans in the crowd of 200 get to the heart of what animated the tea party movement from the outset and what drew them all together in Beverly Hills that morning:

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Epic Fail: Race-Baiter Breitbart Keynotes Tea Bagger ‘Diversity’ Rally – Even Whites Fail to Show

Jon Ponder

Tea Baggers held a “Uni-Tea” (get it?) rally in Philadelphia last weekend for which the main draw was Andrew Breitbart, the newest racist phenom in tea baggery since, well, two weeks ago when Mark Williams was forced to resign from the Tea Party Express, the Republican Party group that astroturfed the tea party bus tours, after he exposed his own virulent racism in his infamous “Colored People” letter.

So, hosting a rally against racism that starred Breitbart, the David Duke of new media — how do you think that worked out?

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Caught Race Baiting, Breitbart’s Site Blames the People Breitbart Snookered

Jon Ponder

The scandal around the firing of USDA staffer Shirley Sherrod began on Wednesday when Andrew Breitbart, the notorious tea-bagger propagandist, posted a deceptively edited video of a speech Sherrod gave on racism to his website, Big Government. Here’s part of what he wrote about the video then:

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