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To: Wayners who wrote (33916)	7/19/2010 11:36:44 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "These are provocateurs recruited by the left to infiltrate the Tea Party threat to try to discredit the Tea Party." Interesting theory.... (Any proof of that?) Surely you aren't claiming that none of these various white supremacy movements exist independently are you?

To: Wayners who wrote (33916)	7/19/2010 11:38:28 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 103300

National Tea Party Federation Bags Tea Party Express Following Racist Satire by Juli Weiner July 19, 2010, 8:15 AM vanityfair.com The Tea Party Federation has renounced the Tea Party Express following an uncouth satire from the latter’s leader. This past weekend, the Tea Party Express’s Mark Williams ghostwrote a letter from “coloreds” to Abraham Lincoln. “Dear Mr. Lincoln, We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing,” he began. “Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!” A representative from the National Tea Party Federation, a consortium of the movement’s factions, correctly identified the correspondence as “clearly offensive.” The Tea Party Express, however, has so far declined to condemn Williams and in response has been removed from the ranks of the National Tea Party Federation. Williams has not proved to be an especially skilled satirist, student of history, or master of metaphor: for example, previously he’s called Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer a “Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank” in response to Stringer’s support for the construction of a mosque in close proximity to Ground Zero. In response to the National Tea Party Federation’s expulsion of his sect, he called the dumping of the Tea Party Express “grandstanding.” He also said, “[t]here is no tea party leadership; every tea partier is a tea party leader.” In the wake of the NAACP’s accusation that the Tea Party systemically harbors and nurtures “racist elements,” Williams may have a point about his “grandstanding” charge. On the other hand: the entirety of Williams’s recent public statements. See also: “Tea Party for One” by Henry Rollins.