Shocker: Far-Left MSNBC Host Martin Bashir Tears Into Rep. Alan Grayson Over KKK-Tea Party Email

Mediaite.com:

This might come as a surprised to anyone familiar with Martin Bashir‘s usual rhetoric. On Friday afternoon, the MSNBC host tore into Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) for his “inflammatory” fundraising email that compared the Ku Klux Klan to the tea party movement. The congressman continued his defense of the email in spite of outspoken liberal Bashir’s protests. 

Bashir began by noting that he has “some sympathy” for Grayson’s analysis, citing how “over the last five years, we have witnessed plenty of instances of racial hatred toward the president — whether it’s the revoting Rush Limbaugh, the imbecile Sarah Palin, or tea party supporters spewing their hate at various rallies.” However, he asked, “How can you possibly compare racist epithets with racist actions of the KKK, which actually led to racist murders?” 

Grayson responded that “the home of discrimination and bigotry in our country” is the tea party, similar to how, at one point, the KKK was the wellspring of racial hatred years ago. “I’m pleased that we haven’t gone so far as to see those murders,” he said, “but the analogy holds to that degree,” citing the protestor who waved a Confederate flag in front of the White House recently. 

“But how many young black and white civil rights workers has the tea party lynched?” Bashir asked, prompting the congressman to respond: “Sometimes analogies are imperfect.” 

“Do you accept that that may have been an inappropriate analogy?” the MSNBC host pressed. 

“No,” the congressman replied. He suggested that because the NAACP once asked the tea party to remove racists from their midst, and have thus far failed to do so, the analogy holds. 

Bashir attempted to corner Grayson by likening him to some of the more extreme elements of the Republican Party who’ve failed to curtail their own “incendiary” comments. “Don’t you yourself thereby debase your own party by arguing on their level?” the host asked. 

“Do you think that racism is the same as calling out racism?” a baffled Grayson fired back. “Do you think that my effort to end racism in America is somehow analogous to racism itself? That’s ridiculous.” 

Towards the end of the interview, Grayson even suggested that Bashir was in cahoots with the racist elements of the tea party by calling him out in the first place: “The point I’m making is that if you don’t speak out against it, then in effect, you’re collaborating with it,” he said. “And, in fact, if you give someone like me a hard time for speaking out against it, then maybe you’re collaborating with it.”

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Liberal Scumbag Alan Grayson Compares Tea Party To KKK

The only thing Left for this forever-smirking, liberal scumbag is his own show on race-baiting MSNBC:

Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson’s campaign sent out a fundraising email likening the tea party to the Ku Klux Klan, complete with an image of a burning cross.

The email, which went out to supporters yesterday, shows a burning cross — complete with images of two KKK-like figures in the background — used as the “T” in “tea party.” When users click on the image, they’re taken to a fundraising landing page for Grayson’s campaign.

The text of the email is an excerpt from an interview Grayson did with the Rev. Al Sharpton, in which he draws the tea party-KKK comparison.

“At this point, the tea party is no more popular than the Klan,” Grayson says in the interview.

The email praises Grayson’s bluntness and urges supporters to donate to his campaign.

“Congressman Alan Grayson deserves your support, like no one else,” the email says. “He, and only he, is saying the things that you are thinking, and so much need to be said.”

Matt Gorman, rapid response director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, denounced Grayson’s fundraising tactics.

“There’s no excuse for the hateful words and imagery used by Congressman Grayson,” he said in a statement. “House Democrats should swiftly and strongly condemn him and return the money he has raised for them. This hate-filled rhetoric has Americans fed up with Washington.”

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Former KKK Leader Ordained As A Minister For A Black Church In San Diego

No doubt the minute Barry and his minions get a hold of this I'm sure they'll take credit for it.

Democrat Klansman Robert Byrd Refuses To Leave Committee

The 90-year-old geezer from West Virginia showing the same resolve as he probably did burning crosses on Black folks lawns back in the day:

WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd isn't going gently into any good night, despite reports that 15 Senate Democrats have been talking privately about deposing the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman.

Byrd, 90, has been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks and missed a series of votes before the Spring recess.

That has led, according to Roll Call newspaper, to several senators holding "the first of what's likely to be several private discussions" about whether Byrd can handle his duties as the head of the most powerful committee on Capitol Hill — especially at a time when annual appropriations get into full gear.