By Drew Zahn

Internet journalist Andrew Breitbart unleashed a tirade on talk radio yesterday, blasting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its condemnation of tea partiers as “racist,” instead charging the NAACP itself with racism and telling its president where he can “go.”

“Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP: You can go to hell,” Breitbart said. “I have tapes, a tape, of racism, and it’s an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism, and it’s coming from the NAACP.”

Breitbart made the explosive comments on the air with Scott Hennen, who hosts a morning talk show on WZFG 1100 AM in Fargo, N.D.

His comments came in response to a resolution adopted by the 101st annual convention of the NAACP earlier this week, condemning the “racism” of the tea-party movement and claiming it could return the nation to the pre-civil-rights era.

According to a report from KMBC television in Kansas City, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous told his organization’s members tea parties must “expel the bigots and racists in your ranks or take the responsibility for them and their actions.”

“We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards and hide behind signs that say ‘lynch our president’ or anyone else,” Jealous said.

Specific charges within the NAACP resolution, reports the Kansas City Star, include allegations that tea-party supporters have engaged in “explicitly racist behavior,” have “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically” and have used racial epithets in verbally abusing members of Congress.

Breitbart, however, contends that the tea-party movement is about the president’s policies, not his race, and that many of the charges of racist behavior at tea-party rallies are exaggerated. Breitbart has also offered a $100,000 reward for any tangible proof of the epithets that were reportedly launched at black U.S. representatives during a tea-party rally protesting Congress’ health-care reform efforts – a bounty no one has yet been able to claim.

“You are manufacturing this in a summer in which the economy is the No. 1 issue effecting blacks and whites in this country,” Breitbart said of the NAACP. “This country can ill-afford the schism of race to be exploited the way you are, based upon the false premise of the tea party being racist. … This is absolutely manufactured for political gain.”

When Hennen brought up a Washington Times story linking the NAACP to the New Black Panther Party, whose Minister King Samir Shabazz not only escaped federal prosecution for voter intimidation amid much controversy but also called for the killing of “some crackers” and “some of their babies” to gain black freedom from white oppression, Breitbart continued his criticism of the NAACP convention.

“Where is the resolution to condemn the racism coming from the [Black Panthers] and killing cracker babies?” Breitbart asked. “Why is the mainstream media ignoring that story while playing up the non-existent story of the n-word being hurled at congressmen?”

Breitbart joins many voices objecting to the NAACP’s denouncement of racism within the tea-party movement.

“For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the great patriots who have participated in this movement and sadly shows just how out of touch that group is with the American people,” Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told Politico. “Some of the most compelling leaders of this movement are of many different races – men and women such as William and Selena Owens, Lloyd Marcus, Kevin Jackson and others.

“The racism accusation by the likes of the NAACP has been proved false time and again. Earlier this year, Democrats smeared tea-party activists by claiming members of the Black Caucus were spit on and called the n-word as they paraded through a crowd of tea partiers,” he told the publication. “Their blatant lie was proved false by overwhelming evidence from multiple video cameras that recorded the event.”

In a blog posted the day before interviewing Breitbart, Hennen expressed similar sentiments.

“In spite of a coordinated bias by the mainstream media, patriotic Americans continue to assemble throughout the nation in protest of big government policies threatening to undermine our basic liberties,” Hennen writes.

“Maybe you’re one of the thousands of participants who showed up at one of the tea parties this summer. Take a look in the mirror; what do you see? A racist? Or do you see an average, hard-working American, concerned about the future of this republic?” he asked. “I’ve met enough of you at these events to virtually guarantee that it’s the latter.”

WASHINGTON – Angry Fox News executives reportedly ordered Sean Hannity to abandon plans, announced as late as this afternoon on his nationally syndicated radio program, to broadcast his TV show from a Cincinnati tea-party rally he was headlining.

Hannity, on a book tour for his No. 1 best-seller “Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda,” was scheduled to be the featured speaker at a four-hour rally at the University of Cincinnati – with as many as 13,000 in attendance. Proceeds from the event were to benefit a local tea-party organization.

But senior Fox News executives said they were not aware Hannity was being billed as the centerpiece of the event or that tea-party organizers were charging for admission to Hannity’s show as part of the rally. They reportedly first learned of it this morning from John Finley, Hannity’s executive producer, who was in Cincinnati to produce Hannity’s show.

Attendees were being charged a minimum of $5, with seats near Hannity’s set going for $20.

The execs reportedly recalled Hannity to New York to do his show in his regular studio. The network plans to do an extensive post-mortem about the incident with Finley and Hannity’s staff.

“Fox News never agreed to allow the Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to use Sean Hannity’s television program to profit from broadcasting his show from the event,” said Bill Shine, the network’s executive vice president of programming. “When senior executives in New York were made aware of this, we changed our plans for tonight’s show.”

Last week, News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch said before a Washington, D.C. crowd that Fox News should not be supporting the movement.

“I don’t think we should be supporting the Tea Party or any other party,” he said. Earlier this week, the network published an article to its website that was semi-critical of the tea party.

Reached in New York, Hannity declined to comment other than to say he planned to do his show tonight in studio.

source: WorldNetDaily.com…

What an amazing day [April 14th] for great patriots - here’s the aerial footage from the “Boston Tea Party” that we here at the Tea Party Express just hosted with Gov. Sarah Palin.

You - our supporters - made this happen with your donations and volunteer assistance. You all should be so proud! It was a fantastic event. Really incredible. Well over 10,000 people streamed in during the 2 1/2 hour event!!! Watch the aerial footage:

And tomorrow it gets better as the Tea Party Express pulls into Washington, D.C. for a series of events. We invite you to join us if you’ll be in or near the D.C. area.

So what do we do now?

You’re invited to join us for a historic Tea Party Express rally with Gov. Sarah Palin in Boston, MA this Wednesday, April 14th - 10:00 AM at the Boston Common.

This event is free and open to the public. For those who are heading to D.C. for the April 15th “Tax Day Tea Party” it’s a fantastic pre-party.

To get a feel on what to expect for this huge event on Wednesday, here’s a photo from the first Tea Party Express rally with Gov. Sarah Palin that kicked off this tour, in Searchlight, NV:

Comment by American Grand Jury:

I am not going to let go of this issue. I am like Col. Lakin who I have the utmost respect for. Lakin is doing the right thing. He is standing up for freedom and the Constitution.

So where is all the support from the Tea Party websites and groups concerning the “eligibility” issue? None of these groups to my knowledge have done anything “publicly” to support Commander Charles Kerchner, Lt. Commander Terrance Lakin or Dr. James Manning.

All I ever hear about from the National Tea Party groups are send us money so we can put on our shows. I got an urgent message from “Patriotic Resistance” yesterday saying they needed $16,000 immediately to take care of the additional security for the Boston stop.

This time I am not sending them any money. Instead I am sending my donation to LTC Lakin, Commander Kerchner and Pastor Manning.

The Tea Party can put together “tax protests” and “win the vote” contests all day long but until they get their heads together and do something to protect our Constitution by helping with the Lakin pending court martial, the Kerchner lawsuit and the Manning Columbia Trial I am not buying their message.

American Grand Jury endorses the following causes. Please send your money here:

LTC Terry Lakin (defense fund): American Patriot Foundation

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Thank you,
Bob Campbell
American Grand Jury

Opening comment: Yahoo News is notoriously liberal. This is an informative article but in my opinion it is being posted to frighten the liberals and inflame the press. Still, I love the idea. Heck yes! Every State needs to have a strong Militia and National Guard to protect their home turf!

Here’s the story:

OKLAHOMA CITY – Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

Tea party movement leaders say they’ve discussed the idea with several supportive lawmakers and hope to get legislation next year to recognize a new volunteer force. They say the unit would not resemble militia groups that have been raided for allegedly plotting attacks on law enforcement officers.

“Is it scary? It sure is,” said tea party leader Al Gerhart of Oklahoma City, who heads an umbrella group of tea party factions called the Oklahoma Constitutional Alliance. “But when do the states stop rolling over for the federal government?”

Thus far, the discussions have been exploratory. Even the proponents say they don’t know how an armed force would be organized nor how a state-based militia could block federal mandates. Critics also asserted that the force could inflame extremism, and that the National Guard already provides for the state’s military needs.

“Have they heard of the Oklahoma City bombing?” said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma. The state observes the 15th anniversary of the anti-government attack on Monday. Such actions could “throw fuel in the fire of radicals,” he said.

But the militia talks reflect the frustration of some grass roots groups seeking new ways of fighting recent federal initiatives, such as the health reform plan, which requires all citizens to have health insurance. Over the last year, tea party groups across the country have staged rallies and pressured politicians to protest big government and demand reduced public spending.

In strongly conservative states like Oklahoma, some legislators have also discussed further action to fight federal policies, such as state legislation and lawsuits.

State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, a Republican candidate for governor who has appealed for tea party support, said supporters of a state militia have talked to him, and that he believes the citizen unit would be authorized under the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

The founding fathers “were not referring to a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren’t even talking about us having the ability to protect ourselves against each other,” Brogdon said. “The Second Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government.”

Another lawmaker, state Rep. Charles Key, R-Oklahoma City, said he believes there’s a good chance of introducing legislation for a state-authorized militia next year.

Tea party leader J.W. Berry of the Tulsa-based OKforTea began soliciting interest in a state militia through his newsletter under the subject “Buy more guns, more bullets.”

“It’s not a far-right crazy plan or anything like that,” Berry said. “This would be done with the full cooperation of the state Legislature.”

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