Kevin Harpham

Harpham's White Supremacist Prison Pen Pal Thinks MLK Parade Bomber Was Set Up

Ryan J. Reilly | January 27, 2012, 6:10AM

Less than a week after 36-year-old Kevin Harpham was arrested for allegedly attempting a racially motivated bombing of a 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Spokane, white supremacist leader Glenn Miller sent him a letter offering to help start a legal fund on his behalf.

"Keep your chin up and stay strong," Miller wrote in a letter dated March 14, telling Harpham that he and other members of an online white supremacist forum believed he'd "been set up."

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Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan: 'Militant Gay Rights Groups' And Van Jones Behind My MSNBC Troubles

Jillian Rayfield | January 11, 2012, 12:54PM

Pat Buchanan's explanation for his problems at MSNBC is exactly what you might expect: "Militant gay rights groups" and "people of color, Van Jones" are responsible.

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Judson Phillips

Tea Party Nation Head Defends Pat Buchanan: The Real 'Racist Nuts' Are In Color Of Change

Jillian Rayfield | October 26, 2011, 11:18AM

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips defended Pat Buchanan against charges of racism by African-American civil rights group Color of Change, arguing that "the racist in this story is the group, the Color of Change."

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Pat Buchanan

Twelve Pretty Racist Or Just Crazy Quotes From Pat Buchanan's New Book

Jillian Rayfield | October 24, 2011, 5:20AM

Pundit and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan's new book, "Suicide Of A Superpower," is a veritable treasure trove of eye-popping assertions about the decline of America at the hand of increased diversity and multiculturalism.

TPM went through and picked out some highlights, so that you really really don't have to.

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Jimmy Lakey

CO Radio Host And Former House Candidate Compares Michelle Obama To Chewbacca

Jillian Rayfield | October 4, 2011, 12:36PM

CO radio host Jimmy Lakey

A conservative radio host in Colorado told a story on air about how someone made a comment about Chewbacca, and everyone in the room knew the reference was to Michelle Obama. "Everyone drew the conclusion. And I've tested it -- I've done group testing and I've said if I say Chewbacca what do you think?"

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Marcus Epstein

Pat Buchanan Book Gives Special Thanks To Infamous Racist Karate Chopper

Jillian Rayfield | September 29, 2011, 4:26PM

In his upcoming book, Pat Buchanan gives special thanks to his researcher Marcus Epstein -- a former staffer for Tom Tancredo who became infamous for a racist karate chopping incident in 2007.

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Orange County

OC GOPer Apologizes For Obama-As-Chimp Pic, Says 'I Am Not A Racist'

Jillian Rayfield | April 19, 2011, 4:42PM

Orange County Republican party official Marilyn Davenport has apologized for sending out a picture of President Obama as a chimp, beside chimp parents.

In an e-mail sent Monday night to fellow members of the Orange County Republican Central Committee, Davenport wrote: "To my fellow Americans and to everyone else who has seen this email I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness of my unwise behavior. I say unwise because at the time I received and forwarded the email, I didn't stop to think about the historic implications and other examples of how this could be offensive."

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Orange County

Orange Co. GOPer Says Obama-As-Chimp Pic Was Just A Joke Meant For Friends

Jillian Rayfield | April 18, 2011, 10:36AM

Orange County Republican party official Marilyn Davenport has sort-of apologized for sending out a racist picture of President Obama depicting him as a chimp being held by his chimp parents: "I'm sorry if my email offended anyone. I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth."

She added: "Again, for those select few who might be truly offended by viewing a copy of an email I sent to a select list of friends and acquaintances, unlike the liberal left when they do the same, I offer my sincere apologies to you--the email was not meant for you."

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Sharia

Anti-Sharia Bill Introduced In Georgia

Eric Lach | February 10, 2011, 11:50AM

Republican lawmakers in Georgia have Sharia on their minds.

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Terrorism

Aryan Nations: We Didn't Plant MLK Parade Bomb. We're Waiting For The Race War (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | January 25, 2011, 10:47AM

Morris Gulett, leader of the Aryan Nations

The leader of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist group once strong in the Northwest, has condemned the planting of a bomb along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., and says his group isn't responsible.

Morris Gulett, the leader of the group, said in a six-minute video press release that he condemns any violence that could harm innocent children.

"We absolutely do not condone this type of activity, but emphatically do condemn the use of force and terror," he said. Gulett said he was responding to those who've speculated that the Aryan Nations was responsible for the bomb.

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Terry Jones

British Anti-Islam Group: Terry Jones Is Too Radical For Us

Jillian Rayfield | December 15, 2010, 8:36AM

Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center

A British anti-Islam group is denying reports that Pastor Terry Jones will be speaking at their event in February, claiming that they "disapprove" of his thwarted plan to burn copies of the Koran last September 11.

Though the English Defence League does not condone Jones' infamous plan, it might not be for the reasons you think. "We do not believe the Koran should be burned, but rather read, so that people come to understand its inherent violence, supremacism, and hatred and contempt for non-Muslims," the group wrote on its Facebook page.

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Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas' Alma Mater Ends Diversity Award Named After Her

Eric Lach | December 9, 2010, 8:30AM

Helen Thomas

Retired journalist Helen Thomas reignited the controversy regarding her views about Jews and Israel last week at an Arab-American workshop in Dearborn, Michigan. Thomas, who was forced to apologize and retire last spring after saying Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home," said in a speech last week that "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists."

In response, Wayne State University announced it would end the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award.

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Dean Grose

Ex-Los Alamitos Mayor Who Sent Racist 'Watermelons-Growing-At-White-House' Email Is Running Again

Jillian Rayfield | October 26, 2010, 8:47AM

Dean Grose, member of the Orange County 67th District Republican Central Committee

Dean Grose used to be Mayor and a City Councilman in Los Alamitos, California. In 2009, Grose resigned from both his positions after sending a racist email depicting watermelons growing on the lawn of the White House. Now, Grose is running for his old City Council seat once again.

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Justice Department

Sheriff Joe's Lawyer: DOJ 'Fishing Around' for Evidence to 'Gin Up' Civil Rights Violation

Ryan J. Reilly | August 18, 2010, 10:09AM

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Robert Driscoll

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio did not meet a Tuesday deadline to turn over documents to the Justice Department in their investigation into allegations that his immigration enforcement policies in Arizona are discriminatory.

Earlier this month, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas E. Perez sent a letter to Arpaio's attorneys telling them that Arpaio had until Tuesday to voluntarily turn over documents. Perez wrote that if Arpaio did not cooperate, DOJ would file a civil action under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to compel access to the requested documents, facilities and personnel.

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Tea Party Comix

Creator Of Racist 'Tea Party Comix' Speaks: I Do Hate Obama, But I'm No Racist

Evan McMorris-Santoro | August 2, 2010, 9:52AM

A Tea Party crowd with a a Tea Party Comix inset.

The creator of the now-infamous "Tea Party Comix" has spoken. The response, sent to Comics With Problems' Ethan Persoff last week, ends speculation by some that the black-and-white comics featuring a racist caricature of President Obama might be a liberal parody gone wrong (or just misunderstood). In the rambling email sent early Thursday morning, the unnamed creator of the comics (the name was withheld by Persoff) suggests that they were created out of anger at Obama, but -- according to the creator -- not out of any intention to make a racial statement.

"I do not understand the connection with 'big ears' and 'racism', and I do not understand how a 'dark face' implies racism," the creator of the comics wrote to Persoff. "The accusation of 'Hate' is true, but it is the hate of an IDEOLGY [sic], not a of race of people..... I understand that the ideology has captured 80 or 90% of the race(s) in question, but it is STILL a AN IDEOLOGY and NOT a "race" that this comic book attacks."

Despite the denial of any racist intent, the creator told Persoff the comics are just too hot to handle and are being removed from sale.

A number of tea party leaders disavowed the comic books last week, claiming that they're an obvious plant by tea party opponents.

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Tea Party Comix

The Strange Case Of The Mysterious Uber-Racist 'Tea Party Comix'

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 30, 2010, 5:02PM

Tea Party Comics

The progressive webscape has been alight for the past couple days with the story of a truly amazing bit of racism -- the Tea Party Comix. These black and white pages, resembling one of those free zines the nerds among us used to pore through before the days of blogs, are reigniting the debate over tea party racism in the days before the movement's latest diversity-themed event.

Today, some top tea partiers are disavowing the truly impressively bigoted comic books, claiming that they're an obvious plant by tea party opponents. But at the same time, no one seems to know much about them. The mystery is still unsolved and the comics remain.

The books were first flagged by Ethan Persoff, the comic book blogger who brought us the hilarious Defense Department Don't Ask, Don't Tell explanation comic book "Dignity and Respect." Pershoff told Rachel Maddow's blog that he bought the first issue of the comic (there are at least three) somewhere in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Here's a taste of what that looked like:

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Commission On Civil Rights

Commission on Civil Rights: Protecting America From (Reverse) Racism

Rachel Slajda | July 28, 2010, 8:46AM

Gerald Reynolds, chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' investigation into the New Black Panthers case -- specifically, whether racial bias played a role in the Justice Department's decision to close the case -- is part of a pattern at the commission: A pattern of investigating almost exclusively, for lack of a better word, reverse racism.

The conservative majority on the commission, as well as former DOJ lawyer J. Christian Adams and much of the right-wing (including many Republican senators), believe that black members of the New Black Panther Party engaged in widespread intimidation of white voters on Election Day 2008. Further, according to Adams, the Obama administration is purposely dropping cases against black defendants in a blanket policy of pro-black racism.

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Shirley Sherrod

Breitbart Feels Sorry For Shirley Sherrod (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | July 21, 2010, 11:52AM

Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart, who posted the clip of USDA official Shirley Sherrod that got her fired, said today that he feels sorry for Sherrod.

"I feel bad that they made this about her, and I feel sorry that they made this about her," he told MSNBC. "Watching how they've misconstrued, how the media has misconstrued the intention behind this, I do feel a sympathy for her plight."

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Shirley Sherrod

Vilsack Reconsidering On Sherrod, But Does She Even Want Her Job Back?

Rachel Slajda | July 21, 2010, 9:14AM

Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod

In a statement sent at 2 a.m. today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack backed off his previous statements defending the forced resignation of Georgia rural development director Shirley Sherrod and said he's willing to reconsider.

"I am of course willing and will conduct a thorough review and consider additional facts to ensure to the American people we are providing services in a fair and equitable manner," Vilsack said.

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Shirley Sherrod

WATCH: Full Video Of Sherrod's Speech

Rachel Slajda | July 20, 2010, 7:40PM

Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod

The NAACP just posted the full video of Shirley Sherrod's speech in front of the Coffee County NAACP this past March.

The relevant part starts about 16 minutes in. Sherrod is talking about how her father was killed by a white man when she was 17; that night, she says, she made a commitment to stay in the South and work toward change.

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Shirley Sherrod

Sherrod Says Her Father Was Killed By A White Farmer

Rachel Slajda | July 20, 2010, 6:52PM

In one of her interviews with CNN today, Shirley Sherrod said that 45 years ago, her father was killed by a white farmer.

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NAACP

NAACP Backs Off After Watching Full Tape: 'We Were Snookered'

Rachel Slajda | July 20, 2010, 6:21PM

Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod

In a new statement, NAACP president Ben Jealous has backed off his original criticism of Shirley Sherrod after watching the full tape of her remarks.

Jealous, who originally called Sherrod's actions "shameful," now says the whole thing a "teachable moment."

Jealous said that, after reviewing the full tape (which we still haven't seen) and speaking to Sherrod and the white farmers in question, the NAACP has realized it was "snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias."

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Mark Williams

Tea Party Express' Sal Russo: Mark Williams Is No Longer Affiliated With Our PAC

Eric Lach | July 20, 2010, 2:26PM

Tea Party Express spokesperson Mark Williams.

Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams' 'accidental' racism continues to have big consequences -- the tea party group that he's long been the public face of is now pretty much disavowing him.

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Tea Party Express

Tea Party Express' Mark Williams: King Of 'Accidental' Racism

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 19, 2010, 12:50PM

Tea Party activist Mark Williams.

Is the Tea Party Express' Mark Williams a racist? He certainly says he's not. But Williams -- the spokesman for one of the tea party movement's most Republican establishment-connected groups -- has shown himself to be a virtuoso when it comes to, I guess accidentally, writing and saying racist things. (Two quick examples: There was that time he called Muslims "animals of Allah" in an email and that other time he called President Obama an "Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug" on camera.)

This week, Williams' accidentally racist chickens have come home to roost. After posting one of his most overtly racist (accidentally, I guess) statements ever to his personal website after the NAACP passed a resolution calling on national tea party leaders like Williams to condemn racist rhetoric seen at tea party rallies in the past, Williams has found himself ostracized by a growing number of tea party groups across the country.

Not even his friends are standing up for him now. It's a surprising end for the man who helped to transform the tea party into a Republican political force.

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Rand Paul

FLASHBACK: Paul Campaign Spokesman Resigned Over Racism On Myspace Page

Justin Elliott | May 20, 2010, 2:44PM

Chris Hightower (left), former spokesman for Rand Paul, and his band Commander

Controversy is swirling over Rand Paul's doctrinaire libertarian take on the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. But this is not the first time the Kentucky Republican's campaign has hit a bump in racially sensitive territory.

In December, Chris Hightower, the spokesman for Paul's senate campaign, was forced to resign after a liberal Kentucky blog discovered that his MySpace page had a comment posted around Martin Luther King Day that read: "HAPPY N***ER DAY!!!" above what appears to be a historical photo of the lynching of a black man.

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Mark Williams

Tea Party Leader: 'Islam Is A 7th Century Death Cult Coughed Up By A Psychotic Pedophile'

Zachary Roth | May 20, 2010, 10:13AM

Mark Williams

In an apparent bid to stoke further controversy, the Tea Party leader who last week referred to Allah as a "Monkey God" has apologized -- but to Hindus, not Muslims. And in an earlier blog post, now removed, he refers to Islam as a "7th Century Death Cult coughed up by a psychotic pedophile."

Mark Williams, the conservative radio talker and chair of the Tea Party Express yesterday posted an "apology" for the "Monkey God" post he wrote last week:

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Mark Williams

Tea Party Leader: Allah Is 'Monkey God'

Zachary Roth | May 18, 2010, 5:35PM

Mark Williams

A top Tea Party leader, enraged by a plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, has referred to the Islamic deity as a "monkey-god" and to Muslims as "the animals of allah." His Tea Party group, meanwhile, tells TPMmuckraker it's not concerned about the rhetoric.

Mark Williams, the conservative talk radio host who is listed as chairman of the Tea Party Express and acts as a frequent spokesman for the group, wrote on his blog Friday:

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David McKalip

Doctor Who Sent Racist Email Hosting Fundraiser For Black GOP Candidate

Zachary Roth | May 14, 2010, 11:17AM

Dr. David McKalip

Florida neurosurgeon David McKalip -- who was in hot water last year after we published an email he sent that showed President Obama dressed as a witch doctor -- will host an event for an African-American GOP candidate for Congress. The candidate says he didn't find the witch doctor image offensive.

McKalip will co-host a fundraiser at a St. Petersburg sports bar next weekend for Eddie Adams Jr., who is seeking the GOP nomination to take on Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) this fall, reports the St. Petersburg Times.

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Stephen DeMaura

GOP Operative Behind 'Despicable' Anti-Halter Ad

Zachary Roth | May 10, 2010, 10:23AM

Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter (D)

A hard-hitting TV ad that has been widely denounced as offensive could have an impact in next week's hard-fought Democratic primary election in Arkansas. The group behind the ad is run by an up-and-coming GOP operative, but won't say who's funding it.

The GOP-tied conservative advocacy group Americans for Job Security has said it's spending $900,000 -- a hefty sum in the state's relatively inexpensive media market -- to run a TV ad that accuses Lt. Gov. Bill Halter of shipping jobs to India when he helped run a tech company. On top of stereotypical "Indian" images and music, actors playing Indians thank Halter. The candidate has called the ads "despicable," and even his opponent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, has labeled them "offensive."

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AZ Immigation Law

'Stunning' Clause In AZ Immigration Law Lets Citizens Sue Govt For Lack Of Enforcement

Zachary Roth | April 28, 2010, 6:45PM

Illegal immigrants are searched before being deported

A highly unusual provision of the Arizona immigration bill -- and one that has flown largely under the radar until now -- could take police resources away from violent crimes in favor of immigration enforcement, as well as triggering a flood of time-consuming lawsuits. One expert calls the provision "stunning."

A clause of the bill, signed last week by Governor Jan Brewer, allows Arizona citizens to file suit against any government entity that "adopts or implements a policy or practice that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law."

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Carl Paladino

NY Gov Candidate On Racist Emails: 'That Activity Is Not Carl Paladino'

Zachary Roth | April 15, 2010, 6:31PM

Carl Paladino

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for New York governor who was caught this week forwarding racist and pornographic emails, apologized again yesterday.

"That activity is not Carl Paladino," said the wealthy real estate developer at a town hall event on Staten Island.

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Brian "Sonny" Thomas

Local Tea Party Leader Who Suggested Shooting Hispanics Now Is Wanted By Cops -- Tweets: 'Arm Yourself'

Zachary Roth | April 14, 2010, 3:35PM

A crowd gathers at a tea party

Police are searching for a local Tea Party leader in Ohio who is wanted for violating a temporary protection order. Meanwhile, speakers at a Tea Party rally organized by the man, Brian "Sonny" Thomas, have pulled out after he suggested in a tweet that he wanted to shoot Hispanic immigrants -- then blaming it on a Bee Gees song.

Thomas is the founder and president of the Springboro Tea Party in southwest Ohio. He faces a misdemeanor charge after recently going to the home of the mother of his son, in violation of a protection order. The woman had previously told police that their son had returned from Thomas's home with bruises.

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Carl Paladino

New York GOPer Who Forwarded Racist Emails Reports Bomb Threat From 'Black Militant Group'

Zachary Roth | April 14, 2010, 9:44AM

Carl Paladino

A "black militant" phoned the campaign headquarters of New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and threatened to "bomb all of you," according to the campaign -- just a day after Paladino was accused of sending a slew of racist emails.

Campaign manager Michael Caputo said the caller told a campaign volunteer that he was with a "black militant group." When the volunteer asked what group, the caller hung up.

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Carl Paladino

Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality

Zachary Roth | April 12, 2010, 11:39AM

Carl Paladino

An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York, to a long list of political and business associates. One email shows a video of an African tribal dance, entitled "Obama Inauguration Rehearsal," while another depicts hardcore bestiality.

Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, would not comment on specific emails, but acknowledged to TPMmuckraker that Paladino had sent emails that were "off-color" and "politically incorrect," saying that few such emails represented the candidate's own opinion. Caputo accused Democrats of wanting to change the subject from substantive issues to "having sex with horses."

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Right-wing extremism

Going To Extremes: The Obama Era's Top Ten Anti-Government Flare-Ups

Zachary Roth | April 1, 2010, 6:35PM

Clockwise from top left: David Stone, Sr., John Patrick Bedell, Joseph Stack and James von Brunn

The charges filed this week against nine members of the Hutaree Christian militia group have re-focused attention on the resurgence over the last year or so of the broader militia movement.

That resurgence has been driven in part, say experts, by the election of President Obama. But during the Obama era, threats of anti-government violence -- and even the real thing -- have become more widespread. In fact, with disaffected Americans from Massachusetts to California freaking out against the Feds en masse, it sometimes seems that going postal has become all the rage. Of course, in some cases, that anti-government animus long predates the election of our current president. But there seems to be something about the current climate that's contributing to the rash of incidents.

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Hutaree

Accused Christian Militia Member Posted Video Last Year: 'I'm Just A Simple Militant ... What's Wrong With That?'

Zachary Roth | March 29, 2010, 2:37PM

"Pale Horse" (left), seen in an Ohio Militia video

We already told you that one of the members of a Christian militia group charged today with "seditious conspiracy" in connection to an alleged plot to kill law enforcement appears to be the extremist who over the last 18 months created widely-viewed videos that warn "our country is in peril" and urge people to take up arms and march on Washington. And it now appears that that same militia member -- Kristopher Sickles, who goes by the name of "Pale Horse" -- posted a third video in which he lambasted the "corporate media" for its coverage of the militia movement.

The video, posted last August to YouTube and still available, sheds further light on the mindset and philosophy of at least one of the nine Hutaree members accused today of conspiring to kill police officers, then bomb their funeral in a bid to kill more law enforcement personnel, as part of a plot to "oppose by force the authority of the U.S. government."

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Tea Parties

Feeling The Heat, Tea Partiers Denounce Violence

Zachary Roth | March 26, 2010, 1:12PM

Tea party in Hartford, Connecticut in 2009

Tea Partiers and others on the right are starting to distance themselves from the recent spate of violence and racism that has characterized the opposition to health-care reform.

In a letter to President Obama and Congress released yesterday, an alliance of Florida Tea Party groups called the Tea Party movement "a peaceful movement" and declared that they "stand in stark opposition to any person using derogatory characterizations, threats of violence, or disparaging terms toward members of Congress or the President."

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Tea Parties

Is There A Tea Party Movement?

Zachary Roth | March 24, 2010, 12:59PM

Tea party in Washington, D.C.

At first it seems absurd even to ask the question in the title. After all, the emergence of the Tea Partiers has been among the hottest political stories of the past year, and the group just came within inches of stymieing President Obama's major agenda item.

But lately, it's begun to appear that the Tea Partiers -- at least as defined by the media -- aren't so much a new force of previously apolitical regular folks, stirred from their apathy by an expansion of government and Rick Santelli's famous rant. Rather, they're essentially conservative Republican base voters, who were demoralized by the failures of the Bush years and have been re-energized by Democratic control of Washington. And they're part of a strain of the conservative movement that has long been driven by cultural resentment and racial paranoia.

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Mark Williams

Tea Party Leader On Obama: 'Our Half White, Racist President'

Zachary Roth | February 23, 2010, 9:48AM

Mark Williams

A top Tea Party leader derided Barack Obama as "our half white, racist president" in an email to colleagues.

Mark Williams, the conservative talk radio host who has become a prominent spokesman for the Tea Party Express, sent an email in September -- obtained by TPMmuckraker -- to other leaders of the group, in which he appeared to be responding to charges of racism against himself.

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Dale Robertson

'Warning: Tea Party In Danger': Leader Slams Palin As 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'

Zachary Roth | February 12, 2010, 9:59AM

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement "is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party," and slamming Sarah Palin as representing "a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party."

Dale Robertson, the founder of TeaParty.org, is just the latest Tea Partier to express concern that the movement is being hijacked by the GOP.

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