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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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Topics: Colorado, Jimmy Lakey, Michelle Obama, Racism, Tom Tancredo

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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Topics: Marcus Epstein, Pat Buchanan, Racism, Tom Tancredo

War On Christmas

The Biggest Battles In This Year's War On Christmas

Rachel Slajda | December 24, 2010, 8:53AM

Every year, there is a war that rages throughout the nation. The 76 percent of Americans who call themselves Christian face a nearly existential threat from the myriad forces that come together to conspire against them. This year, the battles raged on, and TPM was there to document them.

This, friends, is the story of the War on Christmas 2010.

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Topics: Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl, Tom Tancredo, War On Christmas

Tea Parties

Return Of the Repressed? Birtherism, Homophobia, Racial Paranoia Rise To Surface At Tea Party Confab

Zachary Roth | February 8, 2010, 11:38AM

Tea party in Hartford, Connecticut in 2009

The National Tea Party Convention, which wrapped up Saturday night with a televised speech by Sarah Palin, offered an outlet for some of the fouler strands of modern conservatism that had long been bubbling beneath the surface of the Tea Party movement.

Tea Party leaders had worked hard to keep the public face of the movement focused tightly on a small government, anti-tax message, largely steering clear of social issues, and appeals based explicitly on race. But this weekend, from the podium at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel, convention speakers espoused birtherism, anti-immigrant nativism, homophobia, Christian fundamentalism, and an apparent nostalgia for racially discriminatory barriers to voting.

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Topics: Birthers, Joseph Farah, Racism, Rick Scarborough, Right-wing extremism, Roy Moore, Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, Tea Party Patriots, Tom Tancredo

Tancredo: Obama Elected Because 'We Do Not Have A Civics, Literacy Test'

Zachary Roth | February 5, 2010, 10:44AM

Fmr. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)

Organizers of the National Tea Party Convention, who have been at pains to present their confab as a gathering of patriotic and mainstream Americans, may not have been pleased by the speech given by their opening-night speaker.

Former congressman Tom Tancredo declared that President Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

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Topics: Barack Obama, Racism, Tea Parties, Tom Tancredo

Fort Hood Shootings

Muslim Mafia Author: Now Is The Time For A 'Backlash' Against Muslims

Justin Elliott | November 9, 2009, 3:51PM

Muslim Mafia Co-Author David Gaubatz and Major Nidal Malik Hasan

A conservative author whose book was touted just last month by four Republican members of Congress is explicitly calling for a "backlash" against American Muslims in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.

Dave Gaubatz, author of Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America, made the comment in a semi-coherent interview with the group Family Security Matters.

In assigning collective blame for the Fort Hood killings, Gaubatz said: