Tea Party leader: Defeat Ellison because he’s Muslim
Founder of Tea Party Nation wants to defeat Keith Ellison because, he suggests, Muslims do not belong in Congress
Justin Elliott FollowTopics: 2010 Elections, War Room, Politics News
Via TPM via the Maddow blog: The leader of one of the three biggest Tea Party groups has called for Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to be defeated this election explicitly because he is Muslim.
The call came in a weekend Web posting not by a fringe member of a Tea Party group, but by Tea Party Nation leader and founder Judson Phillips, a Tennessee attorney. (Tea Party Nation, with over 30,000 online members, is now the third largest Tea Party network, according to an NAACP report.) Phillips asked Tea Party Nation members to support an opponent of Ellison, with this reasoning:
There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax dollars to terrorists in Gaza.
You Might Also Like
(Note: This is actually not accurate. Rep. Andre Carson is also Muslim.)
We’re suprised this isn’t getting more attention. Unlike in the flap over a racist satire written by Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express, Phillips has not withdrawn the post or apologized. It’s hard to imagine that this would not have made more of a splash if Phillips had targeted, say, a Jewish member of Congress for being Jewish or a Mormon member for being Mormon. In any case, we’ve reached out to Phillips on this, and will update this post if we hear back.
You Might Also Like
More Related Stories
- Could Jeb-mentum be real?: The GOP's "low-energy" candidate veers left — and New Hampshire loves it
- The lightweight candidate: Rubio's NH town hall left no doubt he's in it for himself and the plutocrats who fund his campaign
- I went to Marco Rubio's super-sad Super Bowl party so you didn't have to: A tale of six-layer dip and disappearing momentum
- Donald Trump endorses beheading, robotic Marco Rubio self-implodes, and the GOP insanity only gets wilder
- Rudy Giuliani rips Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime as an "outrageous ... attack on police officers"
- David Daleiden's sleaze factory: His latest court defeat exposes how slimy the Center for Medical Progress is
- An open letter to older woman voting for Hillary, from a younger woman voting for Bernie
- The real threat to Wall Street is not Bernie Sanders — it's Donald Trump
- Paul Krugman: Marco Rubio's hilarious repetition is the result of the "Foxification" of the Republican Party
- Dowd, Steinem take the bait: Sexist "catfight" narrative around the Clinton campaign takes hold in latest case of nasty gender politics
- Yet another post-Iowa poll shows Sanders and Clinton tied nationally
- Marco Rubio's repetitive extremism: Yes, he repeats himself — and what comes out of his mouth is straight-up bonkers
- Israeli cleaning company charges based on race and characterizes Arabs as a security threat, according to flier
- In the age of all-American anger: Bernie Sanders, "The Big Short" & a nation that's had it up to here
- Donald Trump boasts he's tough enough to reject Syrian refugee children: "I can look at their faces and say you can't come"
- Sarah Palin bemoans fact that "humble" Trump "dreads getting caught showing his virtues of generosity and compassion" in public
- This is Marco Rubio's last move: He needs to team with Donald Trump now
- The secrets behind the Koch brothers: Inside the remarkable new book that details their dirtiest deeds
- "We don't want that crap": Sanders repudiates sexist "Bernie Bro" supporters
- "I think Super Girl is hot," "Please clap," and "I'm black and I'm proud": 6 times Jeb Bush made you feel extremely uncomfortable and very sorry for him at the same time
- "Miscarriage of justice": A story that's gotten too familiar — 4 years after innocent teen's shooting by cop, family demands action
Featured Slide Shows
- Share on Twitter
- Share on Facebook
- 1 of 13
- Close
- Fullscreen
- Thumbnails
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
- Previous
- Next
-
Recent Slide Shows
- Blood moon magic: 17 amazing images of the supermoon around the world
- "Dick Cheney watches television": The four previously unseen 9/11 photos that will make you hate the evil VP all over again
- Heartbreaking images from Sandra Bland's funeral
- Must-see photos: Never-before seen images inside the White House on September 11
- The best series finales ever
- When marriage is an act of political protest
- Photos from the Happy Ending Salon
- Make Summer More Poetic with These 10 International Works
Related Videos
Most Read
From Around the Web
Presented by Zergnet
-
These microscopic phytoplankton can be seen from space. And they're disappearing rapidly.
-
Actress Aunjanue Ellis wants Mississippi to 'take it down.' It's time they did.
-
5 clever Super Bowl ads that had messages way bigger than football.
-
Taiwan just elected its first female president, and she's a total badass.
-
Some people talk to their plants. These plants talk to each other.
Comments
0 Comments