Like a drowning man clinging to anything that will float, the Left has attempted to focus on self-proclaimed Houston Tea Party "leader," Dale Robertson as a typical example of this grassroots movement. You can read more details in Andrew Ian Dodge's article at Pajamas Media. The real Tea Party Society in Houston issued the following statement:
In response to questions we have received regarding Dale Robertson and his involvement with HoustonTPS, and specifically in reference to his attendance at our rally on 27 Feb 2009, we would like to state that:
1. He is NOT a member of our Leadership team.
2. He owns a website with which we have never been affiliated.
3. He has never been a part of organizing any of the Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, or any other area that we can find.
4. We addressed some issues involving him back in April. Here it is on our website, where Mr. Robertson himself comments: http://houstontps.org/?p=318
5. We do not choose to associate with people that use his type of disgusting language.
The following is a comment from two Pajamas Media readers:
Tex Taylor:
Standard M.O. of the left and their Saul Alinsky toadies. Find one loon, advertise him as flag bearer of the cause, parrot the line by utilizing the MSM and Soros goon organizations until fiction becomes fact. Not much different than old Pravda.
As an Evangelical, we have been fighting this battle with the left of making Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell standard bearers of Evangelicals for years, when they were anything but. Some of it has to do with the left’s utter ignorance; more of it has to do with their ill intent.
When you can’t win the battle of ideas on a level playing field, tilt the field to slope way left.
P T Bull:
Its appropriate to express conservative disavowal of someone using the N-word, but we ought not wring our hands about it overmuch. There is no way on god’s green earth in this generation that any significant percentage of blacks will ever believe that conservatives are not racist. We ought focus on the substantive issues knowing that we will never prevail on the race issue, at least as far as Old Media coverage of conservatism goes.
I will note that by the liberal definition of racism–objecting to institutional pro-minority racism that ‘cures’ historical anti-minority racism–conservatives are indeed racist, as they believe in a color-blind society. As Bush amply demonstrated with a black national security advisor and secretary of state, there are no reasonable means by which a republican can prevent Old Media and black leaders from calling them racist.
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