Interloper tricks anti-immigration Tea Party audience, begins chants of ‘Columbus go home!’ (UPDATED)
Interloper tricks anti-immigration Tea Party audience, begins chants of ‘Columbus go home!’ (UPDATED)
UPDATE: In another video of the event showing a different angle, it shows that the people joining in Erickson’s chant weren’t the Tea Party protesters, but pro-reform protesters. The Tea Party protesters seemed to have caught onto Erickson’s stunt by this time.
On Saturday, a few dozen anti-immigration activists gathered on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol for a Tea Party, part of the nationwide effort by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). But somehow, one of the counter-protesters, a “concerned citizen from Minneapolis” named “Robert Erickson,” manged to get on the speaking list. His address started with the standard anti-immigrant rhetoric, but then revealed that he was talking about European immigrants. By this time, however, the crowd was in a frenzy and joined him in his chants of “Columbus go home!” and “Europeans out!”:
Let’s send these European immigrants back where they came from! I don’t care if they are Polish, Irish, English, Italian, or Norwegian! European immigrants are responsible for the most violent and heinous crimes in the history of the world, including genocide and slavery! Its time to restore the sovereignty of people native to this land! I want more workplace raids, starting with the big banks downtown.
Christopher Day at DailyKos notes, “The Tea-Baggers seem pretty clueless, and for the most part don’t even seem to realize they have been punk’d.”
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classic false flag operation showing just how dumb these people are.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pmLOL1 I don’t think punking ‘tea-Baggers’ is a hard thing to do. They have the intelligence level of a 3 year old.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pmBrilliant.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pmYikes. The teabaggers really ARE pathetic lemmings, willing to cling onto any deranged ideology, so long as someone shouts it loud enough.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:45 pmThese are the people who would run this country? Their heros are just as clueless as they are and a hell of a lot more dangerous If there is a higher power it should protect us from these a**clowns
November 16th, 2009 at 1:45 pmit’s kinda like picking on retards isn’t it?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pmYabut the East India trading company was British and they did trigger the Boston Tea Party!!
November 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pmI wonder if these people realize they were punk’d even now. “Europeans out!” That will play well over the Pond.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:47 pmSomeone referring to themself as “Robert Erickson” wants Europeans thrown out ?
Hope he himself has a nice , dry place to land when he gets the old heave-ho ……..
November 16th, 2009 at 1:49 pmI wonder how many of the crowd even knew who Columbus was?
Sadly, probably not many.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pmThat’s pure gold…
November 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pmPlease be sure to bring up the fact that this wasn’t without its share of unrest afterwards. From what Crooks & Liars reported, there were some fisticuffs that came afterwards when the tea-partiers realized they were PWNED.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pmI’ve watched this video three times. The second two times, with popcorn!
It is a truly inspiring act on Mr. Erickson’s part and should rattle these Christian GOP thug hatemongers to the core – although I doubt it will since they have no shame.
Play it again, Robert.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:52 pmI’m sure they think he was an undocumented worker from Columbia.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:52 pm.
Pavlov’s dog is sooooooooo jealous.
“Enough is enough”
“Not going to take it anymore”
“Secure our borders”
“End the anarchy sweeping the Nation”
“Protect the sovereignty of America”
“Hold politicians accountable”
“Immigrants bring crime and diseases”
“Big Bankers downtown”
… Just don’t take my gun!!!
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:53 pmDon’t crush the teabaggers just yet. They still have their usefulness in splintering the GOP.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:53 pmthis post misses the most important part;
when the teabaggers realized they were punked the attacked the people who punked them
then the police actually pushed back the ant tea baggers who were being attacked rather then the tea baggers doing the attacking
crooks and liars has the whole episode
November 16th, 2009 at 1:54 pmfrom crooks and liars;
November 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Wow.. actual proof that these teabaggers have been infected with the stupid virus.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pm.
Perter Falk played that Columbo-who guy?
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:55 pmHere’s the link to the C&L article mentioned by perris:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/teabaggers-punkd-anti-racists-who-ge
November 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pmRobert Erickson:
YOU BE DA MAN!
h/t Michelle “I’m a f***ing Lunatic” Bachman
November 16th, 2009 at 1:57 pmKudos to the kid who pwned them, but teabaggers aren’t the sharpest of knives in the drawer.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:59 pmPRICELESS ! AND YES I AM SHOUTING !
November 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pmToo funny!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:01 pmGullible lemmings. Absolutely hilarious!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pmErickson certainly pulled the teabags over their eyes.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm“concerned citizen from Minneapolis” named “Robert Erickson,”
Unless the bastard is Native American, he needs to be at the head of the exit line. How stupid can one person be… the name Erickson is obviously Scandinavian….get the hell out of here, Robert.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:04 pmAgain… the vetting process goes awry!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pmapropos of the teabaggers mentality:
I saw my landlady (who is very nice to me and with whom I get along well) had a brand new truck, King Cab, huge improvement over the old one and I remarked upon it.
“Oh yes” she said, well you know the old still had a couple of years left in it, but the price was so good on this one I couldn’t pass it–we got it through ‘Cash for Clunkers’”
“So” I said, “the Democrats aren’t so bad after all, are they?”
“Well, the trouble is, we still have to pay taxes on it” she replied.
This is why I drink.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pmAnd just look at the crowd. Mostly over made-up white bit*hes. And older dudes.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pmThat’s so funny. Preying on the ignorance of the ignorant. These baggers have always reminded me of The Simpsons mob, so quick to light torches and raise their pitchforks, based on some unintelligible chant.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pmDefinitely more fun than a Michelle Bachmann ‘press conference’.
‘Hi, I’m a Teabagger, & I’m against anything & everything’…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm5th Estate says:
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apropos of the teabaggers mentality:
I saw my landlady (who is very nice to me and with whom I get along well) had a brand new truck, King Cab, huge improvement over the old one and I remarked upon it.
“Oh yes” she said, well you know the old still had a couple of years left in it, but the price was so good on this one I couldn’t pass it–we got it through ‘Cash for Clunkers’”
“So” I said, “the Democrats aren’t so bad after all, are they?”
“Well, the trouble is, we still have to pay taxes on it” she replied.
This is why I drink.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
If the price is so good , you should ask her if she ever considered trading herself in …….Or if her husband has.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEQU485wJc
Another view, brilliant…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pmHaha!
HAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI wonder how many people of Irish, English, Polish, Norwegian and Italian descent were at the rally. Ater all, I didn’t see any NATIVE Americans. Did you?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
noseeum says:
“Erickson certainly pulled the teabags over their eyes.”
DING!
DING!
DING!
DING!
We have a winner!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pmHilarious, noseeum!
Absolutely hilarious!
STOEM@38, YOU have no business calling anyone ignorant.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pmThe right are unable to appreciate sarcasm or parody. It might tie into a lack of intellectual curiosity. The tea party set are sheep. It doesn’t much seem to matter who is doing the leading nor even in which direction they are being led as long as they are perceived as one of them.
Another example of their inability to understand sarcasm:
November 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pmhttp://www.tips-q.com/1597100-they-just-dont-get-satire
storm, they were smart enough to win in 06 and 08.
and your link to weekly standard is sad, unreliable, partisan lies. That’s what they do at weekly standard.
You got nothing but airballs as usual.
Were you at the teaparty mentioned as the topic for disscussion on this thread? I’m betting you were.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pmPercentage of TP bloggers who believe Storm is a moronic jackass ……….110
November 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
glogrrl says:
November 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pmI think you missed something along the way, glogrrl…
Is the American electorate now part of the vast left wing conspiracy?
drop and give me 20
November 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pmThis is worth of MAD magazine.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:19 pmApparently it is time to cull the herd….It is deer hunting season in Minn. the teaparty folks are just the type that load up on booze and drink themselves blind while they are carrying a gun loaded with real ammo out in the woods…….
November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pmSTORMinhispants….sh!t storm that is.
Typical teabagger, dim bulb, very low wattage, not to bright.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm“Robert Erickson”
He sounds like more of an Al Franken kind of Minnesotan, speaking in front of the Michele Bachmann kind of Minnesotans. My kinda guy…
ot: haven’t seen spencersmom commenting – anyone? Her comments are favorites…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pmDRIZZLE,
Need we trot out the countless polls that prove right-wingers and FoxNews watchers overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Huessein was behind 9/11 and that the majority of the world backed our unilateral invasion?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pmPew research? Weekly sub-Standard? Stormtrooper, you’ve gotta do better than that. If it were to be true though STORM, what does it say about you? You are daily de-bunked by a group that you consider to be of subordinate intellect to you! You righties sure are funny sometimes!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pmLunaluz, that’s how cheney does it.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI give you credit for trying to at least back up claims with links, STORMie.
What are you trying to tell us? That it’s better to be dumb than smart and ignorant?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:21 pmGood on ‘Erickson’…way to show a crowd how craven they are by catering to their prejudices.
The Republican inability to appreciate humor and irony coupled with their lack of self reflection enables their gullibility.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:21 pmWe all know that the teabaggers are just mindless parrots, incapable of independent thought, but I’m sort of amazed that they would be so willing to prove it.
Of course, when you have no brain cells, you don’t know the difference.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pmRobert Erickson may be descended from America’s true founder, Leif Erickson.
Once again, America’s youth knows bullshit when they hear it. That’s why The Daily Show has higher ratings than ‘news’ in the same time slot.
Teabaggers’ fate is intertwined with the fate of the Republic party.
And we all know where that’s going!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Make it stop! Teh stupid from these people is hurting me!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pmStorm says:
Calling progressive’s ignorant, and this coming from someone as smart as a bag of hammers. Now that’s funny…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSTORMfront the ignorant racist punkass troll tries to derail another thread. The stupid pile of dogshit is truly to mentally challenged to even grasp the concept of a topic. Just STFU you ignorant punk
November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSTORM says:
Keep prayin’, stormy… keep prayin’
(you gotta distract yourself somehow, huh?)
How do you feel about returning all Europeans?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSTORM, FLAGGED OT SPAMMING.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pmIndeed he does, Fred ;)
November 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pmSTORM says:
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Is PEW now part of the vast right wing conspiracy?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
J.H. Pew retired from Sunoco in 1970, and died the following year. Since his death, the Pew Family foundations continued to push their agenda by founding and/or funding such reactionary groups as:
* American Enterprise Institute: This conservative think tank was founded in 1943. It moved much farther right when donations increased 10-fold in the 1970s. It is now an arch-conservative lobby group with ties to Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Jeane Kirkpatrick, John Borke, Charles Murray, Elliot Abrams, Dick Cheney and his wife.
* Heritage Foundation: Created in 1973 by Joseph Coors, a racist, homophobic, anti-labour brewer; right-winger Paul Weyrich; and industrialists Richard Scaife and Ed Noble.
* British-American Project for the Successor Generation: Founded in 1985 by devotees of Reagan and Thatcher, it grooms right-wing U.S. and British youth as leaders.
* The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: Founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became Reagan’s CIA director, it promotes privatization, deregulation and cuts to social welfare programs.
Shut up , you ignorant sack of shit ………
November 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pmSTORM says:
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Fred says:
STORM says:
Is PEW now part of the vast right wing conspiracy?
Is the American electorate now part of the vast left wing conspiracy?
drop and give me 20
How are those Obowma campaign promises working out for ya?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
How’d Bush’s godawful presidency work out for the country , you anti-American shitbag ?
November 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pmWe don’t need polls to show how dumb STORM’s people are, we have VIDEO.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pmHey STORMY, “I know you are but what am I” trolling is really the most pathethic. Trolls are the biggest losers and you’re the worst of them. Surely you qualify for some kind of disability coverage.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:28 pm@68. Nope he gets nothing, it’s a “pre-existing condition”.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pmLunaluz says:
Apparently it is time to cull the herd….It is deer hunting season in Minn.
True. we just finished our season yesterday.
I once saw a guy on my land during hunting season, drinking the last of a pint of something. When finished, he hung the bottle on a willow branch next to him…that was his second mistake.
He then turned to urinate. As the bottle exploded off the branch from my rifle shot, he urinated all over himself.
I then calmly urged him to proceed directly off my land, and if I ever saw him or anyone else drinking while trespassing, the next one may not be as lucky.
He didn’t even pull his pants all the way up as he took off running.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:30 pmFCUKING IDIOTS.
and they were chanting all the way back to their trailers..
‘columbus go home!’
probly brought a tear to their eye..
November 16th, 2009 at 2:38 pmThe same people who vetted Palin must have vetted Mr Erickson. God! you just can’t make this shit up if you tried.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:44 pmCan I get a big ol Nelson Muntz Haw! Haw.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pmHar-dee-har-haw!
Robert Erickson, you the Man!
November 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pmThey called him stormy Monday,but Tuesday he’s just as bad
Oh, they called him, they called him stormy monday,
But Tuesday, Tuesday he’s just as bad
Oh, Wednesday he’s worst And Thursday he’s really just oh so sad
ht/BB King.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:57 pm“Let’s send these European immigrants back where they came from! I don’t care if they are Polish, Irish, English, Italian, or Norwegian!”
He should’ve thrown in a couple fictional european countries for good measure. Lower Slobovia and East Munchkinland, for example.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pmIt’s okay…It seems that the stimuli-response mechanism works more profoundly in these people…Don’t they ever think?!
http://img63.imageshack.us/i/farsideme0.jpg/
November 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pmShayne says:
Hey STORMY, “I know you are but what am I” trolling is really the most pathethic. Trolls are the biggest losers and you’re the worst of them. Surely you qualify for some kind of disability coverage.
That’s saying a lot…we’ve had rape-apologists galore blaming the victim lately…
November 16th, 2009 at 3:07 pmI hope Rachel picks up on this.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pmAnd, once again, the local “liberal media” has nothing. No wonder Crazy Shelly (InsaneR-Mn.) keeps getting elected. It makes me sad.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pmSPERM says:
Is PEW…
SQUIRREL!
(Why do I have the distinct feeling that SPERM was one of the tea-baggers to be punk’d?)
November 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pmIs PEW now part of the vast right wing conspiracy?
You mean SPEW?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pmWow. Go Robert. Humor is the best retort for these people.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pmI may have to resort to watching the local news. Yuck!
November 16th, 2009 at 3:35 pmHi STORM:
November 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pmCheck out those jellyfish….
dbadass – jellyfish are edible?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pmyes they are. Dried.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pmThis is simply hilarious.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:02 pmGo, lemmings, go!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
November 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pmGawd I wish I were there.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:27 pmThe update says that the group organizers knew that Erickson was a fake and they let him ‘make a fool of himself’ anyway.
Exscuse me, did I imagine hearing people shouting “Columbus go home!” ?
So, who were the fools?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:31 pmAlehandjob
YOU are simply stupid
November 16th, 2009 at 4:48 pmYou’re not mistaken he got them to chant “Columbus go home!”
If anyone out there is a Native you must have crapped your pants with laughter at what he got White people to chant.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pmNow, compare what Amanda Terkel tells you to my discussion of the incident.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pmThere are very few human behaviors that remain constant but, the reaction of a fool to being faced with proof-positive of their foolishness comes close. A duped fool like Ms. Hendrycks invariably says, “I wasn’t duped”, even though she obviously had no idea the guy had duped her until her “tweet” a short time ago.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:56 pm94:
November 16th, 2009 at 5:05 pmIt appears that noone really cares that much what your thoughts on the issue are… Sorry that I am the messenger…
To address your points, 2008…
More of the “pro-American” bullcrap from the right. I think you missed the irony of his point. He was using your standard lines against so-called “illegal immigrants” to point out the history of how America came to be. Whether you like it or not, the history against those who settled here way before Columbus ever “discovered” America is not as picture-perfect as you would like for it to be.How do you define pro-American? By mindlessly accepting what America has done and cheering her on? My country good or bad? No, there are legitimate critiques of what America is doing and it is not America-hating to point it out. We can embrace our history not by hiding the bad under the rug in favor of only embracing the good, but rather looking at it from a balanced point of view in order to learn from it. America has made progress when it has come to dealing with racism, but there is still a long way to go. There is nothing wrong with pointing that out.
It is quite blatant to see you distort the liberal position when it comes to immigration. There are voices from our camp calling for the focus to be put on employers who exploit these people. By calling for amnesty and a path to citizenship, we can bring them into the so-called mainstream, and put them on a level playing field with workers born here. That is a straw man itself to suggest we are on the side of corporations by “supporting” “illegal immigration.”
It seems that the teabagger movement may claim to be diverse, but the numbers belie that “Truth.” That is not to say that the whole movement is racist, of course not. However, as it is with every movement, the loudest and most-observed voices are not necessarily the ones the movement wants out there. With your group, unfortunately, those voices are the ones who then bring out the stereotype that the teabagger movement is virulently racist. Same thing with the conservative movement. It is one thing to distance themselves from the fringe elements of your movement, it is another to actively call them out and condemn them.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:27 pmSorry, it is a straw man to suggest that liberals support “illegal immigration” to drive down wages for low-wage Americans.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:30 pmAwesome. :D
November 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm“We Like Roy”!
November 16th, 2009 at 6:03 pmLove this guy. Let’s see more of these tactics, showing teabaggers as the morons they are.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:57 pmMy bad…..brain is fried from being unemployed and looking for a job.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:28 pm“Our group was not duped! Jeffers and I knew he would make a fool of himself up there and we let him!”
Oh yea? Is that why you brainless sheep where chanting along with him?
November 16th, 2009 at 10:54 pmSTORM says:
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PEW Research confirms that Democrats aren’t dumb, just ignorant
In news that will surely shock liberals across the fruited plain, Democrats are ignorant.
According to a new Pew Research study, they know far less about political matters than Republicans and Independents.
Storm: PEW is slanting the facts. since only 20% identify themselves as republicans (ie mostly old white men) I would expect the dems on averaGE not to know a few things since a lot of younger people identify themselves as dems dont have the civics background as older americans in general and thus pull the average down.
IF they did the research properly I would expect to see the breakdown on age group with party affiliation together not separately. Then you would find that older people in general know more than young people. Just like they proved better educated people know more.
See the statistics dont lie but you can lie with statistics.
Also when you look at what dems didnt know in the research really wasnt worth knowing in a lot of cases. (ie glen beck is a talk show host)
November 17th, 2009 at 12:32 am.
Shorter Ruthie Hendrycks;
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November 17th, 2009 at 12:41 amglogrrl says, “My bad…..brain is fried from being unemployed and looking for a job.”
My heart goes out to you, glogrrl. I lost my job earlier this year. I spent 8 hours every day at my local job center until I was lucky enough to find another one. I know how stressful, frustrating, and depressing it can be.
Good luck to you and never give up.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:16 amThanks for your kind words, delafield, but I think my job is harder than yours because I am of the “older worker” group….nobody wants to hire anybody over 50, and I am waaayyy over. But I keep the faith. And, to noseuum who said,I think you missed something along the way, glogrrl…, considering the major boo-boo of TP about the Mark Shield’s sarcastic comment regarding “a manly man in the President’s office”, I don’t feel so bad! Everyone can have a bad brain day.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:53 pm