Anti-immigration Tea Party activists attempt to distance themselves from neo-Nazis.
Anti-immigration Tea Party activists attempt to distance themselves from neo-Nazis.
On Saturday, approximately 200 people showed up to the anti-immigration “No Amnesty” tea party rally organized by American Citizens United in Phoenix. Many people were holding signs that had phrases such as “America not Amexico.” At one point there was a “tussle” when neo-Nazis showed up and tried to join the event, holding a Hitler banner and waving a Confederate flag with the “Don’t Tread on Me” Tea Party symbol. When a Tea Party activist confronted the group, one of the neo-Nazis pushed him to the ground. “If you assault me, you get assaulted back,” he said as police intervened. Watch it:
The Phoenix rally appeared to be part of a larger nationwide effort by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), which organized anti-immigration Tea Parties on Saturday to stop the effort to “destroy America through mass illegal immigration and amnesty.” As Andrea Nill explains in today’s Progress Report, “Right-wing nativists continue to confuse sensible immigration reform with ‘amnesty’ and anti-immigrant groups are exploiting the anger of the right-wing Tea Party movement in an effort to recruit more supporters to join their hateful cause.” Despite American Citizens United’s attempts to distance itself from the neo-Nazis, the Phoenix New Times’ Stephen Lemons says “there’s plenty of overlap between the two groups, whether it be in rhetoric or, occasionally, membership.” (HT: Dawn Teo)
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Sorry Tea-baggers, it’s too late for that.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:09 pmTurds of a feather…just sayin.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:11 pmDistance themselves?
How far do they think they can get when they’ve already wrapped themselves over, around, under and through the racist mentality that the neo-nazis represent?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pmThe people who hang signs equating the President to Hitler are offended by people who hang signs of Hitler.
Oh, delicious irony.
I guess the overt racism of the neo-Nazis offended the sensibilities of the teabaggers (with their covert racism).
November 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pmWow, infighting among the facists! Cool
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Maybe they will take care of each other for us.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:13 pmQ: What’s the difference between Neo-Cons & Neo-Nazis?
A: Nothing.
I realize immigration in AZ is a bigger issue than here in MN, but when your Party is in desperate need of people to show up at rallies and you welcome Aryan Nation supporters, WTF do you THINK is going to happen?
And yes, Lou Dobbs remains an idiot…
November 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pmI must admit that I’ve always been mind boggled by the neo-nazis. The tea baggers and hate radio hosts like O’Reilly and Dobbs do use rhetoric that might make you think they should be aligned with groups like this. But, to actually embrace the symbolism and costumes of the nazi party requires a certain amount of forthright goofiness that goes beyond your run of the mill bigot.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:14 pmWhen you find Neo-Nazi’s eager to ride the coattails of your movement, you should KNOW something is wrong with your position.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:17 pmThe Teabaggers have embraced totally the racist line, so it’s way too late for them to distance themselves from its more virulent practitioners.
There is a legitimate case to be made against the constant funding and sweetheart deals for the corporations at the expense of the little guy, but the Teabaggers are too tainted by all the other inane crap espoused by the hard right.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:17 pmThe neo-nazis know they have the same agenda as teabaggers. The teabaggers are so dumb they don’t see it. Now that’s funny.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pm“America not Amexico”
I never realized that America was originally associated with the culture of the country known as “Merica”. I thought it was named after the immigrant Amerigo Vespucci. I have been seriously misled, I guess.
/snark off
November 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pmIf it quacks like a duck…
November 16th, 2009 at 12:20 pmDamn, and it seemed like a match made in Heaven.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:21 pmzxbe says: Damn, and it seemed like a match made in Heaven
A homopolitical marriage?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pmThe blind fighting the blind.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pmI thought those teabaggers were so tough they could handle those neo-nazis no problems. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pmThe teabaggers are 100% angry white people who stupidly embrace all sorts of nonsense because of their disenfranchisement, ironically at the hands of the corporate industrial white elites who have destroyed the way of life that the teabaggers remember.
White fat cats removed the jobs from these white people, and shipped the jobs overseas.
What do the poor whites do?
They blame the non-whites in this nation for this crap.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pmYou reap what you sow–
November 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pmWhen you lay down with dogs..
Michele Bachmann needs to hold another “press conference” on this issue.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pmWe are not racists we just don’t want those dirty disease ridden Mexicans in our country…..Canadians are OK though unless they are brown. /sarcasm
November 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pmThe Republican Party just got some more new recruits. They’ll fit right.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:25 pmThe logic of these people is mind boggling
November 16th, 2009 at 12:26 pmHow is it that a right wing that views a black man in the White house as a scandal get upset when the nazis show up? The only difference is the nazis have the spine to be honest about what they really think. Either way, it makes me ill.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:27 pmPLC
To my knowledge Amerigo Vespucci was a third rate map maker not an immigrant. In fact for most of his life he was a banker for the Medici bankers. He was most known for being the first to say he had personally taken a trip from the top of Canada to the bottom of South America and that it WASNT a group of islands rather a continent. A voyage that demonstrably did NOT happen. He claimed to have taken six trips to America it is unlikely he ever took more than two IF those. One of the great mysteries of our time is why these two continents would be named after the guy
November 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pmBirds of a feather…
November 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pmTwo whack groups in the same whack party. I’m so confused.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pmHateful white guys hating each other, nice.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:30 pmLooks like the teabag movement is about done, only about 30 people showed up. If course the tea bagger will say it was about 300,000.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pmI put McCain, McConnell, Pawlenty, Palin, Cheney, Rove, Matalin, Bush and the rest of the repiggies right in with the neo-Nazis and the racists in the Teabagger ranks.
Birds of a feather, and all that…
November 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pmSean Hannity, the reigning size queen at FoxNews, will claim the crowd was 200% bigger than it actually was.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Rufus
We already KNOW you are stupid but PLEASE tell me you arent THAT stupid. There was NOTHING liberal OR socialist about the Nazis. The REAL socialist party in Germany was the Social Democratic party and Hitler put THEM in concentration camps right next to Jews and homosexuals. If you are hellbent on PROVING you are a moron by all means. I do love to laugh at people as stupid as you but really you only embarass yourself. There are a whole lot of intelligent educated people here. You wont pass ignorant bilgewater like that off without being laughed at
November 16th, 2009 at 12:38 pm☭☭ Rufus Leaking 卐卐
They’re all the same to dufus.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pmRufus the Dufus, Hitler stole the swastika design and gave it his own meaning. He did the same thing with the term “socialist” and YOU agree with HIS meaning.
BTW, isn’t it ironic that it was an African Amnerican cop who had the duty to break up the fight between the NeoNazi and the Teabagger?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Worth repeating:
Myth: Hitler was a leftist.
Fact: Nearly all of Hitler’s beliefs placed him on the far right.
Many conservatives accuse Hitler of being a leftist, on the grounds that his party was named “National Socialist.” But socialism requires worker ownership and control of the means of production. In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Nazi party and state. True socialism does not advocate such economic dictatorship — it can only be democratic. Hitler’s other political beliefs place him almost always on the far right. He advocated racism over racial tolerance, eugenics over freedom of reproduction, merit over equality, competition over cooperation, power politics and militarism over pacifism, dictatorship over democracy, capitalism over Marxism, realism over idealism, nationalism over internationalism, exclusiveness over inclusiveness, common sense over theory or science, pragmatism over principle, and even held friendly relations with the Church, even though he was an atheist.
Read the full article here.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:41 pmLiberals don’t round up Communists, trade unionists, anarchists, gays and non-conformists and lock them up for years in camps for “reparative therapy.”
The Nazis were deeply conservative socially, and were appalled at the Germany they thought was getting too decadent and spinning out of control.
Rufus, are you crazy, or just too goddamned stupid to crack a book sometime?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:42 pmWhat’s too funny is that if all Mexicans were deported these McDonald’s chomping inbred hicks would starve to death. If you go to rural America white trash stopped planting vegetable gardens the day they started getting food stamps. These same ignoramuses aren’t going to slave in somebody’s kitchen when they can stay at home and collect their disability checks.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:42 pmhey rufus, where is your lover alex? I think it’s so romantic that you guys met here.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:43 pmIf Hitler was a leftist why did W’s grandfather Prescott Bush get in bed with him? Look it up Leaky, I’ll wait.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pmRufus
Are you really claiming worker means socialist?? OK so then you ARE that stupid. Do THIS math Troll=MORON=Rufus
November 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pmroofisleaking is so naive that he thinks hitler was honest.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pmYes, your rufus leaking but it’s not rain going in that’s the problem, it’s the brain matter going out.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:45 pmWhen Hitler became Reichskanzler in January 1933, the liberals who could began to flee the Third Reich.
Those who couldn’t were arrested and jailed in labor camps, and their property was confiscated.
Some were murdered by the brownshirts, and their deaths were labelled as suicides.
Is Rufus parroting what is being taught in these holy roller diploma mills masquerading as legitimate universities?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:46 pmRufus Rufus Rufus,
You’re just not very intelligent, are ya?
First off, “liberalism” and “socialism” aren’t the same thing. Take a course in comparative politics. Or just look up “liberalism” on wikipedia.
Second, National Socialists killed real socialists. Socialism is a utopian ideology and is anathema to National Socialism.
Third, you’re an idiot. It’s been said before, but it needs to be reinforced.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:46 pmRufus
I guess you must be stupid enough to think the Republic of China means China is ruled by Republicans. Really you DEFINE stupid
November 16th, 2009 at 12:46 pmrufus
loofas
dufus
Sounds like a chant for the low information voters if I ever heard one.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Here Leaky, I found you a Fox News link so you can’t complain about a left leaning source so you can find out who the Nazi sympathizers have always been. Fox News Link.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pmRufus
My GOD you are stupid. AND delusional. No such thing has been proven. Did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor because we were stopping their national healthcare somehow? How stupid can you possibly be to believe such obvious tripe that only the most brainwashed morons imaginable could take seriously? What did healthcare have to do with the Riechstag fire? Really you are just embarassingly ignorant
November 16th, 2009 at 12:49 pmOh poor Leaky, you do take the short bus to school don’t you.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:49 pmrufus and the right think hitler was a socialist.
It’s like the republicans “clean air initiative” which was no such thing.
hitler lied, republicans lie. they have to.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pmOk, so it’s obvious Rufus is a parody. But, much like the “Not Another ______” movies, he’s painfully ignorant and incredibly unfunny.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:51 pmThere has been demonstrated so often an eerie link between the FoxNews rhetoric and that of Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
The Nazis were on the far-right, and readily made deals with the non-Jewish corporate elites of Germany.
Like the right-wingers today, they appropriated certain words such as socialism,
November 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pmand utterly perverted their meaning.
Nazis and wingers are both anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-communist, anti-liberal, anti-labor union, jingoistic, and pro-gun*.
*the American Nazi Party is adamantly pro-gun.
One-Termer
November 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pmmust’ve been workin their side of the street..
November 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pmRight Fred, rightwingers believe Hitler was a socialist but then again they believe in clean coal.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pmFred, Gene, Shayne, guys wake up! WW ll was all about health care, that’s been proven. I’ll wait while you look it up.
Oh man, I thought I’d heard stupid before, but Rufus man, this little gem right here, pretty much negated all the tylenol I’ve taken this morning. You actually have the capability to cause pain with your stupidity.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pmWhere’d the Leaker go?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pmDo you suppose he’s reading up on Grandpappy Prescott?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:58 pmWhy are these ultra right wingers so angry? They have only been out of power for 11 months, and. They are not marginalized. They are not voiceless. I just don’t get this anger.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pmthe nazi party also wanted prayer in school
November 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pmI agree uni, that kind of parody is no better than the worst troll….
November 16th, 2009 at 1:03 pmAnti-immigration Tea Party activists attempt to distance themselves from neo-Nazis.
Family squabbles are so embarrassing, and just before the holidays. Tsk, tsk.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pmI love this story ..
You can understand why the Nazi’s were confused..
They’re like ‘What? We hate Obama.. you hate Obama..what’s the problem?‘
and then.. the even funnier part – the hicks thinking the Nazi’s were makin them look bad…
isn’t that just a hoot.
I’m sure they got together afterword and did a happy goose step.. traded pamphlets.. the whole deal.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pmSo….when do the Teabaggers start picking vegetables and fruit?
With all the illegals gone, who’s going to pick the produce for our grocery stores?
Any takers, teabaggers?
Want to start working off some of that blubber and fat?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:07 pmNo. In right-wing Republican alternate reality, Prescott Bush never existed.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pmFred,
I’m with ya..for the most part. The vast majority of our parody trolls are just too dumb to make any point/get any laughs.
What The GOP Really Means might be the lone exception..
November 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pmThe teabaggers and neo-nazis are protesting against the government when in fact, they should be protesting against the large corporations who are responsible for the illegal immigration. The companies via the Bush admininstration caused the problem because they wanted these immigrants to help keep wages down and to replace American workers. It is no small coincidence that the first foreign leader GWB met was Vincente Fox of Mexico. I would surmise that Bush told Fox he would not make any great effort to stop illegal immigration because it benefited both countries. The second part is that the Bush Labor Department never really cracked down on companies that hired illegals. The Bush admin gave a wink and a nod to the corporate interests. This was just a part of the Republicans plan to affect labor policies without directly challenging them in Congress. Now the Republicans are trying to exploit the anti-immigration groups doe votes. These teabaggers and neo-nazis are not very bright because they are being used now by the same corporations. I wonder if it would help them to draw a map for these idiots.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pmlux
Their side of the street
THAT was classic
November 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pmAnybody ever pay any attention to all the work Mexicans do. Unlike teabaggers I can’t tell which are legal or illegal just by looking at them. All I know is up here in the Chicago suburbs without Mexicans it would look like a third world country. People cutting their own graas! I don’t think so!
November 16th, 2009 at 1:18 pmHitler got his country virtually destroyed its amazing that people cling to his ideology which got lots and lots of caucasians killed by caucasians..not very aryan of him.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pmRacist Turf War, the Teabaggers don’t want to be upstaged! What a bunch of twits!
November 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pmSo, according to RufusDufus’ logicI suppose the Iraqi Republican Guard were all republicans?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:26 pmSo Rufus, explain what a jumbo shrimp is.
tony and lido
Did the teabaggers reject the Nazis because they were liberal? Did they want to dissociate themselves from the Nazi-hippies? This could be a teachable moment.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pmSorry Baggers. But the comparison of you and the Nati group is apt.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:36 pmMany people were holding signs that had phrases such as “America not Amexico.”
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Do these idiots know that “America” is a land mass consisting of two continents (North America and South America), and not a country?
Do they know that in this context, Mexico is as much “America” as the USA is? (for that matter, so are Costa Rica, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada, etc.) Have they ever heard of the OAS (Organization of American States)?
These twits need to realize that we are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. That’s the actual name of our country. We don’t have a monopoly on the “America” name.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pmmissmolly, you have to remember that these are the same people who used the money from President Obama’s middle class tax cut to got to Washington to protest higher taxes.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pmNeo-Nazi – “Splitters”
Teabagger – “I want to be called Loretta.”
November 16th, 2009 at 1:56 pmToo bad the tea baggers and neo-Nazis didn’t bring their assault rifles with them. I would pay $5 to watch that tussle.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pmdelafield, the sight of that many toes blown off would be worth twice that…
November 16th, 2009 at 2:40 pmAhahaha, let the fighting begin! Where’s the popcorn?
November 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pmTea-bagger got mad when he saw an actual picture of Hitler instead of his made up picture of Pres. Obama as Hitler. One could hope both of these clowns destroy each other.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pmNr 66: Now that is a racist comment. All little brown people are veggie pickers???
November 17th, 2009 at 11:49 am