On Sept 27 I actually defended Tancredo - just to show I can be fair with him.
Do you think I enjoy defending TT? I don't. But darn it all, if I hit wacked out RINOconservatives for being intellectually dishonest, then by golly, I must do the same thing - ergo I must defend TT. The whole sordid affair started, according to Tancredo Watch when a staffer to Third District Congressman John Salazar, Nayeera Haq, wrote to Tancredo complaining that his offer to join God as one of the Pope's advisors was offensive to her faith. In a recap, TT, joining God as one of the Pope's advisors (Is the Pope now required to pray in the director of
The whole thing takes me back to my theory that when a person allows religion and superstition to take the place of reason and thought they degrade themselves. This is the case with Ms. Haq. She has every right to complain about how she is offended by the Pope. I have every right to counter by telling her I am offended by her total lack of reason, thought, and objectivity. I am offended by her offence. I am offended by the very idea that I must temper my thoughts, words, and deeds in a way as not to offend Islam. BIG FAT HARRY DEAL.
Where I disagree with TT, and I seriously do, is the way he handled the situation. It lacks maturity. If he wanted to truly reach out and express his "Christian" faith, he should have contacted the offended young woman and used whole incident for dialogue and look less like a demigogue and more like a statesman. But...wait...we're dealing with TT. Forget adult behavior. The Rocky Mountain News
"...Tancredo’s letter, which included criticisms of specific passages in The Koran, drew a strong response from Nayyera Haq, the Muslim communications director for Rep. John Salazar, D-Manassa. Haq, who said she was speaking only for herself, accused Tancredo of "hateful," irresponsible words that alienate progressive Muslims and merely "throw more fuel on the fire." ..."
TT has the right to express himself. The young woman has a right to express herself. But....and here is where I am afraid TT is right in that he is not backing down from this (behind the) veiled threat of more violence. If Muslims are progressive, they understand the idea of FREEDOM OF SPEECH - and that anyone has the right to say anything about any religion whenever!
And so we have the current demands of "Islamic Rights". These young TWITS now join the ranks of every other 'injured' minority who have become so intellectually impotant that they must now demand rights for themselves by removing the rights of others by threat of violence.
Wed September 13 - Tancredo gets caught in a little SC Racist Mess
The Right Wing News defends Tancredo, then says the following:
As Tancredo Watch rightly points out, there is not a meeting room at the SC Museum that is draped in Confederate flags and memorabilia.
"...The AHHE representative noted that the speech had taken place in the South Carolina State Museum's room devoted to Confederate relics (I'll skip the obvious joke), and that this explained the presence of Confederate paraphernalia during Tancredo's speech. However, the South Carolina State Museum's facility rental page contains snapshots of its various rooms for rent, and none of them shows any Confederate paraphernalia at all -let alone a Confederate-flag-draped podium...."
The way SC was hit a few years ago, they don't have the nerve to even admit SC was part of the Confederacy let alone drape a room with Confederate flags. In fact, the exhibit they have right now about the Civil War Era deals with weapons.
And the Tancredo Watch is correct. I checked out the SC League of the South web page and found the following:
"...Calling All Red Shirts: Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) will be our guest at the Visa Room of the SC State Museum at 11:00 AM, Saturday September 9th. Barbecue will be furnished by Maurice Bessinger's
As you are aware, Congressman Tancredo has led the fight against illegal immigration in Congress. Join us at the State museum for two hours of vital information, fellowship, and good food. The cost of the ticket will cover admission into the museum..."
Americans Have Had Enough is another Tancredo love myself web site. I don't want to get into it right now, but it links back to the usual Tanton miasma of organizations. And, we go back to the Tancredo Watch...
"...Interestingly, the "Americans Have Had Enough" representative, Garland McCoy, claimed to the Post that he was the president and founder of AHHE and that he had "no connection" to Tancredo. However, a
Right Wing News writes the following, complaining about the SPLC piece I covered yesterday. You want to know what makes me really mad. Tancredo gets a pass. Right Wing News is so quick to call the SPLC on lies, that they really don't get into the truth of the story that much. What really frosts my cookies is the fact that it's okay for TT to trash Lindsey, but it's not okay for the SPLC to call Tancredo down for consorting with racists and everything the League of the South has become.
Right Wing News comments:
"...That's why I could not understand why Tom Tancredo would go to a fund raiser run by these clowns. Here's the rub: it turns out that the Southern
The SPLC quote they are so upset about:
"...On the ground floor, a
While Tancredo's hard-line "deport 'em all" stance on immigration has made him a favorite politician of white supremacists, this marked the first time the congressman has appeared at a hate group event.
Dressed casually in a yellow t-shirt, Tancredo addressed the standing-room audience of 200-250 from behind a podium draped in a Confederate battle flag. To the congressman's right, a portrait of Robert E. Lee peered out at the crowd of Minutemen activists, local politicians, and red-shirted members of LOS and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Confederate trappings of the event found a mismatch in Tancredo's standard nativist polemic, which stayed clear of references to Southern heritage or direct plaudits for the LOS, a Southern white nationalist organization dedicated to "Southern independence, complete, full, and total.".."
Now the problem is this: If TT did not have a history of hanging out with various 'racist' and hate groups, I would give The Right Wing News a pass. Unfortunately, either they do not know, or are ignoring the misc. racists in the Tancredo wood pile - something I've repeatedly reported. And you gotta love it when TT is taking money from people who are very much against GWB and the War on Terror!
August 15 - Tancredo Gets Caught about his Military Experience
Colorado Confidential as some big new dirt on Tancredo! (well, not really, but it eventually is funny) And, don't forget - they have one of the juciest archives of TT dirt around.
..."Last year, it was reported that in 1970, after Tancredo's student deferments ran out, he appealed his 1-A draft status, which would have put him at the top of the list for draft eligibility during the Vietnam War. Tancredo said he didn't remember it that way. But he said he was given a 1-Y status, which put him at the bottom of the list, when he reported that he had been treated for mental illness as a teenager. Tancredo said he was diagnosed with depression when he was 16 or 17 and received medication for five years for panic attacks and bouts of anxiety and depression. Because of Tancredo's draft record, Coffman said he specifically asked organizers of the rally whether Tancredo would be speaking..."
Max Blumenthol exposes TT - try this one from the American Family Radio show...
"[13:30]
FEMALE CO-HOST: Our guest to me is like visiting with
John Wayne. He is the epitome of the American guy. He
is it... what I appreciate about Congressman Tancredo
is the fact that he does stand for...like John Wayne
in the movies, he's got that cowboy mentality that i
just love. CO-HOST MARVIN SANDERS: In the back of my mind is this
thought that you were a Marine. Am I right about that?
TANCREDO: No sir, I did not serve. I could not serve,
but I certainly wish that I had that opportunity.FEMALE CO-HOST: He's serving now. That's a fact.
SANDERS: You're like a Marine in the House of
Representatives.
TANCREDO: Well, that's true. We take a lot of flak. I
know that.
SANDERS: I was so engrossed in the [Tancredo's latest] book.
That only adds to that John Wayne image.
[28:00]
SANDERS: I think the Marine image I had in my head was
the Marines played by John Wayne. He [Tancredo] reminds
me so much of John Wayne."
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Tancredo Watch has more fun stuff on our favorite racist RINO conservative Congressperson. Sometimes you just gotta wonder how long he can keep on getting away with stuff. TT's racist slip is showing.
Tancredo and Anti-Immigration
To get an accurate background into what started the whole anti-immigration movement, you need to start with this same press release, which puts all the leading characters into their places. And, once again, we come up with the same cast: Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, and their total hatred of George W. Bush. To understand Tancredo's hatred, you must go back to his feud with Karl Rove.
"...On Thursday evening, the eyes of
PAN aims to require proof of citizenship to register to vote, photo I.D. when voting and proof of eligibility to receive non-federal mandated public benefits. By June 30th, PAN must submit 122,000 valid signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office in order to get it placed on the official voting ballot for the November election. Recently, the signature tally was over 60,000.
One by one, a high-profile parade of speakers strode to the podium to implore Arizonans to make PAN succeed. The only person absent was PAN director Kathy McKee, who is feuding with fellow initiative leaders and is mistrustful of FAIR.
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, the foremost federal lawmaker in fighting the border invasion, flew in to rouse the PAN troops. So did Bay Buchanan, the sister of Pat Buchanan and director of Team America, Los Angeles talk show host Terry Anderson and several members of the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR). Based in
Tancredo said, “I love
The congressman said that President Bush ignited a firestorm of protest in January when he introduced a Temporary Worker Program.
“That prompted a response I’ve never seen,” Tancredo said, “1,000 calls to my office in four hours, 99.999 percent of which were negative. People were saying, ‘I’ve been a Republican all my life and I’m not going to vote for him (President Bush).’”
Pat Buchanan said last week that the president has abandoned that plan.
However, at a Republican congressional retreat in
“It’s the one thing people agree on,” Tancredo said. “People by the throngs say, ‘yes, secure the borders!’ We have two problems to get anything accomplished: the Democratic Party – it’s a source of votes. On the other side we’ve got the Republican Party, which sees a source of cheap labor. These two power brokers are tough to beat. Karl Rove (senior adviser to Bush) and the White House people were at the retreat. At the end of the second day, I went up to speak. There were 30 members in line. Every person who spoke said, ‘this immigration thing … is he (Bush) crazy? Tell him to knock it off!’ ..."