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Tom Tancredo: "Sonia Sotomayor Appears To Be A Racist"

Posted by EU Times on Aug 8th, 2009 // No Comment

Rick Sanchez brings on Tom Tancredo and Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert to discuss the right’s accusations that Sonia Sotomayor is a racist and should be disqualified from serving on the Supreme Court. Today Tancredo decided his dose of the crazy on The Ed Schultz Show just wasn’t enough and takes it a step further.

h/t Think Progress for the transcript

TANCREDO: If you belong to an organization called La Raza, in this case, which is, from my point of view anyway, nothing more than a Latino — it’s a counterpart — a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses. If you belong to something like that in a way that’s going to convince me and a lot of other people that it’s got nothing to do with race. Even though the logo of La Raza is “All for the race. Nothing for the rest.” What does that tell you?

SANCHEZ: Alright. We’re not talking about — we’re not talking about La Raza –

TANCREDO: She’s a member! She’s a member of La Raza!

Thankfully Media Matters’ Boehlert was there for a dose of sanity and called out Rick Sanchez who was still quoting Sotomayor out of context and corrects him for his error. Boehlert, the author of the great book “Bloggers on the Bus,” called the attacks on Sotomayor a “rush to the gutter by the right”. You can watch the entire exchange courtesy of Media Matters here.

John Amato:

I ask once again. Why is Tom Tancredo on my TV? It’s all for “conflict.” He has nothing to offer and is no longer part of the GOP. He’s a former anti-Latino House Republican who ran for president on a racist platform. He’s there to call Sonia a racist. That’s his function and it’s one that he performs well. He’s the Mozart of Racism.

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