Tancredo Claims Sotomayor In "Latino KKK" (VIDEO)

Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and radical anti-immigration activist, stepped up his attacks on judge Sonia Sotomayor Thursday. Appearing on CNN, Tancredo suggested that Sotomayor's affiliation with the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, was equivalent to being a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

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!

The only problem with Tancredo's claim is that "All for the race. Nothing for the rest." is not La Raza's motto. Instead, the group's motto is the utterly uncontroversial "Strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families."

The phrase that Tancredo incorrectly links to Sotomayor is, in fact, found only in the founding documents a wholly different group to which Sotomayor has no known affiliation.

The La Raza claim is just the latest in a series of racially-tinged attacks that conservatives have been making against Sotomayor. On Tuesday, just after President Obama announced Sotomayer's nomination to the Supreme Court, Tancredo told MSNBC's Ed Schultz that Sotomayor has said plenty of "things that are racist."

Indeed, Tancredo, who ran for president in 2008 on an anti-immigration platform, is no stranger to racist comments. One of his campaign ads suggested that illegal immigrants are likely to be terrorists and he has been behind efforts to deport all illegal immigrants from the country and outlaw immigration to the U.S..

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[Red0rGreen]

Another right-winger lying through his teeth to make a point that doesn't exist. Next...

[Aroon]

CNN now is no different from Fox News. The one-sided attacks on anything Obama does are unbelievable. Everyday people like Tancredo are invited to spew their hatred unchallenged.

[Taiyo]

The only reasonable voice on CNN is Jack Cafferty.

[exhale09]

Tancredo is certifiable.

[PC Contrarian]

Welcome to being the political party in power.
Are we having fun yet?

[lapdogs]

In other words, CNN accomplished the goal they set for themselves!

[cheesesteak8]

GOP = Grand Ol' Prejudice

[sense11]

If you see this man crossing the street please run him over.

[dteg]

No real surprise but definitely sad and desperately. On Wednesday, I was pretty sure by Friday republicans would be calling her a terrorist like they have Obama. When you think the republicans can not go any lower they always prove you wrong

[lapdogs]

Hey Tancredo - Keep popping that face of yours up on every TV talk show, News Network and Website!!

And keep "those great words or yours" coming!!

YOU, NEWT, CHENEY and ROVE are doing more to HELP the Democrats DEFINE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY then the Democrats could ever do themselves!!

Keep-up the "great work", all of you!!

[FairTalk]

Alieto, when he was looking to be on the supreme court had some interesting things to say...

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-ussoto2912818200may28,0,7451697.story
But Alito, to show he has empathy, told his own story at his hearing, calling his family immigrants and Italian Americans:

"When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account."

[mjtaylor22]

the sensible people here cannot get more than a few hours on TV a day, it is The crazies that run our media, I remembered when Viacom was buying up all thus stations, did not see this coming, now only 5- 10 companies own every TV station from regular TV to cable.

we are being presented someone’s point of view, and they are so hell bent on dis information and division, they are forgetting that our new is seen world wide also, and that our standing in the world is crashing and burning due to these insane debates,

We have Americans (loosely speaking) defending Torture, our former VP defending Torture on a weekly basis, we have the crazy Hannity and Limbaugh defending torture, with little or no rebuttal from any one except Rachel Maddow and Keith, I mean what happened to Anderson cooper, he used to seem such a real reporter, NO VOICES OF DISSENT ARE GETTING AIR TIME,

NO WONDER N KOREA SAID FORGET PEACE TALKS AMERICA LOOKS LIKE IT IS SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL ANYWAY NO SENSE IN LISTENING TO THOSE IMMORAL BUMBS. THEY TORTURE, AND THEY HATE EACH OTHER AS WELL.

CAN'T THEY SEE THE WORLD WIDE DAMAGE THEY AR EDOING TO AMERICA'S REPUTATION AND MORAL STANDING CHINA RUSSIA AND N KIREA ARE LAUGHIN AT THE GOOD OL U S OF A

UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL---WHERE DOES IT LOOK LIKE WE ARE RIGHT NOW

[sirclown]

The word "of" is accidentally dropped.

The phrase that Tancredo incorrectly links to Sotomayor is, in fact, found only in the founding documents [of] a wholly different group to which Sotomayor has no known affiliation.

Fix please.

[PC Contrarian]

Correct.

[33Greeper]

I think I will give money to ACORN next!

[dphilip]

so will I.....it will be automatically withdrawn from my next pay check.....

Bill O 'Reilly has them on the run.....so does the FBI.. I just hope the Obama Justice Dept. doesn't step in and prevent any action like they did with the 3 Black Panther members assisting voters with night sticks....but I'm sure they will..it's payback on parade time now...

[HispanicDidi]

Beck and O'Reilly, while insisting they are not reporters but mere commentators, have not come up with anything tangible that will stick to ACORN. You know why? Because it doesn't exist! They have offered no proof, and every statement they make shows their lack of understanding of how government grants work, the actual work that ACORN does (because the big voter registration campaigns are something they do only during election season and have nothing to do with their other work which has helped thousands of poor people), and the reason why ACORN works for low-income, mostly minority populations.

They choose to ignore inconvenient facts and do not even mention the other community organizations that do very similar work and how their babbling will negatively affect them all. As someone who works for one of those similar organizations, I can tell you their "comments" are completely off and are doing nothing to help America, no matter how patriotic they claim to be, or those of us who want to eradicate poverty and the marginalization of communities of color.

[33Greeper]

Because of this article, I just gave money to: La Raza, NAACP, United Farm Workers and Southern Poverty Law Center. Take that, Tancredo!!

[mjtaylor22]

Given the very real horrors the KKK, actually initiated performed advocated and made infamous.

I believe any mention of them should really be met with harsh and cruel punishment.

The KKK cut babies out of mothers stomachs, hung innocent women men and children for the sport of it. Cut babies out of mothers stomachs,

Tortured generations of African Americans in an attempt to keep them "in their place"

The death toll from the KKK will never be counted accurately nor with the atrocities they performed be accurately told because they are an affront to every human

And the comparison falls on def ears in my case

Because living in the south even today, especially today I live with the very real fear, that some good ole boys will take out on me, their hatred for all people of color. And If I am not alert and aware, my kids will not see their father again.......

So really the whole "Latino KKk" thing is a joke a sick inhuman joke and should not be tolerated

Btu this is American Television, it has no brains and no morals at least not any more.

[exhale09]

Tancredo's words should be spat on.

[BKearney]

You've got to wonder if the real leaders (not limbaugh or gingrich)of the republicans are letting these insane people present their views now so anything with the smallest bit of reason sounds good in the next big election. It really makes sense, sound like a fool now so in three years a moderated message though still unrealistic sounds reasonable. Republicans are not all stupid at times they can be very shrewd.

[duhtruth]

I am becoming more and more sad each day as I hear the likes of Limbaugh, Tancredo, Cheney, Gingrich etc. etc. babble on. Are we the nation that stands for liberty and justice for all? Have these folks lost touch with the American dream? I feel that they would all be right at home in a banana republic. I just pray we don't become one!

[roshni]

They've all lost touch with basic decency, that's for sure.

[somsoc]

The GOP talking points.

[bluguy8]

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