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MSNBC's Shuster Assails GOP Leadership's Embrace Of Right-Wing Scare Tactics, Ex-GOP Congressman Storms Off Set After Insult

Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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On MSNBC Friday night, David Shuster (filling in for Ed Shultz) addressed hateful signs at Thursday's Capitol Hill "House call" against health care re...

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Pot Wars: A Bipartisan Failure

Jessica Corry | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Tom Tancredo, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Regulation, War on Drugs, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Policy, Hillary Clinton, Colorado, Prohibition, Denver News
Jessica Corry

Democrats calculate they will have nothing to gain by legalizing. Republicans fear angering a socially conservative base of voters all too eager to forget its beer-bonging college days.

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Bill Owens, Former Governor, Has Been Sponsoring Education For An Undocumented Immigrant

The Denver Post | Karen E. Crummy | Posted 09.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado, Tom Tancredo, College Education, Colorado Governor, Bill Owens, Illegal Immigration, Denver News

A new book written by Helen Thorpe adds a footnote to the story of an Aurora honor student, brought to the U.S. illegally by his parents, who found hi...

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Tancredo Slams Jane Norton: Tell Us What You Think, Should She Be Running For Senate?

Huffington Post | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Senate, Tom Tancredo, Andrew Romanoff, Michael Bennet, Jane Norton Senate Run, Jane Norton, Denver News

Update: In response to Norton's announcement, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Eric Schultz immediately went on the attack, releasin...

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Jane Norton Senate Run: Tancredo Says She's "Not Ready"

The Denver Post | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Senate Run, Tom Tancredo and Jane Norton, Jane Norton for Senate, Colorado Senate, Tom Tancredo, Jane Norton, Denver News

Former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton will announce her candidacy for the U.S. Senate today, much to the chagrin of retired U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo. Tancredo ...

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Tancredo Defends Joe Wilson: "President Is Either A Liar Or Stupid, And I Don't Think He's Stupid" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Tom Tancredo, Tom Tancredo Ed Show, Barack Obama, Ed Show, Joe Wilson, Ed Show Video, Tom Tancredo Obama Wilson Lie, Politics News

Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo didn't back down from his statement that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) should not have apologized to President O...

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There They Go Again: Tom Tancredo, Mark Krikorian and the Politics of Hate and Fear

Janet Murguía | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Immigration Reform, Latina, Nclr, Mark Krikorian, Immigration, Supreme Court Justice Nominee, Center for Immigration Studies, Civil Rights, Hispanic, Republican Congressman, Tom Tancredo, Politics News
Janet Murguía

The politics of hate and fear are not new to our country. We've seen them before. We know what they look like. Right now, they look a lot like Tom Tancredo and Mark Krikorian.

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Colbert Mocks Conservative Pundits For Claims Of Reverse Racism; Calls Buchanan A 'Reverse Civil Rights Leader' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Video, Stephen Colbert, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo, Colbert Buchanan, Colbert Reverse Racism, Colbert Reverse Racist, Comedy News

Stephen Colbert eviscerated Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh last night for claiming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racist and t...

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Dickipedia: Tom Tancredo

Dickipedia | Kevin Allocca | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Dickipedia, Dickipedia, Dickipedia Tom Tancredo, Tancredo, Comedy News

Thomas Gerard Tancredo (born December 20, 1945) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, former presidential candi...

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Mainstreaming Extremism: What's the American Cause National Conference Cooking Up?

Adam Luna | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Cause, Pat Buchanan, Immigration Reform, Peter Brimelow, Tom Tancredo, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News
Adam Luna

There's an old saying: show me who you're friends are and I'll tell you who you are.

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Tom Tancredo Linked To Minutemen Accused Of Double Murder

The Colorado Independent | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tancredo Minutemen, Tom Tancredo, Tom Tancredo Murder, Minutemen Murder, Minuteman American Defense, Minutemen, Tom Tancredo Minutemen, Shawda Forde, Politics News

Shawna Forde and members of Minuteman American Defense -- an anti-illegal immigration vigilante group charged in the double homicide of an Arizona man...

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Seeds of Hatred---Reaping the Harvest

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, Mark Levin, Tiller, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, President Obama, G. Gordon Liddy, Obama, Pro-Life, Tom Tancredo, Barack Obama, Dr. George Tiller, Talk Radio, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Fox News, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Media News, Pro-Choice, Republican Party, Republicans, Israel, Media News
Larry Gellman

We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

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Marcus Epstein Gives Everyone a Bad Name

Disgrasian | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Hate Crimes, PAC Leaders, Asian Americans, Marcus Epstein, Marcus Epstein Calls Woman "Nigger", Team America, Tom Tancredo, Tancredo Speechwriter, Conservatives, Bay Buchanan, Asians, Karate Chop, Racial Slurs, Marcus Epstein Assault, Paleoconservatives, Politics News
Disgrasian

Marcus Epstein should know by now: Shame never dies. After all: shame, disappointment in self, feelings of failure and a deep sense of self-loathing ...

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Think Again: The Surprising Success of the Right-Wing Rant

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Twitter, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sonia Sotomayor, Kkk, Racism, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Tucker Carlson, Barack Obama, David Duke, Tom Tancredo, Media News
Eric Alterman

For once, Foxnation.com has got it right.

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Senator Sessions, Judge Sotomayor, And Racism

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Kkk, Ronald Reagan, David Gregory, Jeff Sessions, Boy, Scotus, Better, Republican, Reagan, Marion Three, Ku Klux Klan, Latino, Sexism, Gross Insensitivity, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Naacp, Communist, Reverse Racism, Judiciary Committee, Tancredo, Charles Pickering, Racist, Voting Rights, Alabama, Pickering, Tom Tancredo, Un-American, Meet the Press, Chris Weigant, Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans, Nominee, Aclu, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

In all the hoopla over Judge Sonia Sotomayor being nominated to the Supreme Court, there is one interesting side story that the media is largely ignor...

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Jason Linkins

Playboy Scorned For Hateful Attack On Conservative Pundits (And The Rest Of Today's Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Misogyny, Conservative Pundits, Politico, General Motors Bondholders, Media Criticism, Liz Glover, Jezebel, General Motors, Tom Tancredo, Video, General Motors Bankruptcy, Sexism, Megan Carpentier, Playboy Magazine, Wall Street Bonuses, Citigroup, Media News

Circumstances conspired against me doing what Chip Hanlon advises on these pages today: heap a ton of scorn on Playboy Magazine and writer Guy Cimbalo...

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The Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor -- Can it Be a Teachable Moment?

Les Francis | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Racism, Robert Bork, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Les Francis

We can hope that the confirmation process will be intense, spirited, and enlightening, and that Sotomayor -- and we -- will be spared the cheap, the tawdry, and the demagogic. We can hope, but we also should strive to make it so.

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The Fight Over Sonia Sotomayor: Why Were So Few Hispanics on TV Debating the First Hispanic Supreme Court Nominee?

Eric Deggans | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Abc, Cnn, Tom Tancredo, This Week, Supreme Court, Hispanics, Media, Prejudice, Rush Limbaugh, Race, Diversity, Sonia Sotomayor, Political Tv, Politics News
Eric Deggans

What irks me most about the media circus around Sotomayor's nomination is that white politicians and pundits pretend their race and culture have no impact on their sensibilities.

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Marcus Epstein's Racist Assault Bruises Buchanan And Tancredo

Washington Independent | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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On July 7, 2007, Marcus Epstein had too much to drink and stumbled onto Georgetown's scenic, shop-lined M Street, walking in no particular direction. ...

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Will the Fight Over Gay Marriage Be the End of Right vs. Left Thinking?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, James Inhofe, Jeff Sessions, Tom Tancredo, Dick Cheney, John Cornyn, Ban on Gay Marriages, Sonia Sotomayor, Dick Cheney Gay Marriage, Ted Olsen, Sotomayor Nomination, Newt Gingrich, Gay Marriage, Left vs. Right, David Boies, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Not that long ago, gay marriage was a dependable wedge issue Republicans could use to keep its base in line. But now that wedge is clearly splintering.

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Tancredo PAC Backs Staffer Charged In Racist Assault

Colorado Independent | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Immigration, Sonia Sotomayor, Marcus Epstein, Tancredo Sotomayor, Tancredo PAC, Team America, Tom Tancredo, Politics News

I just talked to Bay Buchanan, the co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the American Cause, who is sticking by executive director (of both...

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Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latina, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzalez, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, President Obama and Judge Sotomayor, Kkk, La Raza, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mike Allen, " Immigration, The Minutemen, Judge Sotomayor, Lou Dobbs, G. Gordon Liddy, Newt Gingrich, Glen Beck, Jonathan Martin, Clarence Thomas, Tom Tancredo, Dolores Huerta, Cnn, "Racism, Latino, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Mark Krikorian, Latino Vote, David Duke, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Colbert, Stephen Colbert, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

One thing is clear: President Obama's choice of a Latina woman has sparked the ugliest reaction from the Republican Right we've seen years.

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Director Of Tancredo's Anti-Immigrant Group Assaulted African-American Woman

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Racism, La Raza, Supreme Court, Anti-Immigrant-Groups, Tom Tancredo, Sonia Sotomayor, Pac, Politics News

Yesterday, former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo attacked Judge Sonia Sotomayor for being a member of the National Council of La Raza, absurdly likening t...

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Why Sotomayor's Confirmation Debate Is the D.C. Equivalent of Rock of Love

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, Sotomayor Confirmation, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Sotomayor, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Tancredo, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Listening to conservatives play the race card in attacking the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, I've been marveling at just how self-destructive they've become. Republicans have to know how bad this is for their party

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Tancredo Claims Sotomayor In "Latino KKK" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Tom Tancredo, La Raza, Ed Schultz MSNBC, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman and radical anti-immigration activist, stepped up his attacks on judge Sonia Sotomayor Thursday. Appeari...

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