Tea Party leader and regular CNN, Fox News guest Mark Williams repeatedly calls opponents "faggot"
November 20, 2009 6:27 pm ET by Eric Hananoki
Tea Party Express co-chair Mark Williams, one of the most visible spokespersons for the tea party movement, has repeatedly called his political opponents "faggot" on his blog.
In a December 26, 2007, post, Williams referred to former President Jimmy Carter as a "creepy little faggot":
On January 27, 2008, Williams wrote that members of a Vermont town shouldn't be called "retard CHUDs" but "genetically defective, circus freak, tiny cranium, hairy-arm-pitted female & faggot alleged male biological train wrecks who totally make the argument for forced Eugenics":
As we've noted, the Tea Party Express spokesman has also called President Obama and Jimmy Carter "Nazis," and referred to Obama as the "racist in chief." Williams is a birther who has forwarded claims that Obama was born in Kenya.
Despite his history of incendiary rhetoric, Williams is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN. For instance, Williams has appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 at least six times in the past four months: November 2, October 26, September 15, September 14, September 10, and August 13. He also appeared on CNN Newsroom in August. On the September 14 edition of American Morning, reporter Elaine Quijano referred to Williams as one of the "tea party leaders" who "disavow[ed] any racist views" by protestors.
Fox News, which frequently cheerleads for the tea party movement, has hosted Williams on Fox & Friends (numerous times), America's News HQ, and Hannity. Williams also appeared on Fox Business Network's Cavuto.
The Tea Party Express recently bragged to supporters that it's received "great television news coverage" from CNN and Fox News, and specifically cited a Fox News interview with Williams.
Given Williams' history of smears and slurs, and his prominent position with the Tea Party Express, will the media continue to extend "great coverage" to Williams and his group?
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I'm straight as a yardstick, myself, but i have gay and transgendered friends ... and, even if i didn't, such hatred goes against the principles the USA is supposed to represent.
But of course the Obamanation's association with a racist reverend over a 20 year period is not significant. What hypocrisy.
2007!??! I will not condemn something so ridiculously old---unless it's those probably racist things that may or may not have been spoken by that colored racist Wright when Obama was maybe or maybe not there, probably.
Both are wrong. Liberals never think they are, though.
So blame their ignorance, not liberals, for becoming the "teabag movement", which, when you think of it, is a pretty dexterous thing to pull off unless there's a lot of jump around involved.
Randy
Do you not feel just the slight bit of embarrassment that you post a picture of a boy not even close to high school age to mock for using a sexual term? Do you not see the perversion and borderline pedophilia in that?
Seriously. It's sick. He looks like he's maybe 11 years old.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
The only one who should be ashamed is the responsible adult who gave him the sign to carry in public where the media was sure to be present and ready to immortalize him. If it means that much to you, maybe you should see if anyone at Free Republic had anything to do this sign getting into the hands of a minor.
No, I don't see any perversion or pedophilia in posting a picture of someone who is fully clothed. Are you ****ing kidding me with this???
I have merely cited evidence that there were protesters who were foolish enough to use the term early on. That doesn't make me the one who is sick and perverted.
As I told you, if this term is so abhorrently offensive to you, especially when displayed by what appears to be a minor, then your beef lies with the person who created this sign and the person responsible for putting it into his hands.
I seriously doubt anyone who went to a tea party protest was thinking of the Urban Dictionary definition when they called themselves that, the few who did anyway. And once they heard liberals snickering about it, by and large the name promptly stopped.
The fact liberals use it now with such glee is a testament to their nastiness and proof they have no problem with sexual slurs, so acting innocent of that charge because it's a name some of them used is no excuse for what your true intent is, which is to demean and snicker. No different than this guy using the faggot term. Both are wrong.
Your self-absolution would be no different than this fellow saying "Hey, faggot is a name that gays use when addressing each other." Or someone excusing his calling an African American the N-word because other African Americans use that name when addressing other African Americans. This fellow is wrong to use the word, but so are you guys and this web site for using the "teabagger' slur. Hypocrites, in fact.
See, unlike your side, we don't think homosexual behavior is bad, so it's not a smear to associate someone with that behavior, first off.
Secondly, it's the darn teabaggers who called themselves that first. It's not our fault that they were unaware of the slang term. But it's only offensive if you think that homosexual behavior is offensive. We don't.
If I called you a c*cksucker, it'd be no different than you calling these people teabaggers, with the connotation you now admit you're using. The fact that the Urban Dictionary definition is a practice used mainly by homosexuals and you use it to slur Tea Partiers, means you don't mind using homosexuals as clubs to bash people you don't agree with.
The fact that the Urban Dictionary definition is a practice used mainly by homosexuals and you use it to slur Tea Partiers, means you don't mind using homosexuals as clubs to bash people you don't agree with.
It doesn't mean that at all. It means idiot teabaggers who adopted a name without knowing what it meant don't get a free pass on that name. How can you absolve the teabaggers of responsibility here? You want to call yourself something, you better know the connotations associated with that word.
This is not using homosexuals as clubs. First of all, while I think I'm in reasonably good physical shape, I highly doubt that I could pick up the averaged-sized homosexual man or woman and use him/her as a club. Second, while I can only speak for myself here, I use the term to mock the ignorance of the movement, and for me it has no homosexual connotations at all. Sexual connotations maybe, but not homosexual.
Homosexuals don't have a monopoly on "teabagging", and it's not even a strictly sexual act.
It is also true that the term was first adopted by protesters themselves. The fact that their willingness to call themselves that elicited giggles from media personalities is really not anyone's fault. There are also examples of right-wing personalities, like Griff Jenkins, using the term in a way that utilizes the double entendre (with his "let's teabag the white house" comment).
Furthermore, by this point, the term "teabagger" has, kind of amazingly, become a pretty commonplace entry in the political lexicon. Enough so to attract the attention of the Oxford American Dictionary as a potential new 'word of the year' entry.
I will say, however, that I do believe the initial onslaught of frat boy humor that erupted after the "tea party" thing first surfaced was immature and pretty embarassing. A couple of off-color jokes I could have handled, but certain media personalities went a little over board and I was disheartened to see journalists I really do respect, like Andersen Cooper (who did, actually, later apologize) engage in that behavior.
But yeah, "teabagging" or "teabagger" is a phrase steeped in comedy. "F*ggot" is a phrase steeped in hatred and a history of discrimination. They are not the same, and there is no comparison.
Also, interesting point of information--the photo posted above by pete was actually originally posted online by David Weigel, a conservative/libertarian journalist (I think he contributes to the NY times) and that photo is actually credited with being the origin of the "teabag" label. Also, Weigel is also credited with coining the phrase "birther" as a label for those who believe Obama was not actually born in America. This David Weigel character has contributed a lot to the lexicon of American politics in the past year!
That is sick and perverted on Weigel's part. Exploiting sixth graders to justify middle school behavior on the part of liberals.
You're attempting to project onto others the irresponsible actions of the adult(s) who 'exploited' a 'sixth grader' into publicly leveling sexual insults at members of congress.
The 'sixth grader' is fully clothed, which negates your silly accusations of perversion, sickness, and pedophilia.
Go buy a vocabulary, moron.
Immaturity is conservatism's biggest cross to bear. But it's one they bear willingly.
Randy