Limbaugh: Tea Party is "the first time" that "everyday citizens" have "risen up" "since the Civil War"

So, you want to understand the Tea Party movement? I will take the time to try to help you understand. I will answer you first with a bit of history. Blacks and whites came together in the 1960s to support the Civil Rights Movement. The majority of the Civil Rights protestors were Republicans, including Martin Luther King. Do you think that the black Civil Rights protestors marched alone? Did they not have the support of thousands of whites marching with them?

The Tea Party Movement is not made up of a bunch of racists, as you infer. Among its ranks are a diverse group of citizens who cherish American values. At a recent Tea Party, one black man said that the Tea Party detractors are using the oldest tactic in the book – race baiting; they are pitting whites and blacks against each other. The black people who are attending the Tea Parties do not appreciate being called Uncle Toms. However, one black male Tea Partier suggested that the name callers should read the book Uncle Tom before they continue the name-calling. He said that Uncle Tom was a heroic figure who stood up against the Democrat Simon Legree, who wanted to enslave people.

It was mentioned that Keith Olberman said the Tea Partiers are afraid of Barack Obama because he is black. A black female Tea Partier was asked if SHE was afraid because the President is black. She asked if she should be afraid because the President is half-white. A black male, when asked the same question, said he was not afraid of the President. What he feared was losing his liberty, that his rights were being taken slowly away; because in his black male opinion, the current administration is steering America towards European-style socialism. One black speaker said he has been called an Oreo, a Token, a Sell-Out, and an Uncle Tom. He said to tell all those people who call him names, to tell them that all the name-calling does to an old paratrooper like him is to make him dig his heels in even further! He said it has nothing to do with your color, nothing to do with race, but everything to do with character; and we have no character in Washington D.C.

What built this great country called America was not government. To sum it up, we Tea Partiers, as a whole, are for fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. I, for one, happen to like the fact that we separated ourselves from Britain 233 years ago. And I do not want to see this country reattached to Europe now. America is on a precipice. We are either going to go the way of European style socialism or we are going to retain a uniquely American republic built on a Constitution worth upholding. In the manner of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, the Tea Party movement is made up of individuals who seek the right to speak out with courage and conviction, in a non-violent way. Non-violence, however, does not mean passive. It does not mean we will lay down like a whipped dog. And just like the Civil Rights movement of the 60s, the Tea Party movement is not going away. There is too much at stake.

The boy who cried wolf is an interesting metaphor coming from a group who has repeatedly predicted socialist doomsday scenarios since Obama was elected.

I sense a high degree of anger here.

Correct. No tolerance for racists. And yes, there's none of that in your group at all -- not the ones yelling the N-word at congressmen, not the ones hoisting signs depicting Obama as a witchdoctor, not the ones calling him an African citizen, not the ones waving Confederate flags ... nope, none of that. Crying wolf? There are plenty of examples, but if you have on blinders, you'll never see them.

BTW, Jim Crow law advocates said they weren't racists 40 years ago, too. Simply saying something does not make it true.