Racists take over CSPAN call in show about the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act with rants about black people ruining America’s “white identity” and running down “white men” and the “caucasian race.” Watch.
If you’re getting ready for your Fourth of July weekend and want to read something both oddly fascinating and hilarious, read this piece Tom Kludt wrote this afternoon about a guy named Charles Johnson and his new book with St Martin’s Press. Johnson’s the guy who’s been riling up the aftermath of the Mississippi senate runoff with widely disputed claims that the Cochran campaign was paying black voters to vote for Cochran. But more interestingly he’s been on a kind of crazy twitter tear with a mix of manic self-promotion, raw trash talk, accusations of complicity in killing a man, a bizarre series of threats and macho-jousting with one of the DC GOP top press guys and a running series of battles with various people tied to the Cochran campaign. He’s the guy who published call-in information for his McDanielite supporters to crash a Cochran conference call yesterday, a call which was very much crashed and led to the unforgettable moment when the call was taken over by a wild McDanielite ranting about buying the votes of black people who would otherwise be out “picking Cotton” – making clear once and for all there’s definitely nothing racial about any of this.
The very smart Theda Skocpol takes the stage for the next segment on the Scholars Strategy Network‘s ongoing series this week on the future of the Republican Party. Her take? Don’t fool yourselves, tea partiers are still in control of the Republican agenda.
A Pennsylvania man was arrested just blocks from the TPM headquarters yesterday morning with a note saying he wanted to “die in combat and want to go to heaven and meet god and a stash of knives, rifles, assault rifles, a shotgun, handguns and even a bottle rocket. He was driving the wrong way on 7th Avenue and his note also discussed his interest in cats.
Chris McDaniel now offering $1,000 for evidence of voter fraud in the Mississippi senate run off.
The Nevada Sheriff who played the role of intermediary between Cliven Bundy and the BLM says the BLM’s tactics helped escalate the crisis. But this quote also gives some sense of the frustrations inherent in trying to deal with Mr. Bundy …
“My counsel (to Bundy) was: You have no legal standing; you choose not to go to federal court and argue your case,” Gillespie said. “But he would not recognize the federal government. So dealing with him wasn’t making a lot of success.”
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Colorado Gov nominee Bob Beauprez (R) releases his own 47% video. No really. Video after the jump.