Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)

Filed in National by on January 4, 2010

Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not?  One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling.

Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn’t have some supicions all along).  A leader of the Tea Party Movement and owner of TeaParty.org, Dale Robertson, was featured in a photo taken in February holding a sign saying “Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar”

There is so much here.  Poor spelling is apparently rampant.  I mean, let’s face it… The word isn’t that hard to spell.  If you can spell “bigger” or if you have kids, you will be familiar with “Tigger” it shouldn’t be a problem.  Of course it is all thrown into flux when you think “figure” rhymes with it…

If you actually go to the source of the photo, you can also see that the sign used to say something else (perhaps “slave”) but someone decided that that word wasn’t offensive enough.  Of course, it could also be that they thought the word underneath was spelled wrong…

Either way, there is finally a datapoint that irrefutably points to a leader of the movement with some racist tendencies.

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:
    January 4, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    Seriously, how crazy will the GOP get before it all falls apart? Look at this guy from Minnesota, Allen Quist, who was once the Republican nominee for governor (now running for MN-01):

    “It’s because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is — every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes — but that’s not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren’t liberals, they’re radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz — they’re not liberals, they’re radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out.”

  2. pandora says:
    January 4, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    What they should be fighting for is an education. I’m not the spelling police, but if you’re making a sign…

    Actually, these signs give great insight into the tea party-ers. They are obviously not well educated – which only gave more humor to the threat of Going Galt. I also recall that the word socialist gave them a lot of trouble, as well.

  3. cassandra_m says:
    January 4, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    I have been laughing and laughing and laughing over this.

    Mainly because the last bit of cultural cluelessness by these people got them their nick name of teabaggers.

    So are we supposed to call them n*gg*ers now?

    Because that would be damned funny.

  4. A. price says:
    January 5, 2010 at 1:02 am

    what the hell is it with minnesota? 2 progressive senators, the first Muslim member of congress, and people like M-bach and THIS! talk about a bi polar state

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