ARE YOU READY FOR SOME....RACISM???

The “Hitler” signs that popped up at some early tea party rallies had an echo on Monday, when country singer Hank Williams Jr. likened President Obama to the late Nazi dictator.

Mr. Williams, a tea party supporter, appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning. When asked about his pick for president next year, he pointed to a golf game between Mr. Obama and House Speaker John Boehner this summer, saying it was "one of the biggest political mistakes ever."

"It'd be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," he said, adding that he considered Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "the enemy."

As word of the remarks spread, ESPN yanked its intro to “Monday Night Football,” which featured a takeoff of Williams’s hit song “All My Rowdy Friends.” The song has been an “MNF” staple for 20 years and has earned Williams four Emmys. ESPN has not said whether it will use that music again.
As many tea party protesters have learned, drawing analogies between the man who ordered millions of Jews killed and modern-day US politicians may be potent political theater, but it’s not a good way to broaden your base.

From its beginning in 2009, some critics have called the tea party "racist" and "extremist" because of various signs at tea party rallies and allegations that a racial epithet was directed at black members of Congress from a tea party crowd during passage of the health-care reform law.

The tea party eventually toned down its sign rhetoric. It activists maintain that the core of the movement is about peacefully bringing constitutional principles and fiscal responsibility back to Washington.