March 06, 2007 07:37 PM UTC

Confederate Flags for Tancredo

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• by: Colorado Pols

Old Tom Tancredo is in the news. Again.

As The Denver Post reports:

Rep. Tom Tancredo of Littleton shares the limelight in a video clip racking up page views on youtube.com. In just one day, nearly 50,000 people had watched the seven-minute piece called “CPAC 2007: The Unauthorized Documentary.”

The video shows Max Blumenthal of The Nation weaving through crowds and asking provocative questions of several people at last week’s Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington, D.C.

After positing that the “conservative movement is in crisis,” Blumenthal says of the presidential candidates, “only Tom Tancredo can boast of a solid conservative voting record. Whether Tancredo’s brand of conservativism helps his party is another issue.”

The clip shows a part of Republican Tancredo’s speech where he says the U.S. is becoming a “linguistic and cultural tower of Babel,” and then refers to Miami as a Third World Country.
Blumenthal interviews Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and an oft-Tancredo critic, who says “I would argue that if the face of the Republican party is Tancredo, it loses over the next 25 years.”

Blumenthal questions Tancredo supporters, asking at one point about preserving “white culture.” Several men yell and tell him to leave, one saying “you want to get some racist chant for Tancredo… . It’s not going to happen … . It’s not about race.”

Blumenthal asks one Tancredo supporters why he’s covering his “confederate flag lapel.” The man says “because you have a video camera in my face.”

Click below for the video link…