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Gay Tea Party Activist Bruce Majors: ‘It’s a Full-Time Job Being a Celebrity Racist’

Posted on | August 29, 2010 | 30 Comments

Last week, a D.C. guide for out-of-towners attending the Restoring Honor rally was seized upon by the Left as evidence of Tea Party bigotry because it advised visitors to stick to the touristy parts of town, et cetera. Rachel Maddow got all snarky about it:

Here’s your first ironic denouement: The guy who wrote the Tea Party Guide to D.C. is a gay guy who has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats:

Eugene Robinson, a columnist for The Washington Post, accused Majors of “scaring white people.” DC Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton called the post “worrisome” and said she feared it would inflame racial tensions.
Majors, who says he aspires to be “the gay, slightly more libertarian Ann Coulter,” clearly relishes the attention. Upbeat and talkative, he sports a mischievous grin that refuses to fade.
“It’s a full-time job being a celebrity racist,” he says as he walks through the crowd at the National Mall. “I need a personal assistant.”

OK, so that’s your first ironic denouement. And the second?

Yeah, Bruce Majors is a friend of mine. I’m sure he’ll put that character reference on his résumé.

UPDATE: Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters has a transcript of Maddow’s segment, as well as for another segment by Chris Matthews on the same topic. And apparently none of MSNBC’s journalistic geniuses ever thought to do a simple online search of the FEC records for Bruce Majors.

“Too good to check,” et cetera.

Category: Gays, Glenn Beck, MSNBC, Tea Party, The Flemish Menace

Comments

30 Responses to “Gay Tea Party Activist Bruce Majors: ‘It’s a Full-Time Job Being a Celebrity Racist’”

  1. Andrea Harris
    August 29th, 2010 @ 4:45 pm

    I grew up in Miami. My high school graduation was postponed due to the riots of 1980. I’ve been to DC. When I tell you that some of the neighborhoods in the latter city scare me, that means they are bad neighborhoods, not that I’m a racist.

  2. Andrea Harris
    August 29th, 2010 @ 12:45 pm

    I grew up in Miami. My high school graduation was postponed due to the riots of 1980. I’ve been to DC. When I tell you that some of the neighborhoods in the latter city scare me, that means they are bad neighborhoods, not that I’m a racist.

  3. Andrea Harris
    August 29th, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

    And no I didn’t grow up in a nice, wealthy suburb of Miami either. I lived in an old, working class neighborhood full of Cuban and other Hispanic immigrants, just a few miles straight down the road from Liberty City, where the riots were.

  4. Andrea Harris
    August 29th, 2010 @ 12:46 pm

    And no I didn’t grow up in a nice, wealthy suburb of Miami either. I lived in an old, working class neighborhood full of Cuban and other Hispanic immigrants, just a few miles straight down the road from Liberty City, where the riots were.

  5. Kojocaro
    August 29th, 2010 @ 5:16 pm

    according to gawker it is racism against blacks whether they be muslim or not to be against this mosque

  6. Kojocaro
    August 29th, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

    according to gawker it is racism against blacks whether they be muslim or not to be against this mosque

  7. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 5:54 pm

    RSM if it will get me a fun job you bet I will put it on my resume.

    By the way I don’t know if I ever told you, before I had to make money to pay grad school loans I actually wrote for a “living,” free lance, before there was an internet and blogging.

    Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

  8. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 1:54 pm

    RSM if it will get me a fun job you bet I will put it on my resume.

    By the way I don’t know if I ever told you, before I had to make money to pay grad school loans I actually wrote for a “living,” free lance, before there was an internet and blogging.

    Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

  9. Robert Stacy McCain
    August 29th, 2010 @ 6:10 pm

    Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

    1. If it was my magazine, I’d give myself a raise.

    2. “Once a ‘Tator, always a ‘Tator,” as we say.

    3. David Brock excepted, of course.

  10. Robert Stacy McCain
    August 29th, 2010 @ 2:10 pm

    Your magazine, the American Spectator, has my first published piece on its web archives now, from 1982, written when I was in college.

    1. If it was my magazine, I’d give myself a raise.

    2. “Once a ‘Tator, always a ‘Tator,” as we say.

    3. David Brock excepted, of course.

  11. L. J.
    August 29th, 2010 @ 7:33 pm

    I live in Bethesda MD and have worked over two years in DC. Just like every large city, there are areas that are unsafe; however, if one stays aware of surroundings, there is no reason to avoid tha majority of DC. If you go looking for trouble you will find it no matter where you go. People in DC are very helpful when asked…they for the most part are also very intelligent. Southern hospitality is limited to Virginia but that’s just way it is for some reason. Race has absolutely nothing to do with anything in DC. Most all people in DC interact well with each other with no regard to race. It’s a melting pot and it’s really quite neat. I was born and raised in Florida and lived all over the world (retired military) and trust me, DC is the place to be (other than Germany) if you like culture and have a need to always have something to do or see.

  12. L. J.
    August 29th, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    I live in Bethesda MD and have worked over two years in DC. Just like every large city, there are areas that are unsafe; however, if one stays aware of surroundings, there is no reason to avoid tha majority of DC. If you go looking for trouble you will find it no matter where you go. People in DC are very helpful when asked…they for the most part are also very intelligent. Southern hospitality is limited to Virginia but that’s just way it is for some reason. Race has absolutely nothing to do with anything in DC. Most all people in DC interact well with each other with no regard to race. It’s a melting pot and it’s really quite neat. I was born and raised in Florida and lived all over the world (retired military) and trust me, DC is the place to be (other than Germany) if you like culture and have a need to always have something to do or see.

  13. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 7:59 pm

    Maddow owes me a public retraction and an apology.

    I am not from Maine!

    Tick, tock, bitch. Are you man enough?

  14. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

    Maddow owes me a public retraction and an apology.

    I am not from Maine!

    Tick, tock, bitch. Are you man enough?

  15. Matthew
    August 29th, 2010 @ 9:36 pm

    He was speaking on MSNBC? Big surprise.

  16. Matthew
    August 29th, 2010 @ 5:36 pm

    He was speaking on MSNBC? Big surprise.

  17. Andrew Ian Dodge
    August 29th, 2010 @ 9:55 pm

    She owes the entire Maine tea party movement and apology. She owes me one too as does Matthews for his hack job.

  18. Andrew Ian Dodge
    August 29th, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

    She owes the entire Maine tea party movement and apology. She owes me one too as does Matthews for his hack job.

  19. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 11:23 pm

    Just found a new word in the OXFORD English dictionary: to maddow (v.), to pull a maddow: to smear, libel and vilify an innocent person or persons based on ethnic, racial, geographic or political identity, because of a failure of reading comprehension, incompetent research, and/or intellectual dishonesty

  20. Bruce Majors
    August 29th, 2010 @ 7:23 pm

    Just found a new word in the OXFORD English dictionary: to maddow (v.), to pull a maddow: to smear, libel and vilify an innocent person or persons based on ethnic, racial, geographic or political identity, because of a failure of reading comprehension, incompetent research, and/or intellectual dishonesty

  21. Joe
    August 29th, 2010 @ 8:02 pm

    “It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That’s been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

    Obama on ignoring Beck rally.

  22. Joe
    August 30th, 2010 @ 12:02 am

    “It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That’s been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

    Obama on ignoring Beck rally.

  23. Joe
    August 30th, 2010 @ 1:10 am

    Dumb and Dumber (I did not even know I was subscribed to Democrat.com, but this is enlightening):

    Dear ,
    Today, Glenn Beck tried to hijack Martin Luther King’s legacy for his own rightwing agenda – and the corporate media gave saturation coverage to help him.
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who insisted President Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people … This man is a racist.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who said social justice “leads to death camps” and “a Jew, of all people, should know that.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who called progressives a “virus waiting for their chance to suck all of the blood out of the Democratic neck.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who called Hillary Clinton “the stereotypical bitch.”
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
    http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers
    Glenn Beck doesn’t just poison the airwaves with hatred. His hatred actually incites violence and murder.
    On 7/18/10, Beck inspired a gunman to attack the little-known Tides Foundation, after demonizing them for 18 months. The gunman got into a massive shootout with police and wounded two of them.
    On 4/4/09, Richard Poplawski murdered 3 Pittsburgh policemen after posting Beck videos on a neo-Nazi website.
    On 4/9/09, Beck poured “gasoline” on an “average American” and asked, “President Obama, why don’t you just set us on fire?”
    On 8/16/09, Glenn Beck dramatized giving Speaker Pelosi a glass of wine with poison.
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
    http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers
    Our boycott of Fox News advertisers is having a huge impact – over 200 advertisers have pulled their ads from Beck’s show. No sane company wants to destroy its brand through association with Glenn Beck’s hate.
    The advertiser boycott is cutting deeply into Fox revenues and alienating investors who want profits, not hate.
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
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    Thanks for all you do!
    Bob Fertik
    ________________________________________
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  24. Joe
    August 29th, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

    Dumb and Dumber (I did not even know I was subscribed to Democrat.com, but this is enlightening):

    Dear ,
    Today, Glenn Beck tried to hijack Martin Luther King’s legacy for his own rightwing agenda – and the corporate media gave saturation coverage to help him.
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who insisted President Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people … This man is a racist.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who said social justice “leads to death camps” and “a Jew, of all people, should know that.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who called progressives a “virus waiting for their chance to suck all of the blood out of the Democratic neck.”
    Yes, the same Glenn Beck who called Hillary Clinton “the stereotypical bitch.”
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
    http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers
    Glenn Beck doesn’t just poison the airwaves with hatred. His hatred actually incites violence and murder.
    On 7/18/10, Beck inspired a gunman to attack the little-known Tides Foundation, after demonizing them for 18 months. The gunman got into a massive shootout with police and wounded two of them.
    On 4/4/09, Richard Poplawski murdered 3 Pittsburgh policemen after posting Beck videos on a neo-Nazi website.
    On 4/9/09, Beck poured “gasoline” on an “average American” and asked, “President Obama, why don’t you just set us on fire?”
    On 8/16/09, Glenn Beck dramatized giving Speaker Pelosi a glass of wine with poison.
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
    http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers
    Our boycott of Fox News advertisers is having a huge impact – over 200 advertisers have pulled their ads from Beck’s show. No sane company wants to destroy its brand through association with Glenn Beck’s hate.
    The advertiser boycott is cutting deeply into Fox revenues and alienating investors who want profits, not hate.
    Join over 60,000 progressive activists who are boycotting Fox News advertisers:
    http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers
    Thanks for all you do!
    Bob Fertik
    ________________________________________
    You are subscriber #2512906 to Democrats.com Activist Alerts.
    If you do not want to receive Activist Alerts, click here
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  25. Chris Ivey
    August 30th, 2010 @ 1:29 am

    I’m a Canadian who worked off and on for several years for a software company in Bethesda. I explored much of DC, (excepting some of the burbs) on foot in my spare time. My American friend who hosted me marveled that I could “go walkabout” and come back alive.

    Frankly, while it’s not as bad as Baltimore, or parts of Chicago and Philadelphia, a lot of DC is pretty dangerous, especially for tourists on foot. Anyone who claims otherwise speaks from ignorance.

    I would challenge either of these two twits to go take a little walk around the neighbourhood of the Navy yard after dark, or perhaps even to venture a couple of blocks out of the touristy parts of Adams Morgan.

  26. Chris Ivey
    August 29th, 2010 @ 9:29 pm

    I’m a Canadian who worked off and on for several years for a software company in Bethesda. I explored much of DC, (excepting some of the burbs) on foot in my spare time. My American friend who hosted me marveled that I could “go walkabout” and come back alive.

    Frankly, while it’s not as bad as Baltimore, or parts of Chicago and Philadelphia, a lot of DC is pretty dangerous, especially for tourists on foot. Anyone who claims otherwise speaks from ignorance.

    I would challenge either of these two twits to go take a little walk around the neighbourhood of the Navy yard after dark, or perhaps even to venture a couple of blocks out of the touristy parts of Adams Morgan.

  27. Nightdragon
    August 30th, 2010 @ 9:50 am

    Eugene Robinson on Glenn Beck: “I think his main purpose here is self-aggrandizement on an almost Napoleonic scale.”

    Huh?! And I’m sure any of the political hacks Robinson has fawned up to during his tenure with The Washington Post were absolutely nothing of the sort! What a hypocrite. I know, surprising for a liberal “boy who cried ‘racist’,” but there we are.

  28. Nightdragon
    August 30th, 2010 @ 5:50 am

    Eugene Robinson on Glenn Beck: “I think his main purpose here is self-aggrandizement on an almost Napoleonic scale.”

    Huh?! And I’m sure any of the political hacks Robinson has fawned up to during his tenure with The Washington Post were absolutely nothing of the sort! What a hypocrite. I know, surprising for a liberal “boy who cried ‘racist’,” but there we are.

  29. old white guy
    August 30th, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

    there is so much dishonesty from those on the left it is impossible to keep up. first amendment aside we have to find some way of shutting these morons up. i’m not sure that the truth will do it.

  30. old white guy
    August 30th, 2010 @ 9:43 am

    there is so much dishonesty from those on the left it is impossible to keep up. first amendment aside we have to find some way of shutting these morons up. i’m not sure that the truth will do it.