Dale Robertson's TeaParty.org Sends Out Email with Offensive Picture Portraying President Obama as a "Pimp"

Dale Robertson's TeaParty.org sends out email with offensive portrayal of President Obama as an African American "pimp."

President Obama portrayed as a "pimp" in TeaParty.org email (TPM)

The Tea Partiers are at it again. TeaParty.org, founded by Dale Robertson, who is no stranger to controversy, having held a sign that referred to taxpayers as "niggars" has pulled out another stereotypical "gem" from his bag of tricks. According to Talking Points Memo, yesterday the group sent an email fund-raising solicitation, headlined "Obama Pimping Obama-Care, One Last Time!" As you can see from the picture above, President Obama is shown as a stereotypical black pimp, sporting a pencil-thin mustache and a zebra-striped, fur-brimmed fedora and they didn't forget to add the feather.

The email goes on to explain that Democrats still plan to pass health-care reform despite Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts. It asks readers to send faxes to Congress, and to donate to TeaParty.org. And it contains an exhortatory quote from Robertson, identified as the group's so-called President/Founder: "I am greatly encouraged with the progress of the Tea Party, but our work has just begun!" Source: Talking Points Memo

Sorry, but if this is the voice of the Republican Party, then they are in worst shape that I had imagined. I am aware of the horrible portrayals and caricatures of President George W. Bush, but they were also in poor taste and offensive. It seems to me that the portrayals of President Obama play upon racist stereotypes of African Americans and that is racist and a disgrace. So, Obama is a pimp now? Wow. That's clearly an act of desparation.