Video of Tea Partiers Showing Their Pointy White Hats

March 11th, 2010

The Tea Party shows its true racist colors. Watch.

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Getting Fired For Sending Racist Emails, Now That’s Funny

March 9th, 2010

In the email sent by Walt Baker comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimp, it starts off stating that “Quoting Larry the Cable Guy…I don’t care who you are, this is funny…”.

Wonder if Mr. Baker is laughing now. It is widely reported that he has been let go as CEO of Tennessee Hospitality Association in a unanimous vote of the organization’s board.

Mr. Baker might think conjuring up old racial denigration standards is funny; but I gotta tell you, getting your comeuppance and losing your job for showing off your pointy white hat, now that’s a riot.


Walt Baker’s interview with News Channel 5 Nashville



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Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Compares Michelle Obama to Chimpanzee

March 8th, 2010

Tennessee Republicans up to the same old racism they’ve been displaying since Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008.

Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker sent out an email last week to 12 prominent Nashvillians in which Michelle Obama is compared to a Chimpanzee.

Tennessee Hospitality Association was instrumental in the development of the new Nashville Convention Center project.

On Saturday the publicly funded Convention and Visitors Bureau announced that it would be canceling its $50,000 marketing contract with Baker’s company.

CVB president Butch Spyridon is one of the people Baker sent the email to.


Here is the original email sent by Barker:

From: Walt Baker To: Albie DelFavero, Bruce Dobie, Butch Spyridon, Joe Hall, Peter Heidenreich, Terry Clements, Toby Compton, Chuck Creasy, Rob Moorefield, Ken Whitehouse, Paul Brown, Bob Davis Date: March 4, 2010 9:18:29 PM CST
Quoting Larry the Cable Guy…I don’t care who you are, this is funny…

I was at the store yesterday, and I ran into Tarzan! I asked him how it was going and if he was into anymore movies.



He told me that he could no longer make any more movies as he had severe arthritis in both shoulders and could no longer swing from vine to tree.


I asked how Jane was doing, he told me she was in bad shape, in a nursing home, has Alzheimer’s and no longer recognizes anyone, how sad. I asked about Boy, and he told me that Boy had gone to the big city, got hooked up with bad women, drugs, alcohol, and the only time he heard from him was if he was in trouble or needed something.


I asked about Cheeta, he beamed and said she was doing good, had married a Lawyer and now lived in the White House!!!

Chimpanzee
Michelle Obama

Butch Spyridon, in a CVB president press release said:

“On behalf of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau, I apologize for the offensive email sent yesterday by Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker. As a recipient of the email, I am embarrassed for my organization and myself. The content is deeply hurtful to all Nashvillians and beyond. The attitudes expressed in the email are both appalling and unacceptable, and are not shared or condoned in anyway by the NCVB or by me personally.

Nashville’s hospitality industry has worked tirelessly to create a welcoming environment for our visitors and this behavior discredits the work done by so many. After serious consideration, the NCVB has terminated its contract with Mr. Baker’s marketing agency, Mercatus Communications. I have communicated this action and my deep regrets about the email to the Mayor’s Office and other hospitality industry leaders.”

Bakers apology with the prentense that it was somehow not meant to be racist; nor evening insulting:

“Thursday night I spontaneously forwarded — to a small group of people — an email that had been sent to me as political humor. As I forwarded it, I did not think or consider its implications, other than that it was political humor. I am saddened that anyone misinterpreted the sentiments behind the email. I deeply apologize to anyone who is offended by this action. I hope that those who know me realize that the message was not intended to be malicious or hurtful in any way and can find it in their hearts to forgive me.”



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