Top This Kutcher And Henne Family! (Updated)

In what will clearly go down as one of the funniest stories of 2009, Tea Party activists in St. Paul, Minnesota added to the growing ways of how they truly embarrass the nation (and become a royal laughingstock simultaneously).

Ashton Kutcher and the Heene family probably couldn't even pull this one off.

It was an anti-immigration rally at one of the Minnesota's twin cities sparked by reports on Friday of Janet Napolitano describing how the Obama Administration would be pushing for immigration reform to make things easier for undocumented immigrants becoming legal U.S. citizens.

About 40 tea baggers showed up to express their disapproval over that move in a rally outside the State Capital on Saturday. Now 30 pro-reform immigrant rights activists showed up to combat their belligerent counterparts.
The immigrant rights presence was initiated by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (MIRAc). Immigrant rights activists chanted during the anti-immigrant speakers, and held banners that said "Stop Raids and Deportations" and "Immigration is Not a Crime". The immigrant rights protesters clearly frazzled the anti-immigrant organizers throughout their event.
But the perfect move to basically blunt anti-immigrant irrational teabaggers is through humor and clever mockery, and that was displayed by one "Robert Erickson".

Get this, because it speaks to how laughable these people really are:
One of those protesters, going by the alias "Robert Erickson," got a speaking spot at the rally and used it to argue for the eviction of all descendants of European immigrants -- in other words, that contingent of white Americans who these days see themselves as "real" Americans.

"In Minneapolis where I'm from, we have a huge immigrant population that has been causing a number of problems," Erickson began. "With the economy in recession and so many people laid off and unable to find work, immigrants should not be competing for the few jobs that are open. It's just not fair to the folks who have a claim to this country and have a right to be here."

That was met with with applause, but soon it became clear that "Erickson" had a different notion from the Tea-partiers as to who actually has "a claim to this country."

"Let's send these European immigrants back where they came from," he said to wild cheers. "We need to send every one of them back home. ... They stole this land through genocide and ethnic cleansing."

Even after that comment, some of the anti-immigration protesters didn't seem to notice that "Erickson" was standing up for the right of Native Americans to reclaim their land from the Caucasian population -- even though, as FightBackNews noted, the pro-immigration reform crowd had joined in the cheering.


"Erickson" walked off the stage leading the crowd in a loud chant of "Columbus go home! Columbus go home!"
Hahaha, the video is even funnier:

Score another one for the teabaggers providing the comic relief on themselves.

Basically wanting to expel themselves out of America, those teabag anti-immigration activists in St. Paul on Saturday really did surprise me. It's sad, because I thought they loved America all the way to the day they die.

Updated: From a "Robert Erickson" in the comments" section, here is the full video of this masterpiece.

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