Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement

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Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis teed off on the Tea Party movement in a Thursday night radio interview attracting national attention.

The two-term Democratic congressman said the Tea Party — "without hoods and robes" — has shown an angry, hardcore side of America that's against any type of diversity.

“We saw opposition to African-Americans, hostility toward gays, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just, you know, a clone of George Wallace’s fan club,” he said on The Young Turks, an Internet and satellite radio talk show.

Cohen said he doesn't see a Republican standing up to appeal for reason.

"I think they're afraid of it," he said. "When I saw John McCain stand behind Sarah Palin, he looked more like a captured soldier in North Vietnam than he did a United States senator. It was very sad."

In a telephone interview late Friday, Cohen said Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee, shouldn't be able to sit at the same table as McCain. In her black leather,

Palin looks more like Elvis in his comeback tour than a political leader, he said.

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