Hoft's Occupy Phoenix Neo-Nazi Previously Attended Tea Party Rallies

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110270025

October 27, 2011 4:51 pm ET by Matt Gertz

For some time, the right-wing media has been attempting to brand Occupy Wall Street and related protests as anti-Semitic. In the latest example, conservative blogger Jim Hoft is pointing to video of heavily armed Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready patrolling the Occupy Phoenix protest and saying nice things about the movement.

Hoft sarcastically concludes, "Yup. They're just like the tea party."

It's worth pointing out that much of the rhetoric Ready spouts during the video -- decrying fiat money, saying that he and others were "exercising our Second Amendment right so that everybody can have a First Amendment right," claiming that Operation Fast and Furious was intended to "take away our rights" and the perpetrators are traitors who should be put to death -- sounds much more like the rhetoric of a conservative protestor than an OWS supporter.

And indeed, that's the problem for Hoft: Ready previously attended and reportedly spoke at Tea Party rallies.

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1. Jim Hoft isn't a particularly bright star in the RW blogger universe.

I can't tell you how many times he's been ridiculed by the Sadly No's and T-Boggs for really stupid posts.