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Rachel Maddow was not pleased with the National Tea Party Convention’s opening speech from Rep. Tom Tancredo — a “big, loud racist bang,” she called Tancredo’s advocacy for a literacy test for voters. “People who could not even spell the word vote, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House,” Tancredo said, leading Maddow to compare the crowd to the Ku Klux Klan.

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The Tea Party movement got a lot of play on last night’s On The Record with Greta Van Susteren. Mike Huckabee voiced his support for the group in populist tones, while Sarah Palin, spoke of her ties to the Party as well. “Oh, you betcha I’m going to be there,” Palin said of the national convention where she will be paid $150,000 to speak. But trouble has been brewing.