Following Mark Williams highly racist blog post we have started seeing wingnuts run to his defense. For example, here is Ed Driscoll

But I’m sure the NAACP will agree that once a group reaches a large enough size, there are bound to be the occasional radical fringe elements associated with it. Such as rabid anti-Semites Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who were each invited to speak at the NAACP’s national conventions in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

So Mark Williams was a “fringe element”, even though he is chairman of the Tea Party Express? Please. Driscoll is being nothing but a racist apologist here, and that makes his actions every bit as bad as those of Williams.

Or perhaps this is another case of slight of hand, an attempt to distract from the bigger story:

The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that seeks to represent the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled Williams and his Tea Party Express organization because of the inflammatory blog post Williams wrote last week, federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday. In response, Williams announced in another statement on his blog that, “I am refusing all media requests on this” and canceled a scheduled interview on CNN to discuss the controversy Sunday evening, citing a last-minute change in travel plans.

Will Driscoll question why the TPF expelled an entire organization over a “fringe element”? I doubt it because wingnuts can never address the true situation. Their only defense is to try and change the story to something it isn’t.