Denver Tea Party potty mouth ID'd???

"They call me poopyhead..."

Warning! Video NSFW - contains vile language.

Thanks to a tipster we may have identified the "long haired bleeping gnome" featured in Lefty Infiltrator exposes his true colors at Denver Tea Party 4-15-2010. 

It now appears that he was NOT a lefty infiltrator and for that I apologize.  If you watched the video I'm sure you can all understand how I could have made that honest mistake.  Just to clarify - after reading his bio and doing a quickie Google dive on our long haired bleeping gnome - I can make no claim as to the nature of his political persuasion.  I can claim finding more red flags than you can shake a stick at. 

Read on, pilgrims.

Our anonymous tipster whispers that our long haired bleeping gnome is a local filmmaker named Craig Bodeker.  His latest claim to film fame is the documentary "A Conversation About Race" and its sequel, More Of A Conversation About Race.

Well, after watching that performance yesterday Dinah would sure like to have a conversation with him about manners! 

Take a gander at Mr. Bodeker's (short haired) bio:

Below is a more recent photo from July 2009 courtesy of Mr. Bodeker's Facebook Page.  You will see his hair's a little longer but not as long as in the video.  

<---"At the Shoot" 2009

A Facebook screen grab showing Mr. Bodeker in all his musician-cool, shoulder length hair glory two months ago ---->

In this more recent review by John Ingram of the National Policy Institute Mr. Bodeker is described as: 

" a first-time filmmaker from Colorado with musician-cool shoulder-length hair..."  

Funny, he didn't seem all that COOL at Thursday's rally and it wasn't Mr. Bodeker's first Tea Party rodeo, either.  His cinematic sequel, "More of a Conversation About Race" appears to prominently feature footage from last year's Denver Tea Party.  (Possums, I'd shell out the fifteen clams to purchase the dvd to make sure, but I saw enough of his bleeping show on Thursday to last me a lifetime.  I don't think I could sit through 38 minutes more.)

Interesting that the DVD contains the following disclaimer, isn't it?

This DVD contains adult language and may not be suitable for children.

Odd.  Mr. Bodeker sure wasn't bleeping concerned about the handful of children standing within bleeping earshot of his bleeping tirade the other day! 

And about that "working for the WALL STREET JOURNAL" thing?   Well, given the heat of the moment, I'm sure it was all just a misunderstanding - or something.  Maybe he said he was 'reviewed' by the WSJ not that he bleeping worked there.  It must have been something like that.  Right?   Because the only connection I can determine between Mr. Bodeker and the WSJ is this article by James Taranto which addresses the film, the filmmaker and the controversy surrounding them.

It is this controversy that makes me think my fellow Tea Partiers should be giving this guy a wide berth... 

In an Oct. 9 Hatewatch entry Scherr makes a case against the filmmaker. A reader discovered Bodeker's comments on various YouTube pages, which, Scherr writes, "expose him for the bigot he is":

He repeatedly refers to blacks, including President Barack Obama, as "monkeys." In one post, he uses the anti-gay slur "fag"; in another, he suggests that Van Jones, the black White House advisor who resigned last month, should be lynched.

The same WSJ article provides Mr. Bodeker's rebuttal (in part) from the website of the National Policy Institute:

"(The National Policy Institute...which describes itself as "the right's answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center" and is described by the SPLC as "a racist think tank" and by the Associated Press as "a white-advocacy group"):" (Editor's note:  Consider all sources here, possums.)

[Scherr] relied upon an anonymous cyber-stalker to gather "quotes" attributed to me from the comments section of unrelated political videos from Youtube. She called this piece of journalism "A Peek Behind the Curtain: Views of a Racist Filmmaker . . ,"

Some pretty strong statements were quoted--as well as MIS-quoted, surgically and deceptively edited,, taken out of context, and even made up! And once again, these "quotes" that represent proof of my "racism," were found on the comments section of Youtube.

Have any readers ever been to the comments section on Youtube? Does anyone NOT KNOW what a mosh-pitt of "free expression" it is? There are, sometimes, actual screaming matches (emphasis Dinah's), even though they're conducted in written form. Sometimes people say harsh, mean things there, in that last remaining refuge of Free Speech. Am I to assume that the SPLS's Sonia Scherr has never made a sarcastic comment? Or even a distasteful one? Or that anyone who EVER has should be stereotyped, marginalized and disenfranchised? This seems to be what the SPLC suggests.

Bodeker does not disavow any specific quotes, and he acknowledges that some of them were accurate.

So, Mr. Bodeker is NOT a "lefty infiltrator" but instead IS some kind of closeted racist, bigot, white supremacist, right wing nut with apparent anger management issues who stirs up trouble at the tea parties?

Man, oh man.

To tell you the truth, I have no idea what Mr. Bodeker is - I do know that his behavior at Thursday's tea party was beyond the pale and that the statements attributed to him in Sonia Scherr's Hatewatch article are downright vile.  

In my opinion, there's no room for either kind of Mr. Bodeker's BS nonsense at the Tea Parties.  (Or anywhere else, for that matter.)

And to borrow a few of the words contained in Mr. Bodeker's rebuttal to the charges raised by the WSJ. (The complete text of which can be found here):

"...So instead they call me a poopyhead."

You sure acted like a poopyhead at the Denver Tea Party, Mr. Bodeker.

P.S.  Stay tuned.  I may also have a line on the poor guy that Mr. Bodeker went off on...