Infiltrator trying to pass as Rand Paul fan wrote column bashing Tea Party

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Infiltrator trying to pass as Rand Paul fan wrote column bashing Tea Party
By Alex Pappas -- The Daily Caller

There’s more evidence that the dubious “supporter” of U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul who spouted racist comments at a Kentucky political event last weekend was a fake trying to inflict damage upon the Republican nominee’s campaign.

According to Kentucky columnist Brandon Kiser, Trey Collins wrote a column in the Crittenden County newspaper in June bashing Tea Party activists.

Though Collins took to Kentucky’s Fancy Farms event with a political sign of bilingual TV star Dora the Explorer last weekend (“she’s illegal and she’s corrupting our children,” Collins told WHAS11 TV), Collins criticized Tea Party activists in a June column for displaying distasteful signs at political events.

“As Americans we should have respect for the office, and cropping pictures to make the president look like Hitler is doing our country a disservice,” he wrote.

Collins also cited the Bible for his disapproval of the Tea Party movement and blamed free-market principles for the Great Depression.

The WHAS11 TV reporter who first interviewed Collins was noticeably skeptical at the time that Collins was a true Rand Paul supporter. Then, Dave Weigel at Slate posted a video after the event that showing Collins walking with supporters of Democratic nominee, Jack Conway.

Collins, who could not immediately be reached for comment, was identified in the story as a political science major at Murray State University.

YouTube- ‪Jack Conway Supporter Racism and Rand Paul Smears At Fancy Farm‬‎

 

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From Slate.com

Tea Party Infiltration Done Wrong
By David Weigel

It's rarely convincing when Tea Party activists brush off attacks on the movement by claiming that the bad apples at their rallies are really agents provocateurs. That's just too convenient. Sometimes, the people who make you look bad actually are part of your movement. But a videographer at this weekend's Fancy Farm political celebration in Kentucky hounded a man wearing Rand Paul swag and holding up a racist anti-immigrant sign, badgering him to reveal who he was. The cameraman caught back up with him when, later, the man walked with supporters Paul's opponent, Jack Conway.

 

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More About Tyler Collins, the Man Who Posed as a Rand Paul Fan, Complete With Tinfoil Hat

Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:04 PM | By David Weigel


I just talked to Tyler Collins, who politely declined to comment as he adjusts to life as the subject of a multi-tier campaign of citizen journalism investigating his life as a Democratic activist. You know Collins. He was the guy who dressed up as a slack-jawed "Rand Paul fan," wearing a tinfoil hat and holding a sign that echoed/parodied conservative fears about illegal immigration.


Why is Collins lying low? Because he has a long picture and paper trail as a Democratic activist. Brandon Kiser has posted a column Collins, a political science student at Murray State University, wrote for a local paper. It's mostly tame stuff critical of the tea party movement. "If we would have had the Tea Party state of mind," Collins writes, "many elderly people would have frozen and starved to death because others would have been in their generator-heated homes oblivious to the fact and content in their cozy situations." BREAKING NEWS: he's a liberal activist. Here is a picture, from Collins's now-suspended Facebook page, of the future fake tea partyer campaigning for Barack Obama.