Think Progress � Interloper tricks Tea Party audience into an anti-European immigrant chant of ‘Columbus go home!’

h/t Marshall. "Columbus, go home!"

Think Progress � Interloper tricks Tea Party audience into an anti-European immigrant chant of ‘Columbus go home!’:

On Saturday, a few dozen anti-immigration activists gathered on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol for a Tea Party, part of the nationwide effort by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). But somehow, one of the counter-protesters, a “concerned citizen from Minneapolis” named “Robert Erickson,” manged to get on the speaking list. His address started with the standard anti-immigrant rhetoric, but then revealed that he was talking about European immigrants. By this time, however, the crowd was in a frenzy and joined him in his chants of “Columbus go home!” and “Europeans out!”: