'The Good Wife' Actor Charges Tea Party Imbued with 'Homophobia and Racism'

Brent Baker | September 25, 2011
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Actor Alan Cumming, who was born in Britain and plays the scheming campaign manager “Eli Gold” on The Good Wife which has its season premiere Sunday night (Sept 25) on CBS, contended on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight that the U.S. is “full of such hatred in terms of politics.” The bi-sexual actor conceded the Tea Party has “some quite sensible notions,” but he charged “that kind of seems to be an umbrella thing that just covers up a lot of real homophobia and racism.”

Referring to opposition to same-sex marriage, Cumming insisted: “I just think the Tea Party is out of touch with America, actually. That’s the sad thing for them to have to come to terms with.”

Transcript and more in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

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