Actor and comedian Jim Labriola, most famous for his role on the hit series, Home Improvement, delivers this week’s National Tea Party Address (watch video below).
Touring with the Tea Party Express on the “Fighting for Liberty” bus tour, Labriola speaks candidly about the pro-liberty, pro-Constitution Tea Party movement, saying that attending the rallies,”makes me proud to be an American.”
Speaking about the demonization the movement has been subjected to, being unfairly and without warrant smeared as racist, Labriola said:
“It upsets me because you hear all these complaints on the news that the Tea Party people are racist and homophobic, and they’re all these (makes scary sounds) horrible things. And I’ve got to tell you something [mainstream media]. Why don’t you shut up and come out there [to a Tea Party rally] and look for yourself and see the nicest people you’ll ever neet in your life.”
Labriola explains that he’s attended Tea Party rallies with the Tea Party Express for five years and that his involvement with the movement has been a “life changing experience.” Labriola has observed that a high percentage of people at Tea Party events are veterans, everyone is well-behaved, and that when a rally is over, the “park is cleaner than when they got there.”
Labriola says people involved in the Tea Party movement are, “just good Americans, coming out in a country they totally believe in, seeing it go the wrong way,” a belief Labriola admitted to also sharing.
Labriola says that the racism charges flung against the Tea Party movement is completely unfounded, and that he’s seen none of it. He goes on to chastise the mainstream media for not reporting the many minority leaders in the movement, including the ones he’s met while participating in the Tea Party Express bus tour now taking place across the nation.
Speaking about liberal bias in Hollywood, Labriola jokes about being “popular in the 90′s,” referring to his role in Home Improvement, and says that being a conservative now in Hollywood can cost you your job.
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on March 21, 2015