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Maddow characterized his speech and the "much maligned" convention as starting off with a "big, loud racist bang." Maddow then shows a clip of Tancredo advocating for literacy tests for voters: "People who could not even spell the word 'vote,' or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama," Tancredo said.
Maddow then compares Tancredo and the crowd to the Ku Klux Klan. Video via Mediaite:
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