Tea Baggers held a “Uni-Tea” (get it?) rally in Philadelphia last weekend for which the main draw was Andrew Breitbart, the newest racist phenom in tea baggery since, well, two weeks ago when Mark Williams was forced to resign from the Tea Party Express, the Republican Party group that astroturfed the tea party bus tours, after he exposed his own virulent racism in his infamous “Colored People” letter.

So, hosting a rally against racism that starred Breitbart, the David Duke of new media — how do you think that worked out?

Was Saturday’s Uni-Tea rally in Philadelphia a success? Well, it depends on your definition of “epic fail.” …If you’re the kind of tea partier who’d like to see that abounding not-racism result in some actual demographic diversity in the movement, the Uni-Tea rally appeared to be a borderline disaster.

For three hours, a small crowd drifted in and out of Independence Park as speakers and musicians regaled them with paranoia about Democratic politicians and policies and reassurances that no matter what anyone says, there’s no racism in the tea party.

And then, fresh from the scandal in which it was revealed Andrew Breitbart had provided video to Fox News of a speech by civil rights pioneer Shirley Sherrod that had been deceptively edited so that it appeared that Sherrod had made racist statements about white people, Breitbart arrived on the scene and spoke with reporters before taking the stage:

Asked directly several times, Breitbart said he would not discuss the [Sherrod] incident.

“This is a preplanned event that predates anything that’s in the news,” he said of the rally, organized to show the diverse appeal of the political right.

“I flew here at my own expense to show my solidarity with a group of people who have the right to gather in the United States of America and express their belief in what I believe is the most important concept in this country that has been lost in the last generation, and that is e pluribus unum.”

The media, Breitbart told reporters, in cahoots with black politicians and the Democratic Party, are dividing the country with false allegations of racism aimed at the tea-party groups.

“It’s cynical politics,” he said. “I’m more than happy to talk about this very noxious form of trying to stifle political speech in the United States. It’s un-American.”

Many tea-party leaders appeared uncomfortable in the aftermath of Breitbart’s dustup with the NAACP and Sherrod.

Jeffrey Weingarten, organizer of the “Uni-Tea Party” event, said Breitbart had been invited to speak many months ago, “well before any of the recent radical pronouncements of either side” in the Sherrod and NAACP controversies.

“In fact,” Weingarten said, “officially, organizationally, I’ll tell you we view radical statements from anyone as extremist and not as partisan, and they should be roundly condemned by all people.”

Breitbart — whose headliner at an RNC fundraiser in Beverly Hills scheduled for Aug. 12 was canceled on Saturday, around the same time he was at the Uni-Tea rally — spoke for about 20 minutes. The video of his speech was edited into five minute segments and posted in four videos on YouTube. If you’ve never heard Breitbart speak, and you want to get a flavor of what a practiced liar he is, enjoy (but be warned: your skin will crawl) –