Posted on 04/05/2010 9:39:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Listen closely and you can hear the sound of crickets chirping over at the Kansas City Star after their Readers Representative, Derek Donovan, recommended a re-examination by that newspaper of their initial story of a supposed "hate crime" committed at the Capitol steps Tea Party in Washington D.C. on March 20:
I've talked to many, many readers this week about continuing fallout from claims that members of "tea party" protests shouted racial slurs at members of the Congressional Black Caucus and one spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver on March 20.
The Web and the talk shows are awash with reports that the word "nigger" wasn't recorded by people with video cameras. Some have also disputed that Cleaver was spat on, though a video shows pretty clearly to me that he reacted that way contemporaneously. Was it simply spittle from the man yelling in his face, rather than a single intentional spit? You can't tell from the video -- but if someone was yelling at me so forcefully that he also spit on me, I'm not sure I'd make much differentiation there.
As I wrote earlier in the week, the initial report in The Star March 21 should have attributed the claims to the people who made them, instead of simply reporting them as fact.
Yes, a story by William Douglas which was speed written in record time. Of course, the Kansas City Star is now taking its sweet time about actually verifying the "facts" behind the story. One place they might want to start is by Googling "Emanuel Cleaver" and discovering his latest reaction to the spitting incident:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Still no one has take up Andrew Breitbart’s offer of $100,000.00 to produce proof of any racial bias either. Hmmm???
Facts? Facts! We don't need no stinkin' facts!
“In an interview on Tuesday with FOX 4 News, Rep. Cleaver would not directly answer the question of whether or not he was intentionally spit upon.”
If he was, he would say so.
Since they can’t Alinsky a single leader of the movement, they have to Alinksy us all.
Emmanuel Cleaver is a lying POS.
Duke Lacrosse, anyone?
Jena 6, anyone?
Noose/ghetto-parties at UC-San Diego, anyone?
Tawana Brawley, anyone?
Victim narrative (shattered).
Cleaver said he never talked to the police about such an incident.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Allegations of racism also serve as a disincentive for blacks to join the movement, which allows the MSM to maintain the propaganda that the movement is "racist".
This is 'race baiting' at its worst, and the MSM is doing it! Somewhere, on a 'liberation' pulpit, someone is sowing the seeds of hatred by asserting that TEA partiers are "racists". They are not only setting back race relations in this country by fifty years, they are sowing the seeds of what may turn out to be violent action by members of their own congregations who may be incited to violent action against those they have come to perceive as being racially motivated because of the swill the MSM has been pumping over the airwaves and spewing onto the printed page.
It’s called Selective Reporting.
KC Star is especially go at it.
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