Posted on 03/21/2010 12:23:54 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
Though by their own count “thousands” of anti-ObamaCare protesters gathered outside the Capitol building on Saturday, ABC decided to smear the entire cause by stressing the despicable actions of a handful or even fewer as anchor David Muir announced in setting up the first story on Saturday’s World News:
“Protesters against the plan gathered on the streets of the capital where late today we learned words shouted turned very ugly, reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one protester actually spitting on a Congressman.”
Following the lead story on President Barack Obama’s pep talk to House Democrats, and before Jonathan Karl’s count on where the vote stands (he put it at 212 yes versus 214 no), Muir went to:
Late word from Washington tonight about just how ugly the crowds gathered outside the Longworth office building have become. We learned that as Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri was leaving his office someone in the crowd spit on him. There are also reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one targeting Congressman John Lewis, the famous civil rights champion, and the other involving Congressman Barney Frank. You can listen in for yourself.
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Agent provocateurs.
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Most likely none of this occurred.
They lie!
Is this the same ABC that won’t call Muslim terrorists terrorists?
It’s not the protestors fault that the cowardly public servants inside the Capitol kept referring to them as “tea baggers”. Those piggies are the ones who need to apologize to the homosexuals, not the protestors.
You know what? It has gotten to the point where if it did happen, I could stand to give a crap. They do not give a crap about our consent but will get their panties in a wad if they are insulted? They deserved to get dragged behind a car.
The White House Fax was issued quickly.
Unless ABC wants to hold a double standard, then they need to place the blame on the Democratic Party for making a few of these people so very angry.
"We learned that as Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri was leaving his office someone in the crowd spit on him."From firsthand witness: this report is crap. Pure lies. An absolute joke actually.
Tea Party protest, lots of "kill the bill" and booing but no racist comments at all
My, the libs get pissy when their own tactics are used against them. I see nothing wrong with in-kind tactics.
The media got us into this Obama mess with their lack of investigative reporting during his campaign. Now investigating and reporting truthfully on anti-Obamacare citizens? Why would the media start now? It’s looking more like they’re PRAVDA and this is the USSR of old. Did Obama have KGB there too?
I think D.C. has enough lamp posts to go around...
Big friggen deal. The criminal deserves prison time for his role in the loan fiasco and subsequent financial meltdown, so it's difficult to get outraged about someone going to the "Barney Fag" card.
Wanna bet the Congressman isn’t pressing charges is because then we would learn the name of the so-called ‘racist teabagger’ = which means they can’t take a chance of the rest of us learning that he’s a member of SEIU or somesuch, a plant in the crowd designed to cause trouble! Meh.
I hear you.
When you’re down and out and as desperate as the commie ‘RATS are right now, your mind can play tricks on you and you hear all sorts of weird voices. Some people call them “voices in my head”. I imagine these pixies were hearing “racial slurs” because they wanted to hear them.
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