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On Saturday the leftist media reported on a horrible story from their sources at the anti-military Jew-hating conservative-hating Huffington Post. The media claimed that members of the Congressional Black Caucus were called n*ggers and spat on by tea party protesters as they walked from the Longworth office building to the Rayburn office building. At least one report said that it was “a chorus” of racist hatred. Reporters from ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, (including Bill O’Reilly), MSNBC, etc. reported on this horrible story. Unfortunately, it was a fake. They had no evidence… Nothing. It was totally made up.In fact, a...

This bogus story pushed by the media since Saturday continues to have holes punched in it, which is no surprise to us, there isn't anyone who can produce audio about the story..2 more videos of Lewis

I'm calling Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson, Emanuel Cleaver and the news media liars. Despicable liars. It's been nealy 48 hours since the three Democrat Congressmen made their claims that they were called "n*****" by Tea Party protesters.The trio described a scene straight out of Bull Connor as they walked through protesters on Capitol Hill, claiming that a "chorus" of voices chanted "n*****" fifteen times at them.With all the news media on the Hill, with all the protesters and liberal operatives on the Hill with video recorders and cellphone video devices there is no proof that has been presented. There...

I find it fascinating that in all the reports in the MSM on the story involving racial epithets being shouted at black Congressmen, very few mention that the only evidence for these racial slurs comes from the Congressmen themselves. And they'd never lie about something like that, right? Dan Loesch has a video of the Congressmen in question walking past tea party protestors and, while the slurs might have been shouted before or after the video, they are not being used while this particular camera was rolling:

Rep. Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, claims that "tea party" protesters hurled racial slurs at fellow CBC member Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat. Mr. Carson said that "hundreds of people" were chanting, "Kill the bill," and he heard "at least 15 times" the "n – word" being thrown around. "It just happened on the way to votes. Coming out of [the Cannon House Office Building] . . . John Lewis’ chief of staff came with us. It was just the three of us walking down the steps. 'Kill the bill, kill the...

(SNIP) No one screamed “n***er.” No one screamed “f*ggot.” No one was spit on. Do you suppose the state-run media will correct their propaganda piece now? Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver says he will not press charges for being spit on. That’s probably a good idea.

Fox news Producer Chad Pergram was just on the phone with anchor Megyn Kelly excitedly telling the story of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walking arm and arm with Rep. John Lewis though a throng of thousands of Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill who were chanting "kill the bill."Pergram compared the scene to civil rights era marches with Pelosi and Lewis as the good guys and the Tea Party protesters as the bad guys.Lewis and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus have made unsubstantiated charges that they were called n***** by protesters yesterday while walking between the...

John Lewis was quite a student organizer-protestor in the Civil Rights Movement. He got beat up quite a few times. A one time he actually worked with a younger Robert K. (B-1 Bob) Dornan on voter registration in the South. But his militancy of speech could sometimes stir up controversy. In August of 1963, Lewis was to speak before Martin Luther King at the Lincoln Memorial in the now famous event. The day before the march, according to author Taylor Branch in his biographical epic on Martin Luther King (Parting The Waters: America In The King Years `1954-1963)Page 874: "Trouble...

WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.

A video has surfaced this evening of the incident today involving civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill.Rep. Lewis has alleged that he was called a n***** by the protesters. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), who was walking with Rep. Lewis, says he heard the word n***** fifteen times.Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) claims "It was a chorus" of people yelling "n*****."The video, filmed by Marooned in Marin and posted at YouTube, shows Reps. Lewis and Carson walking together, with Rep. Cleaver several yards behind as they fight their way through the Tea Party patriots...

A Democrat Congressman who says he was a few yards behind Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) as he was walking between Congressional buildings today when Lewis was allegedly called a n***** by Tea Party protesters says that it was actually a chorus of voices calling Lewis a n*****.Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo) is quoted by McClatchy Newspapers as saying he "distinctly heard" Lewis called a n*****:"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff - they're being whipped up. I decided I wouldn't be angry with any of them."Politico has...

CNN's Capitol Hill correspondent Dana Bash is reporting that Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a black Congressman who is a Civil Rights era icon, was called a "n*****" by Tea Party protesters gathered on Capitol Hill today to rally against the Democrat's healthcare bill.Bash also reported Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) was called a slur related to his homosexuality by Tea Party protesters.No video so far of either incident.Bash did note that the most constant and resonant words of the Tea Party protesters were "Kill the bill!" And that that chant was inescapable on the Hill today.

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US Islamist Congressman Keith Ellison was arrested as he was protesting for aid groups to be allowed into Darfur to help his Muslim brothers. He was asked to leave and would not, subsequently he was arrested. Would Mr.Ellison of showed so much passion if it were not Muslims involved? I doubt it.

Here is video of ex-KKK member, Elwin Wilson, who beat Rep. John Lewis at a South Carolina bus station nearly 50 years ago apologizing to Rep. Lewis and talking to him. The two were interviewed on CNN yesterday, February 7, 2009. This is a very moving interview. It demonstrates the capacity of people to change. Mr. Wilson indicated he has received hate calls as a result of issuing his apology. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

This past weekend husband and wife FReepers flew to Washington DC to pick up our niece. Departing from Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson Airport, we waited at the Delta gate of our delayed flight. With an open copy of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism on my lap, and the latest National Review peaking out of my handbag, I looked up to see none other than Congressman John Lewis (D). The same race card playing John Lewis whose remarks in the final days of the campaign likened John McCain and Sarah Palin to George Wallace. Upon seeing him there, I immediately folded my Goldberg...

There's a new strategy hatched from the left, proof an Obama nation will not unite our country. It's as ugly as anything I've seen in politics. It hit me last week when Obama supporter and Democrat Congressman John Lewis compared McCain-Palin audiences to the people who voted for Gov. George Wallace, a white segregationist and Democrat who ran Alabama 40 years ago and has been dead for a decade. I'm sure many Obamites bought into his comparison. Rep. Lewis is a Civil Rights hero and should recognize stark, evil racism when he sees it, right? But it's sad, really sad,...

-snip- McCain knows perfectly well that Obama is more likely to be targeted by a nutty assassin than a white candidate would be. That’s the reason Homeland Security ordered Secret Service protection for Obama in May 2007, the earliest any candidate has been given a security detail. So why would McCain stoke the fires of resentment and risk igniting a homicidal maniac? That’s why he was criticized by Congressman Lewis, who never said McCain was a segregationist, like Wallace. Lewis did, however, say that the inflammatory rhetoric McCain and, especially, Palin have used reminded him of the “atmosphere of hate”...

Throughout this campaign, we have heard the steady cries of racism ... people say that the only reason the most liberal Senator ever to run for president – a leftist Senator with a penchant for Marxist ideology – could possibly lose this election is because he is black and people are racist. As we get closer to the election, these stories have exploded into the media. Let's go down the list of the few we got just over the weekend! We have foreign leaders (technically a former leader) like Fidel Castro saying that the only reason million of people will...

The nastiness of the 2006 campaign season has largely died away, forgotten amid the swearing-in ceremonies and gavel transfers of a new political landscape. But in this normally resilient city, one 30-second radio advertisement for a relatively obscure county race has lingered uncomfortably in people’s minds. In the advertisement, Atlanta’s three most prominent black leaders, Mayor Shirley Franklin, Representative John Lewis and Andrew Young, the politician and civil rights leader, evoked the police dogs and water hoses of the civil rights movement to urge voters not to support a Republican candidate for the Fulton County Commission. Though the candidate was...