do I really have to say it???
Posted on 04/03/2010 5:03:38 AM PDT by Gordon Pym
do I really have to say it???
bttt
But a lawsuit can help get the fraud out front for the innoncent sheeple who still follow these “news” outlets.
Jim Moran, Tim Kaine and some other idiot Democrat were to be attending a fundraiser for the mosque and someone was trying to organize a protest. It's a bad idea.
“The McClatchy reporter William Douglas refers to Huffington Post contributor Sam Snead as a source in his article. But… The Huffington Post did not post their article until 4:56 PM EST:”
Not to be a wet blanket, but most reporters talk to their sources directly, as opposed to lifting info from blogs. This timing in no way precludes Douglas from having interviewed Snead prior to his posting. The specific quote says:
“Frank said the crowd consisted of a couple of hundred of people and that they referred to him as ‘homo.’ A writer for The Huffington Post said the protesters called Frank a “faggot.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/20/90772/rep-john-lewis-charges-protesters.html#ixzz0k30rLexA
The reporter clearly interviewed Frank, since several more quotes of his are used. But he used the term “said” in the case of both Frank and Snead, who was identified only as a writer for Huffington Post. Had he lifted Snead’s remark from a blog, he could have and should have said “A writer for The Huffington Post posted blah, blah, blah.” This is much ado about nothing.
But I was intrigued by another claim in the story.
“Cleaver’s office said later in a statement that he’d also been spat upon and that Capitol Police had arrested his assailant. The statement praised the police, who Cleaver said escorted the members of Congress into the Capitol past the demonstrators.
“The man who spat on the congressman was arrested, but the congressman has chosen not to press charges,” the statement said.”
Isn’t that a flat-out lie? I’ve only seen the video, where it appeared Cleaver couldn’t even identify the person who had “spat.” And many FR posters doubted the legitimacy of his claim of spitting on grounds that the officer who observed the encounter did NOT arrest the alleged spitter. Anyone know a different story? That is, is there any source other than a truth-twisting black Congressman who can verify that an arrest was made?
Better to sue McClatchy ~ they are certainly liable for libel AND, to make it worse, they cannot even subpoena those Congresscritters on their behalf.
“However, Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the U.S. Capitol Police said in an e-mail to the L.A. Times, “We did not make any arrests today.”
A properly functioning media would have connected the dots:
“News Flash: Capitol Police Call Congressman Cleaver a Liar.”
But in a cesspool like Washington DC, it rarely pays to speak truth to power.
These people were egged on by phone calls from an out of state phone bank.
During the Scott Brown campaign people were getting cell phone calls from out of state that were supposedly in support of Brown. A lot of calls, at least 3-4 calls a day. on your cell phone.
It was a dirty trick by a firm hired by the DNC. It didn't work and these gags won't work because the voting public is getting smarter. People have video cameras in their phones now and the old style "political theater" will be exposed.
It worked in Florida in 2000.
Let’s hope that everyone has wised up. But we have to make sure it’s public knowledge.
We have to get smarter as to how we operate. Taking a page from the civil rights movement would be a good place to start.
You see, people respond to images and the public now has the image of black leaders “bravely” confronting the angry crowd and facing the taunts hurled at them. Of course, this isn’t the truth, but that really doesn’t matter because that’s how it had been portrayed.
Consider the same image of Nancy with her oversize gavel leading her sycophants through the crowd with the protesters turning their backs in silence with a sign on each back that read “they won’t listen” or “ignored, but not forgotten.” I’m not good at this, but you can get the picture. Another idea would be for the 10,000+ to lie down during the Pelosi PR march, each protester with a sign that read “death panel victim.” A little dramatic, but let’s put them on defense and try to make them look bad.
We have to learn to hold our fire, work smarter and let the left hang themselves. They really are their own worst enemies, but we keep getting in the way of their own demise.
The tea party should be prepared for similar tricks at the April 15 rally, especially fake protesters causing trouble.
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