“Why is okay for Congressman John Lewis to make false charges against John McCain?”
Why? Quite simply, because John lewis is black. He can say whatever he wants, no matter how outrageous, and he suffers no consequences (he is, by virtue of who and what he is, immune from criticism). Welcome to the New America.
April 21, 2008, 6:28 pm Without Notice, McCain Praises Lewis
Elizabeth Holmes reports from Thomasville, Ala., on the presidential race. When John McCain spoke Monday morning about central Alabama’s role in the civil rights struggle, he talked a great deal about Congressman John Lewis — which came as a surprise to Lewis. The Georgia Democrat was one of the first to cross the bridge during a march from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery, some 50 miles east. There he met armed state troopers and received some of the harshest blows in the attack. “John Lewis took the first blow, a baton thrust to the stomach that shoved him back on the marchers behind him,” McCain said. “He took the second blow, too, a hard swung club to his head, leaving a permanent scar where it struck. Blood poured from the wound, darkening his raincoat. He tried to struggle to his feet, and then collapsed unconscious, his skull fractured.” Before he heralded his heroism, McCain failed to drop a line to Lewis. A statement issued by Lewis’s office late Monday read, “Rep. Lewis had no advance knowledge of the nature or intentions of Sen. McCain’s remarks.” Despite not being contacted about his role in the likely Republican nominee’s speech, Lewis offered up kind words for McCain. “I am gratified that Sen. John McCain would take the opportunity to recognize what happened 43 years ago,” Lewis said in a written statement and then compared the Selma incident to that of Appomattox, Lexington and Concord. “These seminal events cut to the core of American democracy. Their significance to all Americans is much bigger, much larger, and much more profound than partisan politics.”
Wall Street Journal-4/21/08
That's why.