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Dems: Protests get ugly, racist (MSNBC barf)
MSNBC ^ | March 20, 2010 | Luke Russert

Posted on 03/20/2010 4:14:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The Tea Party protests got ugly today.

African-American Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), a protege of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helped organize the March on Washington, went to the House floor today to tell Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that a Tea Party protester called him a "n-----."

Another Democratic source confirms to NBC News that openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) was called a "f--" by somebody in the Tea Party crowd.

Rep. Emanaul Cleaver (D-MO), another African-American member, was apparently spit on by a Tea Party protester.

Clyburn, who helped lead sit-ins in South Carolina in the '60s had this to say regarding the Tea Partiers:

"It was absolutely shocking to me, last Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus Pomford University where 50 years ago, as of last Monday, March 15th I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit-ins...quite frankly I heard some things today that I haven't heard since that day. I heard people saying things today I've not heard since March 15th, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus. This is incredible, shocking to me.

He added, "It doesn't make me nervous, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate. ... Well a lot of us have said for a long time that none of this is about healthcare at all. ... It's about extending a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful."

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 111th; aar; bhohealthcare; joeisuzu; msnbc; racecard
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To: counterpunch

look for the union label.....


41 posted on 03/20/2010 4:24:53 PM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am very surprised. I guess the poor little picked on blacks forgot how to tie a noose. ;0)


42 posted on 03/20/2010 4:25:28 PM PDT by seemoAR
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To: seemoAR

The money quote” A spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police said she was unaware of any law enforcement inquiry into the incidents”


43 posted on 03/20/2010 4:26:27 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: cranked

Exactly. If they don’t have anything, they need to shut up.


44 posted on 03/20/2010 4:26:36 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So says Luke Russert - Tim Russert’s son who now works for the bigots at MSNBC who are whiter than any tea party.


45 posted on 03/20/2010 4:27:31 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: digger48

Agree, he has gotten away with all manner of salacious and unethical behavior because he’s in a “protected class”.


46 posted on 03/20/2010 4:27:33 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That is not ugly, just rude. Wait till the bill passes if you want to see ugly.


47 posted on 03/20/2010 4:28:30 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Free ThinkerNY
African-American Congressman John Lewis (D-GA),... went to the House floor today to tell Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that a Tea Party protester called him a "n-----."

The "n-----" word somebody called him was probably "Nazi". It is completely true, and it fits.

48 posted on 03/20/2010 4:28:49 PM PDT by Gritty (We have a duty to resist tyranny - Michelle Bachmann)
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To: Blue Turtle

So... (rhetorical question?)

what possible public good could come about by the press turning the late unpleasantness into a racial issue?


49 posted on 03/20/2010 4:29:04 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Lying bastards! They’ve lied about the “healthcare reform”, why wouldn’t they lie about this?


50 posted on 03/20/2010 4:29:20 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Nice try, Snopes. We need to bring this up again since MSNBC taking the side of the "aggrieved" Democrats.


51 posted on 03/20/2010 4:29:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Alfred E. Neuman for President! Oh, wait a minute ...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They are all saying it now. Soon every member of that racist CBC group will come out and say they were yelled at or spat on. It is orchestrated and evil. They are thugs and liars.


52 posted on 03/20/2010 4:29:35 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: JerseyDvl; Sarah Barracuda
[JD] With HC hanging in the balance they are really ratcheting up the propaganda campaign.

Yup, it sounds like a coordinated smear campaign. Oh! My virgin ears! Wonder what people were shouting during the 1992 South Central L.A. riots, hmmmm? NBC go live back then to catch those fresh expressions?

53 posted on 03/20/2010 4:29:51 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Free ThinkerNY
My inspiration for how I will look at the next TEA rally


54 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:08 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The DUmmies are having orgasms over this.

I won’t post a link to that trash heap here though.


55 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:13 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: Freedom4US

Divide and conquer...get their base riled up and angry. Blacks need to smarten up and realize that the DEMS and the chosen one are just using them for the bait...their lives haven’t improved, they MUST wonder why?


56 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:34 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The Tea Party protests got ugly today.

Want to know what's really ugly? MSNBC's ratings. LOL.

57 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:41 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: GloriaJane

That’s racist! /s


58 posted on 03/20/2010 4:31:52 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Prayers Up! It's our last defense!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

MSNBC Headline: Tea party protestors chant “Kill The Bill”. Obviously a death threat against former president Clinton.


59 posted on 03/20/2010 4:32:09 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: icwhatudo
Looks like B.S. right in the title of that YouTube video: “Tea Party protesters mob Reps Lewis, Carson, Cummings”.

The protesters are just standing still. Are we to presume that, just before the video started, they all rapidly moved from somewhere else to “mob” the congressmen, but were suddenly standing in place once the video started?

It appears, rather, that the congressmen CHOSE to walk through the protesters. Like as not -- believing their own smears of conservatives as universally racist -- they were hoping to provoke an N-word incident. When one failed to occur, they stuck with the plan and reported one anyway. After all, they KNOW the protesters really WANTED to say the N-word, because they really are conservatives and THEREFORE racists, so: FAKE BUT ACCURATE!

60 posted on 03/20/2010 4:32:20 PM PDT by Stultis (Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
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