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 ...
look for the union label.....
I am very surprised. I guess the poor little picked on blacks forgot how to tie a noose. ;0)
The money quote” A spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police said she was unaware of any law enforcement inquiry into the incidents”
Exactly. If they don’t have anything, they need to shut up.
So says Luke Russert - Tim Russert’s son who now works for the bigots at MSNBC who are whiter than any tea party.
Agree, he has gotten away with all manner of salacious and unethical behavior because he’s in a “protected class”.
That is not ugly, just rude. Wait till the bill passes if you want to see ugly.
The "n-----" word somebody called him was probably "Nazi". It is completely true, and it fits.
So... (rhetorical question?)
what possible public good could come about by the press turning the late unpleasantness into a racial issue?
Lying bastards! They’ve lied about the “healthcare reform”, why wouldn’t they lie about this?
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.
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?
The DUmmies are having orgasms over this.
I won’t post a link to that trash heap here though.
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?
Want to know what's really ugly? MSNBC's ratings. LOL.
That’s racist! /s
MSNBC Headline: Tea party protestors chant “Kill The Bill”. Obviously a death threat against former president Clinton.
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!
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