Health-Care Protests Bring Out Racists, Homophobes - NPR Trashes Tea Party Again

National Public Radio ^ | 03/21/2010 | Frank James

[crymeariver]

It's sad but not surprising that some of those protesting Saturday against health-care overhaul legislation literally spit on at least one congressman and shouted racial and homophobic epithets as well.

Some of us have long suspected that at least part of the opposition to the overhaul is part of the free-form hostility some Americans feel towards the political ascendancy of people who don't look like them or who have a different sexual orientation.

[TigersEye]

Yellow journalism. They have no facts or evidence at all that racial epithets ever occurred. It was just repeated again as fact on Fox News.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., won't press charges after being spat on by ...protestor (I call BS)

Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia's John Lewis

ABC: Anti-ObamaCare Protest ‘Turned Very Ugly’ with ‘Racial and Homophobic Slurs’

All of these accusations have proven to be unfounded. No video or audio exists to support them and no charges were filed by Emanuel Cleaver.

Fox News is reporting these lies. I just e-mailed them and challenged them to provide evidence. Let them hear what you think about that at Friends@foxnews.com

Congressman Tim Ryan D-OH uses a homosexual slur against Tea Partiers on the floor of the House.

Congressman Ryan Denounces Protestor Behavior

Congressman Tim Ryan D-OH uses a homosexual slur against Tea Partiers on the floor of the House.

Congressman Ryan Denounces Protestor Behavior

[Anti-Bubba182]

Where is the Video showing any of this? Why didn't Cleaver press charges. It would be a great opportunity to discredit the Protesters. Could it be because it is not true.

I can't believe in this age of cameras in cell phones and reporters all over capitol hill that no one got some video of the alleged racial incidents that would be playing ALL the time.

What pisses me off even more is that Fox News is reporting it as if these incidents happened.

[mono]

Boehner ans Steele from GOP verified and condemned on tv this am.

[muawiyah]

Every individual there who can be identified on Breitbart’s film (or another one of the event) should bring suit against NPR, or at least the individual reporter ~ for LIBEL.

[muawiyah]

Well, Ryan can’t be held to answer for that in any other place ~ BY THE GOVERNMENT, but private individuals will eventually make him pay for it.

[Gay State Conservative]

must have been down do they turned = must have been down so they turned

[TigersEye]

The media could run a clip of him saying it, along with their unsubstantiated allegations of racist epithets, and say something about the bizarre sex practice meaning of it.

I'm afraid Fox News doesn't really have the guts or the integrity to do that. Pity. They have pretended for quite some time that they do.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

They must be exposed and identified for what they are!

Absolutely agree!! Earlier we know there were SEIU members at Tea Party gatherings and a town hall meetings abusing and cursing a black man and generally causing a disruption but that got little media attention. It looks like we will have to do the investigations and reporting ourselves.