Ooops... wrong rally. Sorry, Cynthia. You may now return to your baseless fairy tales.
Posted on 03/24/2010 5:55:29 AM PDT by NoDRodee
My 1st thread Post: Let me know if anything wrong
A few months ago, former President Jimmy Carter was widely denounced for pointing out that racism is an element in the fiery opposition to President Obama’s policies. Carter’s critics included Democratic pollster and pundit James Carville, who insisted that polling showed no such racism.
It’s too bad Carville wasn’t on the grounds of the Capitol on Saturday, when tea party protestors hurled the N-word at two black Democrats, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). A protestor spat on another black Democrat, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
(As if to demonstrate that they hold a deep-seated animosity toward all minority groups, the crowd of angry protestors serenaded U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an openly gay Democrat, with anti-gay slurs.)
Lewis said the tea-partiers — gathered to protest sweeping legislation providing universal access to health care — reminded him of ugly anti-integration crowds in the 1950s and ’60s.
“There’s been this unreal, downright mean spirit that’s sort of loose in the land. It reminded me of some of the pictures you saw in newspapers and magazines in the 1950s and ’60s when little black children were trying to integrate schools. It reminded me of Central High (Little Rock, Ark.) in 1957,” he said.
Despite the chants and epithets, Lewis and his colleagues were undeterred. On Sunday, Lewis locked arms with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and two other Democrats, faced down the protestors (with protection from Capitol police) and walked across the street to the Capitol for a vote Lewis deemed “historic.”
Republicans were undeterred, as well. Never mind the race-baiting and anti-gay slurs. Never mind the chants of “Go back to Africa” as President Obama’s motorcade drove by last Saturday. Republicans eagerly embraced the protestors, fusing the party of Lincoln with a movement fueled, in part, by bigotry.
Oh, Republican leaders managed to summon a bit of displeasure at the racial epithets when TV cameras were rolling. On “Meet the Press” Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner called the outbursts “reprehensible” before dismissing them as “a few isolated incidents.” Similarly, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, who is black, said, “It’s certainly not a reflection of the movement or the Republican Party when you have idiots out there saying stupid things.”
Oh, but it is a reflection on the Grand Old Party, whose members openly incited the tea partiers to ever-more-outrageous levels of hysteria last weekend. Republican members of Congress stood on the House balcony during the debate on the health care reform bill, waving their own signs — “Kill the bill!” — at the protestors. Worse yet, Republicans cheered two hecklers who yelled from the House public gallery before they were arrested.
Some Republican Congressmen said they didn’t see any reason to get upset about a few epithets. “Well, I think that when you use totalitarian tactics, people, you know, begin to act crazy,” U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told C-Span’s Washington Journal.
U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who was a speaker at one of the weekend protest rallies, was not troubled, either. “I just don’t think it’s anything,” he said.
Perhaps the oddest reaction, though, came from Fox News’ Glenn Beck, patron saint of the tea party movement, who denounced Lewis and Pelosi for their walk to the Capitol. “They locked arms because they wanted to compare themselves to the civil rights activists. How dare you!” he fumed on Monday.
Beck doesn’t know that Lewis was a hero of the civil rights movement? It’s telling that he displays such ignorance about the nation’s recent racial history.
None of this can do the Republican Party any good. The Democrats were virtually shut out of the White House for decades because they were closely identified with their fringe. The GOP, with its base of birthers, tenthers and tea partiers, faces a similar fate.
Which is the Real ‘Racist’ Party: Fifteen Questions for Democrats
Great Moments in Democrat Racist History - FDR
http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-moments-in-democrat-racist.html
Has anyone actually seen images or video of the supposed “spitting” and racial epitaph spewing?
Notice hoiw the gutless wonders don’t allow comments
Beware of infiltration of ACORN members or Kos Kids into tea party protests......they will hurl racists names to discredit the movement.
there....fixed it.....the plantation system continues unabated...
Lewis has an active imagination, probably induced from getting his head busted by his fellow ‘rats back in ‘65.
Why were they walking through the T Party unless it was staged and they had the story before they went. They were provoking an incident. Nobody on our side heard it, but a dem claims it so it must be true.
The old racist cliche, how original.
Pray for America
They want to make this about racism when it’s really about communism. I despise Pelois and Reid and they’re white.
Cynthia Tucker hates white people. And is a liar.
I’d point out that there are other threads on FR specifically reporting that folks saw nothing like these actions at the Saturday DC rally. I’d further point out that the anti-American group A.N.S.W.E.R (supported & financed by George Soros)had scheduled a “competing” rally in DC and this type of behavior is typical of them—both directly against such folks and anything to cast doubt on the validity of patriotic folks. I’m certain that if any video does surface, the perps will be from ANSWER, not the Tea Party.
I believe Zero's belittling and condemnation of the Supreme Court during the State of the Soviet Union address was the first shot across the bow for them, and with legal challenges lining up against the wannbe tyrant's socialist healthcare “utopia”, I'm guessing they will increase in frequency and veracity in the coming months.
I think this is Dem strategy to rollout anmesty/immigration reform like the marginalize Tea party and town hall meeting anti-Obama care efforts. It’s timing is suspicious.
Get Carville to Youtube and a few 100 record companies.
Where is the evidence? No video. No audio.
I know someone who ran into an SEIU “plant” at the rally.
Even if the alleged racist incident happened (which I highly doubt), how do we know it wasn’t someone from the left using Alinsky tactics to smear the protest? There were around 50,000 people there on Saturday, and one person is going to taint the entire movement?
The woman is a complete idiot.
What a coward, she won’t allow comments.
The Democrat party is stained by the racists that control.
The black Caucus is racist by definition.
It is composed of N word (nonwhite) people
A lot of b.s There’s an element of racisim on both sides, always was and always will be morons in the world. Making an issue of it just continues the whole circus.
Ooops... wrong rally. Sorry, Cynthia. You may now return to your baseless fairy tales.
Here’s one of the FR threads with links to videos countering these claims. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2478373/posts
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