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AP to Breitbart: Prove Tea Partiers AREN’T Racist
http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/03/28/ap-to-breitbart-prove-tea-partiers-arent-racist/ ^

Posted on 03/29/2010 5:24:47 AM PDT by chessplayer

This is what it has come to. In this “news” column from the AP on the Tea Party rally in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev., yesterday, the AP puts the burden of proof on Andrew Breitbart to prove that no one yelled the N-word at the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington last Sunday:


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To: chessplayer
AP's money quote:

Conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart disputed accounts that tea party activists in Washington shouted racial epithets at black members of Congress amid the health care debate, although he didn't provide any evidence.

21 posted on 03/29/2010 5:36:17 AM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: chessplayer

AP, prove to me that you are not an agitprop arm of the DNC!..............


22 posted on 03/29/2010 5:36:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: chessplayer

Dear AP,

Innocent until proven guilty.

Respectfully,
Tea Party Patriot


23 posted on 03/29/2010 5:37:05 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: pyx

Somebody always thinks they have an answer!

24 posted on 03/29/2010 5:37:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: chessplayer

Uh, the fact that there is no evidence?

With this charge, the AP admits as much.


25 posted on 03/29/2010 5:38:16 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Jagdgewehr

yes


26 posted on 03/29/2010 5:39:47 AM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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To: chessplayer

Obama,the black congressional caucus and the media have set back race relations 50 years.

The more the push the racism issue at anyone who disagrees with their policies, the uglier the situation will become.


27 posted on 03/29/2010 5:40:35 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: chessplayer

BB should have said right back, well why dont you prove that the AP isn’t racist. Kind of a childish statement AP made.


28 posted on 03/29/2010 5:40:52 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: chessplayer

Working from dnc playbook.


29 posted on 03/29/2010 5:41:23 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Reaganesque

“Conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart disputed accounts that tea party activists in Washington shouted racial epithets at black members of Congress amid the health care debate, although he didn’t provide any evidence.”

Are they really this idiotic or do they just assume that their readers are?


30 posted on 03/29/2010 5:41:43 AM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: chessplayer

Didn’t this tactic start with Bush and the “Prove to us that you were at National Guard training on the weekend of such and such?” Damn I hate these people.


31 posted on 03/29/2010 5:44:07 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: ElayneJ

Both, I imagine.


32 posted on 03/29/2010 5:44:16 AM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: chessplayer

How about AP demand that Democrats prove they are’nt racist? Methinks support for racial quotas doesn’t argue much in their favor.


33 posted on 03/29/2010 5:45:00 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: chessplayer
How silly is this? Maybe not so silly. Watch the media change the conversation from an abominable health care bill to tea partiers defending themselves. Very effective.
34 posted on 03/29/2010 5:46:25 AM PDT by Neverforget01 (The problem is the doing, not the talking....Gov Haley Barbour)
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To: ElayneJ

Even if racial slurs were shouted at Black members of congress, how can they prove they were shouted by conservative tea party members. It’s a well-known tactic of Chicago politics going back to Hizzoner Richard M. Daley’s time to put plants in the crowd to stir up trouble. The slurs, if there were any, could easily have been manufactured by liberals to attempt to discredit the tea-partiers!


35 posted on 03/29/2010 5:46:40 AM PDT by Froggie
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To: maddog55

Classic.

How about the VIDEO THAT WE HAVE ALL SEEN.

Play that for them as it IS evidence that no N*word was used. This is a new media event. Normally lies like this make the news and everyone believes them. Now... there’s video. Cell phones and mini-cams. So we have the video showing the claims are b.s. and that is proof, right?


36 posted on 03/29/2010 5:47:21 AM PDT by TigerBait
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To: chessplayer

ME to the AP ................... THE BURDEN OF PROOF HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE ACCUSER !!!


37 posted on 03/29/2010 5:50:05 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: chessplayer

The AP would have to go a long way to prove to me they are not pro-communist anti-American traitors.


38 posted on 03/29/2010 5:50:49 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: steelyourfaith

Maybe they are afraid of being caught and exposed?

Anyone shouting out racial crap at a rally should be surrounded, encouraged to turn over a photo ID. Take a picture of it and then have them escorted from the premises.


39 posted on 03/29/2010 5:53:46 AM PDT by listenhillary (Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
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To: TigerBait

oblah blah, through his minions in the media, appears to be trying to start a race war. I was ten feet away from the supposed incident in D.C. No spitting observed. No name calling.

Lot of “Kill the Bill” chants and booing....but that’s it.

I told my friends after the election, “Any criticism of this POTUS will be deemed racist.” They all disagreed with me. Sadly, I have been proven correct.


40 posted on 03/29/2010 5:54:19 AM PDT by Josa
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