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:
AP...Prove that our leader was NOT born in Kenya. Note this is YOUR own article.
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Sunday, June 27, 2004
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once-promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.
Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.
Barrack Obama
“It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could not take place if I remain in the race,” Ryan, 44, said in a statement. “What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics I refuse to play.”
Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was “truly outrageous” that the Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records.
The Republican choice will become an instant underdog in the campaign for the seat of retiring Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald, since Obama held a wide lead even before the scandal broke.
“I feel for him actually,” Obama told a Chicago TV station. “What he’s gone through over the last three days I think is something you wouldn’t wish on anybody.”
The Republican state committee must now choose a replacement for Ryan, who had won in the primaries against seven contenders. Its task is complicated by the fact that Obama holds a comfortable lead in the polls and is widely regarded as a rising Democratic star.
The chairwoman of the Illinois Republican Party, Judy Topinka, said at a news conference, after Ryan withdrew, that Republicans would probably take several weeks to settle on a new candidate.
“Obviously, this is a bad week for our party and our state,” she said.
As recently as Thursday, spokesmen for the Ryan campaign still insisted that Ryan would remain in the race. Ryan had defended himself saying, “There’s no breaking of any laws. There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere.”
—AP
YOUR own article:
Lol! The AP ...supporting the lack of logic...
If the AP is so concerned with ‘racist’. Tell them to look at the Black Caucus, the Hispaninc Caucus and the hunderds of other race based groups. When they start showing as much concern about those groups and ‘racism’ then maybe I will give a damn.
Little do they know, they just revealed their strategy for the coming session of Congress.
They are planning on passing Amnesty (Immigration REFORM, their new buzz word) within the first week of their return. They see themselves as really on a roll and that they can and will get their entire agenda passed before the coming elections.
Once the Democrats discover a method that works, they stick to it like super glue. Get ready for more frustrating Amtrak, Midnight legislation and MaObama campaign lectures. If Amerika does not figure this out soon, then they truly are brain dead and brainwashed.
We shall see.
Naw, that was the rule back when we were a free republic. We’re all socialists now, just ask Newsweek and Al Sharpton!
They see themselves as really on a roll and that they can and will get their entire agenda passed before the coming election
Does the AP do this sort of thing to be provocative or are they simply to stupid to realize the absurdity of their request?
Look at it this way - if a person was logical enough to understand you can't prove a negative, odds are they wouldn't be a liberal...
87% of AP personnel are gay.
HOORAY Andrew Breitbart! HOORAY citizen journalism!
I thought this one had disappeared down the memory hole...
Bert to AP
Prove the Black caucus is not racist
What is so tragic is, they got away with it and will continue to get away with it. Passing all these controversial measures early, as well as passing a law such as Amnesty, they not only gain millions of new Democrat voters, but they have all that time between the election to wipe all of those nasty memories the Publik has as to how they did it and what was in it.
They have full control of the MSM which will bury or eliminate any critical details that will turn the Publik against them. Our ONLY recourse will be to plug the streets of Washington and shut the place down for weeks at a time.
All in all, it seems so wrong as well as frustrating that this EVIL has taken such a powerful strangle hold on this country!
Snopes disproved it. Kenyan reference only appeared in one version of the AP story. That was in Kenya’s version. All other versions of the story printed around the work did not contain the Kenyan reference.
Snopes is a trustworthy source?
” I have been to several local Tea Party events and two in DC (7/4/10 & 9/12/10) and have seen nothing even approaching disrespectful behavior. “
Thanks for your attendance and support.
Another point the MSM is missing is that the Tea Party events have people of all races etc , but that won’t fit their agenda
And the other 13% are borderline gay.
Proof point 1: Rev Wright was not a part of the Tea Party.
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