Posted on 04/14/2010 1:29:20 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
It may be the most celebrated missing recording since Watergate: the nonexistent or unaccounted-for video of the tea-party protesters at the Capitol who three black congressmen claim yelled racial slurs at them on March 20, the eve of ObamaCare's enactment....
First, there turns out to have been at least one report of a corroborating witness to the alleged slurs. Washington notes that in its March 23 edition, the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News published this interview with Heath Shuler, the local congressman, a Democrat who voted against ObamaCare:
Shuler was walking with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an African-American, toward the Capitol building when the crowd starting yelling racial epithets at Cleaver, who was a civil rights activist in the 1970s. They even spat at him.
"It was the most horrible display of protesting I have ever seen in my life," Shuler said....
But when we phoned Shuler's office this afternoon, press secretary Julie Fishman told us the local reporter misunderstood. According to Fishman, Shuler's comments to the Times-News referred to the general tenor of the protests, not to the black congressmen's specific allegations.
Fishman said that Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the "N-word."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
And these people run our government...
Golly gee, Gomer, my faith in the veracity of the MSM has just been shattered...
These black congressmen know the implicaitons of such charges and they are not speaking publicly to tell the world it didn’t happen. That in itself is as bad as had the charges been true. These men need to go public and say they did or did not hear these words.
“It was the most horrible display of protesting I have ever seen in my life,” Shuler said....
I have to laugh. Really.
bfltr
The first report from the MSM that was posted here said the TEA Party people who were yelling at them were on a “GRASSY KNOLL”! Now, when was the last time you heard that phrase? There’s only one “Grassy Knoll” I can think of.
I have to laugh. Really.
Heath--when it's fourth and long, you punt. Don't go for it.
With all liberals, unless they have it on video, it’s probably a lie.
ESPN rated him the 4th biggest NFL Draft bust of all time AND the 17th biggest ‘sports flop’ of the past 25 years..................
Back in the old days we would have had those peasants horse whipped for standing up and looking members of the peerage in the eyes.
I suspect he walked into the tunnel at RFK to far, far worse...
Pelosi will “deem” the “N” word said. This will give cover to the press to go on reporting it as fact. Problem solved.
Dem congressman: ‘I follow Twitter for the Tea Party and just show up to f*** with them’...
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who is known for his verbal harangues, made several cracks at the expense of the Tea Party movement and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.
In a Tuesday profile in the New York Observer, the New York City congressman is found in a bar in the city’s Lower East Side. He took the microphone from the DJ booth and said:
“Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing ‘Kumbaya’ is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose.
[...]
“I follow Twitter for the Tea Party and just show up to f*** with them.
“No, I don’t do that. I just sit at my desk and they send me talcum powder every couple of weeks.”
Dem congressman: ‘I follow Twitter for the Tea Party and just show up to f*** with them’...
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y
The congressman recently made another foul-mouthed crack about one of his Senate colleagues. At the height of the healthcare debate, during which Weiner attracted much media attention, he joked on the “Daily Show” that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is a “d**k.”
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