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Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« on: April 17, 2010, 06:35:34 AM »
On the heels of a story a couple of days ago which used Congressman Heath Shuler as a source about how racial slurs were probably hurled at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on March 20, the Associated Press has been forced to backtrack.  Here is how AP writer Jesse Washington used what Heath Shuler supposedly heard to promote the idea of a Tea Party chock full of racists:

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    A fourth Democrat, Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Henderson (N.C.) Times-News that he heard the slurs.

Unfortunately for Mr. Washington's premise, this little fiction has now been undone by Shuler himself. Here is the AP correction:

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    Rep. Heath Shuler is denying a report that he heard racial slurs yelled from a crowd of angry health care protesters outside the U.S. Capitol.

    On March 20, black Democratic congressmen John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver said they heard the N-word as they walked to the Capitol to vote on health care. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is gay, said he was called an anti-homosexual slur.

    On March 23, the Hendersonville (N.C.) News-Times published an interview with Shuler, D-N.C. The story said Shuler was walking with Cleaver and heard racial epithets. The Associated Press, after Shuler's office did not return phone calls or e-mails, quoted the News-Times report Wednesday in a story on the controversy over whether racial slurs had been shouted.

And who did the initial investigation to find out what Heath Shuler actually heard? The AP? Nope. It was James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal. The AP was merely playing catchup on its own story. Here is what Taranto reported on his investigation:

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    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. Jesse Washington, who covers the race beat for the Associated Press, tries to get to the bottom of things. Although he falls well short of establishing the truth or falsehood of the allegation, he comes up with some interesting findings along the way.

    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.

    ...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."


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/04/15/ap-admits-rep-heath-shuler-did-not-hear-tea-party-racial-slurs-after-w#ixzz0lM8WBma3

These idiots NEED racism. They crave racism. It is the source of their power and without it they would have to get real jobs.
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2010, 07:43:26 AM »
Think Slobbermann, Madcow or any of the other douchenozzles on PMS-NBC will report this?  Of course not!
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 10:43:02 PM »
Liberals don't debate. They can't debate. So, they resort to name calling and distorting the truth. When the chips are down (which they are, for them) and they start losing ground, they pull out their go-to words like racist, Nazi or fascist.

I saw this all coming, Back in '08 when they threw Hillary under the bus, I said, "It's a tactical decision [to nominate Obama]. They know that when their unpopular and crazy agenda starts getting legitimately criticized they will be able to label dissenters racist. He's the perfect Liberal-bad-policy human shield." I thought I was being cynical since, after all, Obama ran a smart albeit dishonest and self-aggrandizing campaign. But look -- that's exactly what they're doing! The first sign of anyone daring not to bow down and worship, they use the R word. It's disgusting, intellectually weak and dishonest -- and completely predictable.

Speaking of the media liars, Here's a funny video about this subject. You gotta check it out. [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_1e1ypN1I[/youtube]
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2010, 04:28:08 AM »
Nice find MSB.
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2010, 12:57:55 PM »
The left is gonna keep this up until next to nobody answers the wolf alarm anymore.  More and more people like me just tune you out the second you pronounce the r in racist.   :yawn:  
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2010, 07:43:42 PM »
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2010, 07:43:58 PM »
Quote from: Red October on April 23, 2010, 12:57:55 PM
The left is gonna keep this up until next to nobody answers the wolf alarm anymore.  More and more people like me just tune you out the second you pronounce the r in racist.   :yawn:  

Racist is such a overused word. It shows the left's insecurity. They are the racist and bigot.
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2010, 06:52:59 PM »
They don't know what else to pull out so race is a easy out for them
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Re: Tea Party Racism? Still No Credible Evidence
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2010, 05:29:59 PM »
They got their wish we spend all our time defending ourselves and they do not have to try to defend Obama.
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