"PrintEmailShare:Posted on June 30, 2010 by Scott Johnson
Breitbart’s big $100k
Andrew Breitbart is the Internet media entrepreneur and proprietor of Big Government, Big Hollywood, and Big Journalism. Breitbart and his team doggedly pursued the story behind the allegations of Reps. Andre Carson, John Lewis. Emanuel Cleaver and James Clyburn that Tea Party protesters abused black congressmen with racial epithets while demonstrating against Obamacare on Capitol Hill on March 20. The story was reported as fact by news organizations including Fox News and McClatchy News, but Breitbart called baloney and exposed it as a concoction of the congressmen who peddled it.
One can say this with something approaching metaphysical certainty because of the utter lack of evidence supporting it under circumstances where there would have been such evidence had it happened as alleged. The key to the case was Breitbart’s offer of a $100,000 reward to anyone producing video of the epithets being shouted. There were no takers because it didn’t happen.
One can reasonably conclude that the congressmen’s story was a fabrication intended to defame the Tea Party movement and distract attention from the resistance to Obamacare. Not a single video corroborated it although many videos were shot that day, and despite Breitbart’s offer of a $100,000 reward to anyone producing a video that corroborated it. No independent journalist or other eyewitness stepped forward to vouch for the congressmen’s story.
Nmysys wrote: Since all of what you posted was Alleged, why not wait until it is proven. Oh, never mind, you are a journalist and this is how NEWS is created by the Estate.
The spitting incident.
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Wayne, its a far stretch, you had a guy with his hands cupped being used as a megaphone, and a police officer walking right along side of Cleaver, I didn't see any on purpose spitting, didn't see that at all. If that was the case the officer would have arrested the man for assault on the spot. I think Cleaver played it up for the camera, as the camera was just in front of him. Other police have seen this clip, and none of them found any evidence what cleaver is claiming...JMTCW
Nmysys wrote: Since all of what you posted was Alleged, why not wait until it is proven. Oh, never mind, you are a journalist and this is how NEWS is created by the Estate.
The spitting incident.
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I fail to see a spitting incident. I see a guy yelling with cupped hands at a congressman. So maybe a little spittle flew from the citizen's mouth. Sometimes it happens when yelling, but to call it a spitting incident is a bit disingenuous. When the congressman comes back to point out the guy who allegedly spat upon him, he fails to identify the guy who is still standing there in the same place. I don't see the guy being placed under arest for assult.
the "spitting incident" is nothing but a load of crap.
Of course you'd cup your hands so no one would see you spitting... You can clearly see the Congressman's immediate reaction. But, if you want to defend the guy that's your prerogative.
I've always been amused by protesters like this. Do they really think yelling at someone going in to vote is going to cause them to change their mind? Ditto: for people waving signs on the street corner.
President Obama Cut Your Taxes
The Stimulus is Working
First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt...
...Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
Medicare is a Government Program
Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
Barack Obama was Born in the United States
70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats
