Butt hurt Republicans must have ran out of Preparation H. What fucking idiots. CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats March 20, 2010 Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats Posted: March 20th, 2010 08:19 PM ET From CNN Congressional Producers Ted Barrett, Evan Glass and Lesa Jansen Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis was the target if racial slurs on Saturday. Washington (CNN) - Civil rights icon and veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, said anti-health care bill protesters Saturday repeatedly yelled the "N" word at him as he left a heath care meeting and walked to the Capitol. "I haven't seen heard anything like this in more than 40 years, maybe 45." Lewis said. "Since the march from Selma to Montgomery really." "Yeah, but it's okay," Lewis added. "I've faced this before. So, it reminded me of the 60's. There's a lot of downright hate and anger and people are just being downright mean." The incident was confirmed by Rep. Andre Carson, D-Indiana, who was walking with Lewis at the time. Protesters were yelling, "'kill the bill, kill the bill' and the 'N' word several times," Carson said. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, released a statement late Saturday saying he too was called the "N" word as he walked to the Capitol for a vote and that he was spat on by one protestor who was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police. Cleaver declined to press charges against the man, the statement said. Protesters also hurled anti-gay comments at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, who is openly gay, as he left the same health care meeting that Lewis attended in a House office building. A CNN producer overheard the word "faggot" yelled at Frank several times in the lobby of the Longworth building. Frank said he heard someone yell "homo" at him. "I'm disappointed," Frank said. "There's an unwillingness to be civil." Frank, who said he rarely hears such slurs anymore, said the health care issue has become "the proxy for a lot of other sentiments. A lot of which are perfectly reasonable but some of which are kind of ugly." Filed under: Barney Frank • Health care • John Lewis
I knew I was going to have to go around correcting the propaganda MSM's smear against American citizens expressing their freedoms. How convenient for such a story to be splashed all over the media, the day before the vote on Obamacare! First let me ask you something, does it not bother you that the MSM is constantly trying to discredit these people? When was the last time you saw the media actively trying to destroy a protest movement? It only started when they turned on Obama and Democrats. Now the tea parties get the same treatment as ALL of Obama's critics. -Charges of racism -Extremism -Terrorism -Stupidity Ect.... Its always the same and one would HOPE that you people would catch on at some point. Now, on to the facts. This story claims it was "tea party protesters" shouting, but that isn't bore out by the facts. Dems say protesters used N-word - Patrick O'Connor and James Hohmann - POLITICO.com So, it was one guy and he was shouted down by everyone else. For all we know this guy was sent there by someone in the media! Yet, this story is still making its rounds all over the internet, as "Tea part protesters shout racial slurs". How does it feel to be a political pawn? The whole story is laced with references to civil rights in order to trigger certain responses from the reader! You've been tricked in to spreading propaganda in an attempt to smear American citizens. Congratulations.
Dronetek... did you read the entire article that you posted a link to? Or just the first paragraph? It was essentially the same article the OP posted.
Nope, the article he posted tries to imply it was lots of people shouting this, when it was only one guy. At one point in the CNN article it says: So, protesters WERE yelling "kill the bill". One guy shouted racial slurs and was shouted down by the rest. That part is left out by CNN and the others. They want to give the impression it was everyone, when it clearly wasn't. Yelling "kill the bill" is not racist. Come on folks, stop falling for this dumb shit. Its depressing. Its so obviously an attempt to shame people in to supporting Obamacare. When have you ever seen such a focus on smearing people involved in a protest?
uh... no. It was one guy who yelled a slur at Barney Frank. The article you posted makes it clear that there were other people yelling other racial slurs at Lewis. Nowhere does the CNN article imply that it was everyone in the audience yelling those slurs. The fact is that it happened, and just because some people tried to stop it, that doesn't excuse the people who acted in such a disgusting way. Stop being an apologist for these idiots.
No, it doesn't. It makes clear that people were yelling "kill the bill". The recording has ONE GUY yelling and being shouted down. Why does one story say one guy and the more left leaning outlets leave that part out? Yes it does, in the part I quoted! Tell me the last protest that you remember the media reporting on "ugliness"? Stop being an emotional pawn for the MSM and think this stuff through with your brain. Why did this deserve to be the front page story leading Sunday morning news? Why don't we ever see stories on the actions of one or two protesters at other protests? Are they all just perfect? Obama went to a racist church for 20 years, but that doesn't matter. Some random guy at a protests yells "******" and the media world stops.
It's not fair then, to attack and call everyone a group of idiots when only a few people said things. FOXNews.com - Tea Party Leader, GOP Condemn Racial Slurs Hurled at Black Lawmakers Edit: "I haven't seen heard anything like this in more than 40 years, maybe 45." Lewis said. "Since the march from Selma to Montgomery really." That blows my mind that he thinks he can say something like that. It unsettles me to see the race card being placed so hard.
The person that this happened to describes it as follows: "I haven't seen heard anything like this in more than 40 years, maybe 45." Lewis said. "Since the march from Selma to Montgomery really." One person, my ass. Who's a tool of the media? You choose to believe one article vs. the actual victim. Oh but wait, the victim was a democrat, so he must be lying and making shit up.
For all we know The Daily Kos sent a guy in to yell this stuff, just for this story. Isn't a bit odd tat it comes out the day before the vote? People need to stop lapping this stuff up so readily. Oh yes, you gotta love the reference to the civil rights movement. The icing on the propaganda cake. Man, you eat this stuff up the way they want you to. Where is your proof? One article says one guy, than some Democrats evokes the civil rights movement and you're sold. Amazing how effective it is. I'm using my brain and not dismissing an entire moment, because some left wing lap dogs in the MSM continue with their never ending smear of Obama's critics. Yeah, pretty much. The democrats and the media have been actively trying to discredit these protesters as racist, extremists, and even terrorists for the last year. How convenient that they get this "story" the night before the vote.
Done before, done again. I don't trust any media reports, CNN, FOX or ABC anymore. NONE. I wish I could unplug all the networks and return credibility/sanity to political reporting.
Its all so predictable. People like me were predicting these sort of tactics before Obama was even elected.
Dronetek, are you capable of making any argument other then "blame the media" and "blame the democrats"? Protesters make racial slurs, so clearly it's the liberal media at work.
He merely said it was a possibility. I agree with him on that. But truly, there are very clear statements that the entire group of protestors were NOT hatemongers as otherwise made out to be. They blamed one, maybe a few people using slurs/spitting while the rest are chanting "kill the bill." Ignorance breeds hate here in that the ignorant(liberal media) creates hate to generate hate. Sorry, I think that makes sense butt I'm really baked.
I've been tricked into spreading propaganda? Give me a break. Give that chair your sitting in another good spin you dizzy bitch, cause that last spin didn't work. I posted this article because a felt it was worthy of discussion. You want us to simply ignore this? That this is somehow a liberal media smear campaign? Try backing that up with factual evidence first, but of course we all know you cannot. You trying to silence the matter and brush the dirt underneath the rug is classic neo-con nazi tactics. Congratulations.
What facts are you looking for? What "facts" did you get from this article? No, I'm trying to get to the actual truth. Not the left wing smear designed to guilt people in to support of this bill. Why are you ignoring the article that said it was one guy and he was shouted down? Who is the Nazi here? You're the one trying to help silence dissent.
From your own quote from your own article: Savvy? The part where CNN fucked up was with Bahney Fwank, where only one dude shouted a homo-slur, which was suppressed by the others. I'm sure there was lots and lots of bigotry there.
Based on what? Turns out the whole thing is bullshit. I was right. Video appears to dispute lawmaker's claim of protesters' racial slurs - Water Cooler - Washington Times Here is video, no racial slurs: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I]YouTube - Congressional Black Caucus 3 20 2010[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPoJGNhWB-s]YouTube - Tea Party protesters mob Reps Lewis, Carson, Cummings[/ame]
More smears against dissent... The media really does do everything to make you believe that anybody who dissents is some violent, racist, redneck, fundamentalist idiot. Or, if the Republicans are in power, its those crazy, young, violent and unpredictable anarchists that we have to worry about. Even if somebody did yell "******!", what do we conclude from this? That some people are racist? Uh, yeah, I already knew that. Your whole opinion of libertarianism is heavily skewed by what you are fed by the media. It appears that every effort is made to interview the most stupid members of the Tea Party, neo-cons (not libertarians, who used to be the Republican party) are given positions that influence public opinion on television and radio, Christianity has become hopelessly intertwined with government and has resulted in a social policy antithetical to libertarianism, etc. This is how I would rank policy in terms of importance - economic, foreign, social. The Democratic party, in theory, supports a non-interventionist foreign policy and a libertarian social policy, but is fatally flawed in their theory of economic policy. The Republican party's theory is the converse. Of course, none of this applies in practice and if we look at reality both parties merge into the same, being supportive of the same elite favoring, liberty eroding policy.
please don't make this into some conspiracy theory,what was said was said,don't try to defend them with some crazy story...your starting to sound like gleen beck