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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:02 AM
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Breitbart, you dim ass, be a man (if you can be) and donate your $100,000 to UNCF NOW
Edited on Tue Apr-13-10 11:04 AM by BurtWorm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_n_word_feud


By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Jesse Washington, Ap National Writer – Tue Apr 13, 6:23 am ET

Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying.

What does the video show? Not much. Indeed, new interviews show that a much-viewed YouTube recording cited as evidence by conservatives was actually shot well after the time in question.

It was March 20, near the end of the bitter health care debate, when Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver say that some demonstrators, many of them tea party activists, yelled the "N-word" as the congressmen walked from House office buildings to the Capitol.

Stung by the charges of racism, conservatives and tea party activists insist it never happened. And one of them is offering big money if anyone can prove it did.

With so many media and citizen cameras at the demonstration, any epithets would have been caught on tape, says Andrew Breitbart. He's the web entrepreneur who released the video of ACORN workers counseling actors posing as a pimp and prostitute, and has pledged $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone provides proof of the epithets.

"It didn't happen," said Breitbart, who wasn't there. "This is 2010. Even a racist is media-savvy enough not to yell the N-word." <And he knows whereof he speaks!>

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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:07 AM
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1. Breitbart's defense is that they were too media-savvy to say the word

His defense basically confirms that they wanted to say the word but didn't.


Even though he wasn't there and has no idea whether it was said or not I find his defense actually more damning than if he said, "sure one idiot said it, so what".

He is saying that he knows that in the crowd there are many that want to say it but in the heat of the moment their media savvy reflexes helped them hold their tongue.

Basically he is confirming that there are racists there but that they just know not to say anything where they might be filmed.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:10 AM
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2. Excellent observations.
Of course, a simpleton like Breitbart is an easy read.

(By the way, is he a trust-funder? How else would a dolt like him have $100,000 to give to anybody?)
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:31 AM
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3. Any excuse in a storm....
"...Breitbart asked why the epithet was not captured by the black lawmakers' cameras, and why nobody reacted as if they had heard the slur. He also questioned whether the epithets could have been shouted by liberals planted in the crowd..." (emphasis added)

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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:38 AM
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4. No one shouted epithets. And if they did, it was liberals.
What grade is this moron in?
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