The Democrats' Fake Hate Crime

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The Democrats' Fake Hate Crime [Mark Steyn]

Jonah mentioned this the other day in his column, but the tireless Andrew Breitbart returns to the theme, to devastating effect.

On March 20th, something truly extraordinary happened. On the eve of the health care vote, a group of black Democrat Congressmen (eschewing the private tunnels they usually use to cross from their offices to the Capitol) chose to walk en masse through a crowd of protesters, confident that the knuckledragging Tea Party goons they and their media pals have reviled for a year now would respond with racial epithets.

And then, when the crowd didn't, the black Congressmen made it up anyway. Representative Andre Carson (Democrat, Indiana) insisted he heard the N-word 15 times. He's either suffering from the same condition as that Guam-flipper from Georgia, or he's a liar. At a scene packed not only with crews from the Dem poodle media but with a gazillion cellphone cameras, not one single N-word has been caught on audio. (By contrast, see my post yesterday for how easy it is to get it on tape when real epithets are flying.)

I disagree with John Lewis (Democrat, Georgia) politically but I have always respected him as a genuine civil rights warrior. And I feel slightly queasy at the thought that he would dishonor both the movement and his own part in it for the cheapest of partisan points - in the same way I would be disgusted by a Holocaust survivor painting a swastika on his own door and blaming it on his next-door neighbor over a boundary dispute.

But that's what the Democratic Party has been reduced to - faking hate crimes as pathetically as any lonely, mentally ill college student. Congressmen Carson, Lewis, Cleaver and the rest have turned themselves into the Congressional equivalent of the Duke University stripper. Except that they're not some penniless loser but a group of important, influential lifetime legislators enjoying all the privileges and perquisites of power, and in all probability acting at the behest of the Democrat leadership.

Isn't that what societies with functioning media used to call "a story"?

Apparently not. As they did at Duke, the brain-dead press went along with it - and so, predictably enough, did much of the Republican leadership.

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[alienlovechild 75]

I disagree with John Lewis (Democrat, Georgia) politically but I have always respected him as a genuine civil rights warrior. And I feel slightly queasy at the thought that he would dishonor both the movement and his own part in it for the cheapest of partisan points - in the same way I would be disgusted by a Holocaust survivor painting a swastika on his own door and blaming it on his next-door neighbor over a boundary dispute.

But that's what the Democratic Party has been reduced to - faking hate crimes as pathetically as any lonely, mentally ill college student. Congressmen Carson, Lewis, Cleaver and the rest have turned themselves into the Congressional equivalent of the Duke University stripper. Except that they're not some penniless loser but a group of important, influential lifetime legislators enjoying all the privileges and perquisites of power, and in all probability acting at the behest of the Democrat leadership.

Still waiting on a response from the Black Congressional Caucas on this. Apparently they don't care about their collective image as their constituents could care less as well.

[Danno 1,228]

I heard reference to these "slurs" on countless shows, mentioned as a literal -matter of FACT.

Has anyone heard of any of these news agencies retracting or backing away from what they must know now is a falsehood... not to mention a slander against the people at the Capital that day.

[Ken y Leidys 20]

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Racist democrats suck.

[Niels Bohr 72]

One time I heard from the right, the President isn't spending enough time in office on finding jobs. And, yet we have those that insist he answer a question that does no good.

Edited April 6, 2010 by Niels Bohr

[luckytxn 2,265]

It is ok for the Socialists to do this but no one else is allowed.

[scandal 951]

Racists democrats suck.

Fixxored.

It is ok for the Socialists to do this but no one else is allowed.

You are allowed. Go right ahead.

[mawilson 2,133]

Racist democrats suck.

Or are sucked. That's why they call them Congressional Black Cocks.

[Peikko 1,575]

Let's tar all Democrats with the same brush, I mean, when a Democrat does something wrong, it's on behalf of all Democrats, but when a Republican does something wrong, they aren't actually really Republicans. Talk about twaddle. None of this is actually producing any sort of 'remedy' for the so called problem of the new health care bill. Perhaps when someone starts talking about that, I might start to listen.

[alienlovechild 75]

Let's tar all Democrats with the same brush, I mean, when a Democrat does something wrong, it's on behalf of all Democrats, but when a Republican does something wrong, they aren't actually really Republicans. Talk about twaddle. None of this is actually producing any sort of 'remedy' for the so called problem of the new health care bill. Perhaps when someone starts talking about that, I might start to listen.

When a group like the BCC smears the opposition without a shred of proof I'd think you'd at least want the truth to come out. That racist ####### charge had nothing to do with the relative merits of the healthcare legislation and I'll be even less likely to believe the BCC the next time around with they play the race card.

[luckytxn 2,265]

When a group like the BCC smears the opposition without a shred of proof I'd think you'd at least want the truth to come out. That racist ####### charge had nothing to do with the relative merits of the healthcare legislation and I'll be even less likely to believe the BCC the next time around with they play the race card.

Without that race card they would not be able to portray themselves as victims. They would have to be treated like everyone else.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

When a group like the BCC smears the opposition without a shred of proof I'd think you'd at least want the truth to come out. That racist ####### charge had nothing to do with the relative merits of the healthcare legislation and I'll be even less likely to believe the BCC the next time around with they play the race card.

Either you believe that you can prove a negative, or you believe that simply denying the allegations in question proves the allegation false because you choose too, out of deference to the Tea Party folks. The reality may lay somewhere in between. Or does the ability to prove a negative exist only when it supports your preconceived notions?

There is not a shred of evidence to prove the claims false either, so time to find a new gripe.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Either you believe that you can prove a negative, or you believe that simply denying the allegations in question proves the allegation false because you choose too, out of deference to the Tea Party folks. The reality may lay somewhere in between. Or does the ability to prove a negative exist only when it supports your preconceived notions?

There is not a shred of evidence to prove the claims false either, so time to find a new gripe.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Either you believe that you can prove a negative, or you believe that simply denying the allegations in question proves the allegation false because you choose too, out of deference to the Tea Party folks. The reality may lay somewhere in between. Or does the ability to prove a negative exist only when it supports your preconceived notions?

There is not a shred of evidence to prove the claims false either, so time to find a new gripe.

There were actually many videos that showed the route as they marched through and not one racial slur was uttered. If there had been the video would be viral right now. It was a false accusation by a man that has cried wolf too many times.