Fox News reports that a person or persons hurled the N-word at Reps. John Lewis (D-GA) and Andre Carson (D-IN), both members of the Congressional Black Caucus. The Huffington Post reports that Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a “faggot,” as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Representative Emanuel Cleaver’s office released a statement saying that someone spat on the Congressman.
Protesting is a fundamental right of Americans. Behaving like an asshole is not. If you use the N-word you are an un-American coward not fit to be part of a protest defending our Constitutional rights. As for spitting, most people learn not to do that by the first grade.
Folks, this debate is far too important to the future of our nation to cloud it with racism and filthy behavior. People resorting to racist taunts and vile acts should either be chased away or lifted above the crowd and tossed to the police.
Freedom of speech is not a license to act like a slimeball.
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It was just reported on the news that the offenders who spat and used the N-word were affilliated with the SIEU.
These Union thugs were using bullying tactics and race baiting to make the TeaParty folks look bad.
It was also reported that there has been a run on honey and cheap feather pillows at WalMart….
Not sure what that means…
Robert…
You should have done some simple checking before jumping to conclusions and making accusations about the crowd in the Capitol on Saturday…Short vid to watch and then you need to apologize to the very respectful, peaceful but emphatic Liberty Lovers in attendance…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I&feature=player_embedded
From BIG JOURNALISM-Kyle-Ane Shiver report …Here’s the important part:
“Fox News also reported yesterday that it had contacted Capitol police to find out whether the incident had been reported or was being investigated. Capitol police confirmed that it was neither reported, nor was it being investigated. These are pertinent facts, which the public has a right to know. Yet, the Washington Post relied only upon the claims made by these black lawmakers and Barney Frank to frame the allegations as established fact.”
“As someone who has been to Tea Parties and ridden the Tea Party Express with both black and white entertainers and speakers, I find these reports to be incredible. However, they do fit both the Democratic Party and the MSM’s standard attempts to equate Tea Party patriots with racism and narrow-minded bigotry of all kinds.”
“Unless those racial and “homophobic” slurs were corroborated by real witnesses, they remain nothing but allegations. However, they are precisely the kind of allegations that fit the MSM’s ideological framework. Just as the Duke rape accuser’s charges fit that framework and were reported as absolute fact for months on end. Just as the Tawana Brawley hoax, ring-led by Al Sharpton, fit that framework and were reported as fact”.
“This list is actually becoming too long for sentient citizens not to connect the dots on the MSM’s rush to judgment and abandoning all pretense to journalistic integrity – just to create news that fits their leftist ideology.”
“Shame on the Washington Post for not reporting honestly today. Those racial slur allegations, which they published as “irrefutable,” are nothing of the sort. They are just allegations. Hearsay. Not back up by any factual evidence whatsoever.”
“Are some black and gay lawmakers above lying about such a thing?
I don’t think so.”