-By Warner Todd Huston
Not long ago Andrew Breitbart issued a challenge to the anti-tea party left to show proof that the "N" word was thrown at black members of Congress by Tea Party protesters in their walk to Congress just prior to their passage on Obamacare. In fact, Breitbart has offered $100,000 for video or audio proof of any racism during that incident. No one on the left has been able meet the challenge.
On the April 7, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was giving a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and in the audience was one Andrew Breitbart. During the question and answer phase of Trumka's appearance, Breitbart asked the Union Chief about the supposed racism of the Tea Party movement and asked if he, Trumka, would denoucne the violence that union thugs perpetrated against Tea Party folks at the event in Searchlight, Nevada.
In answer to Breitbart's charges of union thuggery, Trumka claimed that he was a witness to the "N" word being cast toward black members of Congress during the Democrat's solidarity walk previous to their vote on Obamacare. "I watched them spit at people, I watched them call John Lewis the n-word," he said. "I witnessed it. I saw it in person. That's real evidence."
Uh, no, that is hearsay, not evidence. And biased hearsay at that.
Here is that exchange:
There is little doubt that Trumka is simply lying here. There is no way that any Tea Party protester yelled the "N" word at any member of Congress on the day Trumka claims it happened. We know this because those members of Congress had several folks with cell phones taking video of the crowd during their walk and NO video of audio evidence of this supposed racist epithet has come forward. If the "N" word really was yelled at members of Congress that day you can be 100% sure we'd have seen the video or heard the audio seconds after it was uttered.
But despite that the Democrats had people videoing their event, not one bit of evidence suggests that the wild claims by Democrats that they were verbally attacked by racist tea partiers actually happened.
The simple fact of the matter is that without any real proof, not just the partisan and likely untrue claims of Democrats, it is impossible to say that the "N" word was yelled at Democrats that day.
So, Trumka is simply a liar. That's all there is to it.
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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Economy, Racism, Tea Party, Unions
Here is the sad truth that EVERYBODY is ignoring....
We are standing on the edge of an economic cataclysm and there is only one way out. It will involve taxes - a decade or more of serious taxation. The politicians won't tell you that but that is the way it is, folks. Unlike the last forty years, however, there is no reason why the poor and middle class should have to bear the burden of getting us out of the the hole that the uber rich dug us into.
Once upon a time there existed a class of people who were SO FILTHY RICH that they lived in a ninety percent tax bracket. In other words, they kept ten percent of their income, handing over the rest to the federal government. It wasn't as much of a sacrifice as you might think. They still had more money than they knew what to do with - they only had ninety percent less of it. That situation has not existed in this country for a long time. But it will exist again - count on it. I'll be very blunt with you: Our very economic survival depends on us "soaking the rich" if you will. The last thirty years was their party and you and I were not invited. It's time for them to pay the piper - not us. This is not class warfare, nor is it revolutionary thinking on my part. That is what is known as good old fashioned common sense.
Knowing all this as I do, it is a laugh riot for me watching these Tea Party jackasses at any given event. They have been brainwashed by the plutocracy into doing their bidding and they're doing it quite handily. And remember, contrary to what their leaders would have you believe, this was not a "grass roots" movement. It was created, promoted and, in some cases, financed by Rupert Murdich's FOX Noise. Watching them protest the "evil Liberals" and knowing that the median income of these idiots is probably around thirty-five-thousand per year - if that - is enough to send me into gales of uncontrollable laughter. I'd really miss them if they were gone. Honestly I would.
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Tom Degan
Goshen NY
Interesting reply. I'll deconstruct it in a full post soon.