Even though we’re told we have to be scared about Tea Party violence, none has actually occurred. On the other hand, we now have yet another instance of a radical leftist becoming violent while blaming Obama’s failures on you know who:
Tabor says they were protesting a proposed amendment that would give companies money to help with rising credit card fees. He says he was videotaping the event when Govenor Spencer, of Greensboro, approached the protest.
“About that time a gentleman walks around the corner and walks into the middle of the crowd saying it’s all George W. Bush’s fault. It’s all Dick Cheney’s fault.” Tabor said.
The video shows Spencer and at least one protester arguing. Tabor says he stopped recording as the protest began to conclude and walked over to the sidewalk where his wife and 5-year-old daughter were standing.
“As I walked around the corner this gentleman pushed me. And when he pushed me the first time I turned my camera on and brought my camera up. I said please don’t push me. And when I said that he slapped my camera.” Tabor said. “He pushes me again. In the video you can see my body fall back. And I did not say anything to him, I didn’t engage him. I was going to, until he touched me wife.”
Tabor says Spencer pushed his wife and he pushed Spencer back. The video shows Spencer then punching Tabor in the face.
The story includes video. Larry O’Connor has an interview with the victim up at Big Government, where other incidents of violent, leftist thuggery have been documented.
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Another video challenging leftwing racism:
My favorite line: “I’m afraid of the President because he’s a white man. What does Keith Olbermann have to say about that?”
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Charles M. Blow, a regular columnist for the New York Times, has taken the already despicable race narrative on the Tea Parties to another level. He begins with a bit of “diversity” hunting:
I had specifically come to this rally because it was supposed to be especially diverse. And, on the stage at least, it was. The speakers included a black doctor who bashed Democrats for crying racism, a Hispanic immigrant who said that she had never received a single government entitlement and a Vietnamese immigrant who said that the Tea Party leader was God. It felt like a bizarre spoof of a 1980s Benetton ad.
The juxtaposition was striking: an abundance of diversity on the stage and a dearth of it in the crowd, with the exception of a few minorities like the young black man who carried a sign that read “Quit calling me a racist.”
…It was a farce. This Tea Party wanted to project a mainstream image of a group that is anything but. A New York Times/CBS News poll released on Wednesday found that only 1 percent of Tea Party supporters are black and only 1 percent are Hispanic. It’s almost all white.
The implication: a lack of the kind of diversity Mr. Blow deems important (because there are other kinds, which he apparently doesn’t care about) is somehow condemning. Notice he never actually explains the logic for how this matters. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Mr. Blow to similarly investigate an NAACP event, or the next Million Man March.
But that’s hardly the worst. Things really get ugly when he begins using his own racist attacks:
And even when compared to other whites, their views are extreme and marginal. For instance, white Tea Party supporters are twice as likely as white independents and eight times as likely as white Democrats to believe that Barack Obama was born in another country.
Furthermore, they were more than eight times as likely as white independents and six times as likely as white Democrats to think that the Obama administration favors blacks over whites.
Thursday night I saw a political minstrel show devised for the entertainment of those on the rim of obliviousness and for those engaged in the subterfuge of intolerance. I was not amused.
Because, you know, white views are just naturally extreme and marginal, so even by that standard the tea parties are on the fringe! What a racist. Can you imagine the New York Times running an op-ed that says “even compared to other blacks, their views are [insert negative attribute]?” The author of such a statement would be crucified.
He then doubles down with a racist attack on the black speakers, who he dubs a “minstrel show.” Apparently no black person is capable of the free thinking that might lead them to be there because they believe in the cause. Oh no. They must be getting used or duped. I wonder if Mr. Blow has ever applied the same logic to his employment at the upper-class, white New York Times. Probably not, because if he did his head might just explode.
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Obama wants our thanks, so he has mine over at Right Wing News.
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Tax Day has come and gone. Naturally, this means Tea Parties have successfully been conducted across the nation. Not that the horse needs any more beating, but the Tax Day Tea Party event I attended in DC once again blew away the left’s racism narrative (which is not stopping them from doubling down with a new smear).
If the popularity of black speakers such as Rev. C.L. Bryant wasn’t enough, take this account from Politico:
Brooks Alexander, a 23-year-old Olney, Md. hotel worker and Obama supporter who wore an Obama tee-shirt to the evening rally, said infiltrators were being disrespectful.
“They’re doing a disservice not only to themselves, but to the people who are here trying to express their views,” said Alexander, who is African American and said he traveled to the rally to verify for himself liberal accounts blasting the tea party as racist.
“All my friends told me I was crazy to come down here in an Obama shirt,” he said. “Obviously I have political disagreements [with the tea party], but I cannot lie. I cannot say that people have been anything but nice to me. They have been shaking my hand. One guy told me I had a lot of [guts] for coming down here. I will definitely walk away from this with a new understanding of the tea party.”
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Not only has AP suddenly noticed that there are blacks in the Tea Party movement, but they’ve also taken note of the racist vitriol hurled at them by the left:
They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.
“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.
“Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.
But don’t be fooled. The article was full of backhanded insults and unsubstantiated attacks on the Tea Party.
For instance:
Opponents have branded the tea party as a group of racists hiding behind economic concerns — and reports that some tea partyers were lobbing racist slurs at black congressmen during last month’s heated health care vote give them ammunition.
Who are these opponents? While they are identified as opponents, avoiding actually naming them makes it harder to recognize the people saying this as the partisan Democrat hacks that they are. And what about these “reports?” Oh, that’s right. The only proof of such slurs comes from accounts of Democratic Congressman who have every reason to lie and make themselves look like victims. Meanwhile, all available evidence suggests that they never actually happened.
We then get irrelevant non-statistics about Tea Party demographics:
Still, she’s in the minority. As a nascent grassroots movement with no registration or formal structure, there are no racial demographics available for the tea party movement; it’s believed to include only a small number of blacks and Hispanics.
“It’s believed” by whom? Oh, that’s right. Answering that hidden question would expose this particular claim for the political smear that it is.
Or here’s one that’s particularly laughable:
McGlowan believes the tea party movement has been unfairly portrayed as monolithically white, male and middle-aged, though she acknowledged blacks and Hispanics are a minority at most events.
Hey, you know where else blacks and hispanics are a minority? In the entire freaking United States. Definitive proof that the U.S. is racist!
The article then ends with the classic fake concern from a leftwinger:
Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, suggested a bit of caution.
“I’m sure the reason that (black conservatives) are involved is that from an ideological perspective, they agree,” said Shelton. “But when those kinds of things happen, it is very important to be careful of the company that you keep.”
But don’t you worry about keeping company with the party of Robert “There are white niggers, too” Byrd.
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I’m assuming he’s confused, since he’s apparently wandered off the liberal/Democratic reservation.
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But there’s actual political violence afoot.
Supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid staged a counter-protest today in Searchlight, Nevada, the Senator’s hometown. Reid supporters gathered just down the road from the launching point of the Tea Party Express tour, and when Breitbart happened upon them, he was met with threats of violence. At least one protester threw an egg at Brietbart, missing him. Eggs were also thrown at the Tea Party Express bus.
What MSNBC saw at the event
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If you oppose Obamacare, you’re being smeared right now. If you’re protesting big, reckless government, the media cannot stand you. They hate you and are spreading vile, viscous lies whenever possible to bring you down.
Their days of getting away with such slanders are over. As always, Andrew Breitbart is at the forefront of the pushback.
CommentsSaturday’s “never mind” moment will live in infamy as the Congressional Black Caucus claimed the N-word was hurled 15 times. YouTube video shows that at least two of the men in the procession were carrying video cameras and holding them above the crowd. They have not come forth with evidence to show that even one person hurled the vile racist epithet. The video also shows no head movement one way or another. Wouldn’t the N-word provoke a head turn or two? Is it really possible that in 2010, in a crowd of 30 or 40 thousand people — at the center of a once-in-a-lifetime media circus — not one person’s flipphone, Blackberry, video recorder or a network feed caught a single incident? And if not, then at least someone could have found an honest tea partier to act as an eyewitness — or the Congressional Black Caucus would have confronted the culprit(s). If that had happened, there would be an investigation to see if the perpetrator was a left-wing plant.
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It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once. Surely one of those two cameras wielded by members of his entourage will prove his point.
And surely if those cameras did not capture such abhorrence, then someone from the mainstream media — those who printed and broadcast his assertions without any reasonable questioning or investigation — must themselves surely have it on camera. Of course we already know they don’t. If they did, you’d have seen it by now.
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Democrats scramble to ram through health care takeover before facing Townhalls:
Democrats are racing the clock to pass health care reform ahead of a wave of Tea Party-driven town hall meetings planned for the spring recess — the kind of gatherings that nearly derailed the package last August.
But there’s a big difference this time around. Last summer, Democrats were encouraged to hold the town hall meetings, and they were blindsided by the backlash, which was recorded and promoted in countless YouTube clips. This time around, they have a good idea of what’s coming — and they’re lying low.
“There’s not been the same push as there was in August to encourage members to do town halls,” said Stephanie Lundberg, spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
But that isn’t stopping Tea Party groups, as well as former House Republican Leader Dick Armey’s outfit, FreedomWorks, from holding their own meetings and trying to coax lawmakers into attending.
“We’re about to ratchet it up,” said Debbie Dooley, a Tea Party Patriots organizer and FreedomWorks volunteer outside Atlanta. “You’re about to see the passion that we saw during the August recess.”
I wouldn’t count on many of the weasels having their courage to face constituents and explain their betrayal.
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