The Race Card Canard

The Washington Times ^ | March 23, 2010 | Editorial

[Abakumov]

The most despicable smear to come out of weekend rallies in Washington were unsubstantiated charges that Obamacare protesters shouted racial slurs at black members of Congress walking from the Cannon House Office Building to the Capitol. No evidence backs this up.

This story was first peddled by Rep. Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, who seemed "almost giddy" telling the tale to the press, according to a Washington Times reporter who was there. Many news organizations reported these charges uncritically even though the people making the claims were the primary political beneficiaries of the tales.

No such epithets can be heard on video posted by Kerry Picket on The Washington Times Water Cooler Blog, which shows the representatives in question during their walk....

[Starchoice]

The term "racism" was invented by communists. Leon Trotsky was one of the first to use it. When Whites engage in favoritism toward other Whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.

[mimaw]

Of course the POS O’Reilly takes his word over the fact that no arrests were made and n othing on tape.

[timeflies]

I love that song. My other favorite is “In a Yugo”. I think it was an Elvis song, “In the Ghetto”.

[theDentist]

Remember, in the view of the Press, it is not up to the members of Congress to provide proof they were insulted, it’s up to the crowd to prove they weren’t.

[Mr. Mojo]

BOR just said that the “right wing” is waaaay too worked up over HusseinCare’s passage.

[BIGLOOK]

"Sticks and Stones can break my Bones but Words will.....make a major MSM news story which we'll all talk about for a week, even if it didn't happen!"

[junta]

The only “racism” that exists is that to bully whites.

[NonValueAdded]

“Go balloons race cards, go race cards! Go race cards! I don't see anything happening. Go race cards! Go race cards! Go race cards! Standby confetti. Keep coming, race cards. More race cards. Bring it- race cards, race cards, race cards! We want race cards, tons of them. Bring them down. Let them all come. No confetti. No confetti yet.

“No confetti. All right, go race cards, go race cards. We need more race cards. All race cards! All race cards! Keep going! Come on, guys, lets move it. Jesus! We need more race cards. I want all race cards to go, goddammit. Go confetti. Go confetti. More confetti. I want more race cards. What's happening to the race cards? We need more race cards.

“We need all of them coming down. Go race cards- race cards? What's happening race cards? There's not enough coming down! All race cards, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the f*** are you guys doing up there? We want more race cards coming down, more race cards. More race cards. More race cards”

[RightOnline]

Well.....he is. He crows about it.

[Voter62vb]

Exactly and well written.

[popdonnelly]

Carson is in the House of Representatives because his late grandmother used to occupy the seat. He also called tea party folks “rent-a-protesters”.

[MNDude]

Maybe we should demand reparations from the welfare recipients and their descendants to ours

[bergmeid]

Is that not a true statement though?

[TheThinker]

Democrats are the ultimate race mongers. They whip up racist impulses among their constituents against their enemies and then claim racism when there’s any amount racial tension that results.

[CPT Clay]

Never happened

[Tzimisce]

When you crackers going to stop using racial slurs?

/sarc

[caww]

first peddled by Rep. Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, who seemed “almost giddy” telling the tale to the press, according to a Washington Times ......

Ok so...Carson and the Washington Times are going to hear from me!!!!

[reasonisfaith]

These democrats are themselves the advocates of racism, racism and hatred of all kinds.

Alinsky coached the Klan to show up at Republican functions, to perpetrate false smears. This is what Carson, Cleaver and the rest are doing. They advance racism and racist groups by fueling the groups and sparking their hatred.

People like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are advocates for the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis.

[TN4Liberty]

The Times is reporting that it appears to be a lie. Read the paragraph and article carefully before writing a letter of complaint.

[A_Former_Democrat]

He was “almost giddy” like the kid that can’t keep a straight face while lying his little butt off