When Will Al Sharpton Collect the $10,000 Breitbart Racial Invective Video Prize?

NewsBusters ^ | March 30, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

There is $10,000 just waiting to be picked up by Al Sharpton. That is the prize money that Andrew Breitbart has offered to anyone who can reveal a video of Tea Party protestors in Washington, D.C. on March 20 who supposedly screamed the N-word at Congressman John Lewis. This "incident" first came to light when David Kerly breathlessly reported on it for ABC's World News Tonight:

...In fact, Cleaver, Emanuel Cleaver was together with John Lewis – they were walking over to the Capitol when somebody spit on Congressman Cleaver and yelled the ‘N’ word at Congressman Lewis. Cleaver was taken to police headquarters. He did ID the man, but he is not going to press charges. He’s not speaking about it. Lewis is not going to speak about it...

Yes, Kerly reported the racial invective as an absolute fact. Only one small problem. Despite the fact that many cameras were recording this scene, not one video has yet been produced proving this despite the fact that Andrew Breitbart has now offered a $10,000 cash incentive to do so:

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.

[Son House]

O’Reilly should be apologizing to his audience for having him on, and will lose credibility if Al is on the Factor again without at least an apology for lying to his audience

[Anti-Bubba182]

No, that won't happen. Sharpton will be on again on O'Reilly and other FoxNews shows. It is a cynical game. Everyone at FoxNews knows exactly what Sharpton is and He knows they know.

Sharpton shows up. Many left black leaders won't. Fox needs a prominent left black leader for balance and Sharpton benefits from the publicity of being on.