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AP Admits Rep. Heath Shuler Did Not Hear Tea Party Racial Slurs...After WSJ Writer Investigates
NewsBusters ^ | April 15, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 04/15/2010 3:51:31 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Oops!

On the heels of a story a couple of days ago which used Congressman Heath Shuler as a source about how racial slurs were probably hurled at the Washington, D.C. Tea Party on March 20, the Associated Press has been forced to backtrack. Here is how AP writer Jesse Washington used what Heath Shuler supposedly heard to promote the idea of a Tea Party chock full of racists:

A fourth Democrat, Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Henderson (N.C.) Times-News that he heard the slurs.


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KEYWORDS: associatedpress; heathshuler; racialslur; teaparty
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To: Sybeck1

I guess that makes him a good Democrat, doesn’t it? Just another dud.


21 posted on 04/15/2010 4:29:31 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: PJ-Comix

What do you expect from a Volunteer?


22 posted on 04/15/2010 4:30:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PJ-Comix

You know, we all hate the New York and LA Slimes but the really, really fecal MSM is the AP.


23 posted on 04/15/2010 4:32:07 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: dfwgator

My thoughts exactly. Go Gators!!!


24 posted on 04/15/2010 4:47:53 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Scoundrel.


25 posted on 04/15/2010 4:49:40 PM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected
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To: PJ-Comix
It's about time!!

Now will there be an admission of guilt an apology coming from all the slanderers? I won't hold my breath waiting.

26 posted on 04/15/2010 5:14:13 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: PJ-Comix

No democrat will get my vote again .... especially not a vile democrat.


27 posted on 04/15/2010 5:48:47 PM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: PJ-Comix

I forwarded this thread to RUSH 24/7...


28 posted on 04/15/2010 8:06:26 PM PDT by tubebender (Don 't pick a fight with an old man.  If he is too old to fight, he'll just shoot you...)
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To: PJ-Comix

Don’t tell me that liberals are inventing hate crimes! I am so shocked. not.


29 posted on 04/16/2010 9:59:01 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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