Bobby Rush: 'Lynched' on the House Floor by Mississippi Republican? [says WAPO]

newsbusters.org ^ | 4/2/12 | Tim Graham

[Justaham]

When Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie and sunglasses on the House floor as a stunt to publicize his opposition to the handling of Trayvon Martin's death in Florida, McClatchy News Service cooed, "For the 65-year-old former 1960s Black Panther Party activist, an act of civil disobedience never felt so good."

But Washington Post columnist Lisa Miller inflated the stunt way beyond its significance --- comparing it to lynching -- with a white Republican congressman from Mississippi, Rep. Gregg Harper, as the alleged metaphorical hangman for pounding the gavel and calling Rep. Rush out of order:

[qaz123]

Soros, Buffet, Gates, Immelt, Hollywood, MSM and themselves. Wait a minute. The first group won’t, they’ll just use them for political purposes and they’ve proven they can’t support themselves.