VIDEO: McClatchy News Fuels Phantom N-Word Story With Contradictions and Errors
We all know the story by now. Rep. Andre Carson (D, Ind.) says that he and Rep. John Lewis (D, Ga.) were assaulted with racial slurs by Tea Party protesters as they walked down the step of the Cannon office building and headed to the Capitol on March 20. McClatchy News reported that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, Mo.) also told reporters that he heard the ‘N-word’ as he was walking a few yards behind Rep. Lewis. “It was like a chorus,” Cleaver said.
Only problem is: Cleaver wasn’t there. He didn’t walk behind Lewis coming down the steps of Cannon on the way to the Capitol. He walked behind Lewis coming up the steps of Cannon on the way back from the Capitol.
Of course, Cleaver and Carson could claim that racial slurs were screamed both times by the Tea Party protesters. If that’s the case, then they have contradicted their own narrative from two weeks ago when the AP ran a story with the headline:
Wrong video of health protest spurs N-word feud
The entire thesis of that story was that the dumb, right-wing wackos were looking at the wrong video at the wrong time to show that racial slurs didn’t happen. We’d been looking at a video showing the Congressional Black Caucus walking up the steps of Cannon returning from the Capitol. But the racial slurs were shouted earlier in the day while Rep. Carson and Rep. Lewis were walking to the Capitol.
If last month’s narrative was that there were no racial slurs shouted on the way up the steps of Cannon, then how did Rep. Cleaver hear a chorus of the ‘N-word’?
It seems McClatchy has only one question left to ask: Who’s lying — Carson or Cleaver? Or… both?
Read the original for links to above-mentioned items: http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/05/04/video-mcclatchy-news-fuels-phantom-n-word-story-with-contradictions-and-errors/
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