"just to take away the silly arguments and the games..." more on az immigration

Arizona lawmakers have approved several changes to the recently passed sweeping law targeting illegal immigration.

If Gov. Jan Brewer supports the changes, they will go into effect at the same time as the new law, 90 days from now.

The current law requires local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally, and makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally.

One change to the bill strengthens restrictions against using race or ethnicity as the basis for questioning and inserts those same restrictions in other parts of the law.

Changes to the bill language will actually remove the word "solely" from the sentence, "The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin."

Another change replaces the phrase "lawful contact" with "lawful stop, detention or arrest" to apparently clarify that officers don't need to question a victim or witness about their legal status.

A third change specifies that police contact over violations for local civil ordinances can trigger questioning on immigration status.

The law's sponsor, Republican Sen. Russell Pearce, characterized the race and ethnicity changes as clarifications "just to take away the silly arguments and the games, the dishonesty that's been played." Read more.

Silly arguments and dishonesty like the ones coming from the POTUS. One might even call it fear mongering. President Obama told a crowd in Ottumwa, Iowa:

Now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re going to get harassed — that’s something that could potentially happen… That’s not the right way to go.

I wonder if Obama even read the bill? I suppose he just assumes the cops will act stupidly.



Why Arizona Drew a Line
By KRIS W. KOBACH

Predictably, groups that favor relaxed enforcement of immigration laws, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, insist the law is unconstitutional. Less predictably, President Obama declared it “misguided” and said the Justice Department would take a look.

Presumably, the government lawyers who do so will actually read the law, something its critics don’t seem to have done. The arguments we’ve heard against it either misrepresent its text or are otherwise inaccurate. As someone who helped draft the statute, I will rebut the major criticisms individually:

It is unfair to demand that aliens carry their documents with them. It is true that the Arizona law makes it a misdemeanor for an alien to fail to carry certain documents. “Now, suddenly, if you don’t have your papers ... you’re going to be harassed,” the president said. “That’s not the right way to go.” But since 1940, it has been a federal crime for aliens to fail to keep such registration documents with them. The Arizona law simply adds a state penalty to what was already a federal crime. Moreover, as anyone who has traveled abroad knows, other nations have similar documentation requirements.

“Reasonable suspicion” is a meaningless term that will permit police misconduct. Over the past four decades, federal courts have issued hundreds of opinions defining those two words. The Arizona law didn’t invent the concept: Precedents list the factors that can contribute to reasonable suspicion; when several are combined, the “totality of circumstances” that results may create reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed.

For example, the Arizona law is most likely to come into play after a traffic stop. A police officer pulls a minivan over for speeding. A dozen passengers are crammed in. None has identification. The highway is a known alien-smuggling corridor. The driver is acting evasively. Those factors combine to create reasonable suspicion that the occupants are not in the country legally.

The law will allow police to engage in racial profiling. Actually, Section 2 provides that a law enforcement official “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” in making any stops or determining immigration status. In addition, all normal Fourth Amendment protections against profiling will continue to apply. In fact, the Arizona law actually reduces the likelihood of race-based harassment by compelling police officers to contact the federal government as soon as is practicable when they suspect a person is an illegal alien, as opposed to letting them make arrests on their own assessment.

It is unfair to demand that people carry a driver’s license. Arizona’s law does not require anyone, alien or otherwise, to carry a driver’s license. Rather, it gives any alien with a license a free pass if his immigration status is in doubt. Because Arizona allows only lawful residents to obtain licenses, an officer must presume that someone who produces one is legally in the country.

State governments aren’t allowed to get involved in immigration, which is a federal matter. While it is true that Washington holds primary authority in immigration, the Supreme Court since 1976 has recognized that states may enact laws to discourage illegal immigration without being pre-empted by federal law. As long as Congress hasn’t expressly forbidden the state law in question, the statute doesn’t conflict with federal law and Congress has not displaced all state laws from the field, it is permitted. That’s why Arizona’s 2007 law making it illegal to knowingly employ unauthorized aliens was sustained by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Obamateurism of the Day from Hot Air:

"One of the things that is a huge advantage for America compared to countries like Europe is, actually, we’re constantly replenishing ourselves with hungry, driven people who are coming here, and they want to work, and they start a business, and our population is younger and more dynamic, and that’s a good thing!"

Be sure to read these two stories: Obama Helped Kill Immigration Reform In 2007 - Will Media Remember?

In Defense of Arizona - "Mexico’s drug war has reached into Arizona cities. Federal authorities capture an average of 1.5 tons of marijuana per day in Arizona. Drug-related kidnappings, tortures, and murders of illegals by illegals have made Phoenix one of the most violent cities in the United States. Illegals crowd hospital emergency rooms, crash uninsured cars, and transform overbuilt neighborhoods into rooming house slums. Their children have the right, under a 1982 Supreme Court decision, to attend local schools at local expense, crowding the classrooms of native-born children, whose educations are further undermined when substantial numbers of their classmates cannot speak English."

UPDATE: Barack Obama, argued for the rule of law in deporting illegal immigrants in August 2006. Via BreitbartTV:


But on Wednesday April 28, 2010, President Obama told reporters that that the Arizona immigration law, which upholds federal law and allows police to demand proof of citizenship, threatens the “core values that we all care about.”

Funny, this reminds me of what he said about his aunt, who has been living in Boston (in public funded housing) illegally for years:

"If she is violating laws, those laws have to be obeyed," Obama told CBS when asked if he would support deporting his late father's sister, Zeituni Oyanango, to Kenya.

News that Oyanango, 56, was living illegally in the northeastern city of Boston broke Friday, just days before Tuesday's presidential election which Obama faces off against Republican John McCain.

"We're a nation of laws," Obama said in the CBS interview. "Obviously that doesn't lessen my concern for her, I haven't been able to be in touch with her. But I'm a strong believer you have to obey the law," he said.

So, what exactly is Obama's position? We are a nation of laws, and laws should be obeyed, except when they apply to my family, or when I need votes?

H/T Gateway Pundit for flashback video

my (somewhat rambling) thoughts on the arizona immigration law

If 70% of Arizonians support the Immigration bill, which means they are willing to show their identification if asked, what's the problem? Who doesn't carry identification all the time, anyway? I never leave home without my DL. And from what I understand of the law, the Police can't profile, or just stop anyone without probable cause or legal contact. It is a secondary offense. Kind of like the seat belt laws in some states - you can't be pulled over for not wearing a seat belt, but if you are pulled over for speeding or something, and you aren't wearing the belt, you can get a ticket. The bill also targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly transport them.

Many people are outraged about the bill, saying this infringes on the rights of all legal citizens, and is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. But I ask, are the rights of citizens in Arizona being more infringed upon by carrying the burden of 460,000 illegal immigrants, and living with dangerously high crime rates, or by showing ID if asked? (Personally, this seems like a good bill in this day and age of terrorism, as well...how many terrorists from 9/11 were here on expired visas?)


If you are an American citizen, how is this a burden? It takes two seconds to show your ID... It's like driving. If you are stopped, what's the first thing you have to do? Show your drivers license, registration and insurance. Driving legally, are you ever concerned about showing those documents? The only time you are worried is when you forgot to pay your insurance, or your DL is expired, no? So, what's the big deal?


Another hot button topic is the issue of whether illegals are "taking jobs" from legal citizens. With nationwide unemployment at 9.7% and as high as 15% in some states, I would think this would be a huge issue. But, as usual, we hear the same old talking point - no one would want "those jobs".

Sherri Shepherd said it on the The View (that no one would want those jobs) but, interestingly, that portion has been deleted from the video.


(Did the Danish King wear the Star, as Joy said? Nope.)

First of all, who are these people that think they are too good to work in the construction, hotel, restaurant and farming industries? Second of all, as I've said many times before, if we have 12 million jobs that could employee out of work legal American citizens, but no one wants them, then what the hell are we paying unemployment and welfare?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those industries. Most likely Sherri was referring to back breaking farm work when she made that comment. So, my question for her, and others who think like her, why do you believe Americans would not want or do the jobs that illegal immigrants do?

I imagine the reply would be something along the lines of "the jobs are demeaning and difficult and the pay is too low".

So...does that mean they aren't bothered that Mexicans are working for slave wages, doing horrible jobs that no *self respecting American* would touch? I would think people would have a problem with this. Apparently, as long as they are reaping the benefits, they don't mind *other people* working for slave wages, in crap jobs?

Opponents to the bill are charging supporters of the bill with racism. To me, it seems like the people who are in support of allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country and work for slave wages, in horrid conditions that none of them would accept, are perhaps the racists. After all, they need *someone* to pick their fruit, change their beds, wash their dishes, and build their homes...and they certainly aren't going to do it. Especially at those wages!! Let the Mexicans do it!

Doesn't that come across as a little elitist and perhaps racist, to you?

One could argue that immigrants come to America willingly, and out of necessity, take those jobs. But don't opponents of this bill have a problem with corporations utilizing illegal labor and paying them well below minimum wage? (I'm assuming they are paid below minimum wage, otherwise, why wouldn't unemployed Americans want those jobs?) And if these jobs were not going to undocumented workers, they would be at least minimum wage.

I had an online discussion with an owner of a construction company once, and he was telling me that he would love to employee Americans, but the only people who ever show up to his help wanted ads are illegal workers. He said he pays about $12 - $15 an hour. They work hard, never complain, and are always on time. This conversation was a few years ago, so I imagine times have changed. If not, again I ask, why the hell are we paying welfare and unemployment?

I can't fault someone for coming to America, wanting to earn a better wage, and provide for their families. I believe there are honest people who just want a slice of the American pie. The problems are the criminals, the drugs, the burden on tax payers, schools, health care industry, the companies that employ them, the fact that it is illegal, and the mess America is now in, because they avoided this problem for far too long.

Whether their intentions are good, or bad, the reality is, it is against the law. And if states like Arizona are burdened with violent crime, and dangerous borders, they should have a right to do something about it, if the Federal Government won't.

You have to love the brain power at MSNBC: "Law Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant."


Uh....it is illegal, hence the name *illegal immigrant*. Newsbusters covered this here.

People are so concerned about racial profiling. How many civil liberties have we given up at the airport because the airlines refuse to profile? Instead of profiling, anyone who wants to fly is forced to almost fully undress, are subjected to body searches, revealing x-ray machines that show jiggly bits, harassment (video of 90 year old woman in wheel chair and her daughter detained at airport), etc. In order to not offend anyone, we are all punished....

And just for fun, here's a look at the media coverage in comparison to the tea party coverage.



What are your thoughts on the whole mess?

(Sorry if this is kind of disjointed...I was just thinking out loud. Scary, I know.)

Two good articles to read:

Obamacare Requires You To "Show Your Papers"

A law Arizona can live with

eugene - a hate free zone...

Sarah Palin, former Vice Presidential candidate and Alaskan governor, spoke at a gathering of Lane County Republicans in Eugene, Ore. on Friday, April 23, 2010. She was greeted by someone who wanted her to know that Eugene Oregon was a "hate free zone".

Oh really?

(note the sign mocking Palin's "palm pilot" incident,

directly in front of a slew of hateful signs)

(Notice the sign (attacking Palin's kid over a false rumor) with "advice" misspelled - right next to the sign calling Palin ignorant - that is completely insulting to working women everywhere -"Stay Home". Also, in the back, "lipstick is no disguise" - so Palin is a pig?)

(Hope she chokes? That's sweet. Insult to women? How, exactly? "Welcome to the Real America, now S.T.F.O." - real America, Eugene, where we hope you choke!

And what is STFO? Stay the fuck out? Nice.)

So...hate for me, but not for thee? Or would that be hate for thee, but not for me? Or... we consider everything you say hateful, and we don't want it here, but we can spew all the hate we want! Or...Republicans STFU! We are the only ones who can spew hate! Yes, that's sounds about right.

No... changed my mind. That's still not right. This is what they are saying: *Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Partiers, STFU, or we will lie, spread rumors, call you racist hate-mongers and direct all of our sexist, misogynistic, violent hatred towards you.* There, that sounds about right.

H/T HotAir, Yahoo

and Memeorandum.

SEC jacks-off while bernie made-off with all the dough

SEC Porn Problem: Officials Surfing Sites During Financial Crisis, Report Finds

More at memeorandum: SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed

This is why I love Hot Air: "While Rome burned, Nero, er, “fiddled”


Obama's keeping the cash:

"In the 2008 campaign, you got a lot of money, about $1 million from employees of Goldman Sachs," Harwood said. "Your former White House counsel Greg Craig is apparently going to represent Goldman Sachs. In light of this case, do either of those things embarrass you?"

"No," Obama said. "First of all, I got a lot of money from a lot of people. And the vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country."

"Obama's skill at raising money from small donors for the 2008 campaign was significant. But Obama was also skilled at raising money from large donors. His statement was, "the vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country." That's not the case. Only 32 percent of his general election money came from people who gave $200 or less. We rate his statement False."

psst, hey joan, hope this helps

This was so funny, I had to watch it over and over. Mika was killing me.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: ...I think it helps us all to say there are extreme voices on the left, there are extreme voices on the right, and it's our responsibility to call out people, I believe, on our side.

JOAN WALSH: Who would you have me call out? I mean who would you say on the left is comparable to Rush and...

SCARBOROUGH: Don't do it.

MIKA BREZEZINSKI: Mmm-mmm! No thanks, Joan. We're good. We're good.

SCARBOROUGH: Can we talk about the Chinese now?

MIKA: I think it's all very obvious.

WALSH: Is it obvious? Who on the left is comparable to Rush and Glenn on the right?

Hot Air and Newsbusters and the commenter's came up with lots of examples.

You would think, as a regular guest on MSNBC, Joan could have thought of at least one name... like, maybe herself.

H/T

Newsbusters for the video and transcript

Jammie Wearing Fool for video

Memeorandum: Joan Walsh: There is no liberal Rush.

I kind of have to agree that there is no Liberal Rush. The unhinged haters at MSNBC - Olbermann, Shultz, O'Donnell, Ratigan, Shuster (oops, he was fired), are just unhinged haters who scream because they are incapable of holding intelligent debate. I wouldn't put Rush in that category. Tingles is perhaps the closest they have to Rush. Maddow is just an intolerable partisan snarker.

But, when Walsh says:

"I asked him whom he thought I should denounce, because I don't think there's anyone on the left as consistently cruel, divisive and wrong as Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck."

It's obvious she is delusional.

She can't even explain her *lack of bias* without taking a crack at Sarah Palin...No one thought it was a moment of *ditz*, Ms. Walsh. It was a moment of full blown, flat out biased bullshit.

the big easy beatdown

With all the left wing frenzied hysterics over the alleged "dangerous, racist, extremist tea partiers" and the hostile, accusatory language, you would think when there was an actual violent attack, the media would cover it, no?

Well, hold on. The media did cover the alleged road rage accident that was allegedly over an Obama bumper sticker. And the alleged spit incident, and the alleged n-word incidents. And the MSM and Left blamed the tea party for the IRS attack, the FED scrawled census worker, the whack job Professor, the Pentagon shooter.... (All of which have been either backtracked, or proven false.)

The road rage incident, as we know, involved a man who had been drinking, who's wife had died like a month earlier, and had not been politically active (in fact his last political donation was in the early 80's) but the media ran with the story that it was over an Obama bumper sticker, thus resulting in a new round of attacks on "teabaggers". Even though the "victim" admitted he slammed on the brakes, causing the accident.

There was no evidence of the n-word, and a supposed *white* witnesses has now denied he heard anything, Cleaver admits the spit was a *say it, don't spray it* situation, the IRS attacker was a communist supporting wacko, the Pentagon shooter was mentally ill, and a 9/11 truther, and the Professor was an obsessed Obama supporter. But that didn't stop anyone on the left for blaming the Tea Party for any of these events.

Despite actual reports about the reality of the tea parties, others are still bitterly clinging to the notion that they are nothing but violent racists, even accused of putting on a Minstrel show. (and when confronted, Charles Blow admits he didn't see any racism...) Groups set out to infiltrate the tea parties to intentionally make them appear racist and violent. (why the need, if they are racist and violent already?)

Charles Blow even attacked Zo in his pitiful piece. Zo responds:

In addition to the Target maps I covered, and the "regime" bs (oh, did you know that New York magazine's John Heilemann, when supporting Joe Klein, who accused Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin of sedition for terms like regime, used the term to?) And so did John Kerry.



The tea partiers have even been smeared for using the term "Take Back Our Country".

New Yorker editor David Remnic: "What concerns me is the phrase ‘Take Back Our Country.’ When I hear the phrase ‘we want our country back’ I’m afraid that’s coded language."

So, "take back our country" is now coded racist language...?

You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America
by Howard Dean

Take Back Our Country
by ELSIE FOX
July 20, 2006

An Open Letter to America: It's Time to Take Back Our Country
by John & Elaine Mellencamp



Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future
by James Carville

Take Back Our Country
by Donna Middlehurst
Act Blue

h/t Mediaite commenter Timzank for the "Take Back Our Country" research

In addition to all the attacks from the Left, Bill Clinton, on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing linked the tea partiers with Timothy McVeigh.





Doesn't Bill Clinton realize that he is doing the same thing to tea partiers that Obama and his supporters did to Bill and to Hillary during the primary?

BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN CALLS BILL CLINTON A RACIST



Bill Clinton under fire for ‘racist’ slur belittling Barack Obama

Bill Clinton: I'm not a racist

Hillary Clinton Bobby Kennedy comment: "Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

But anyway, what does all this have to do with the title of the post, the big easy beatdown?

Allee Bautsch, a Louisiana GOP fundraiser for Governor Bobby Jindal, was released from the hospital today. She and her boyfriend Joseph Brown endured an April 9 brutal attack by individuals outside of Brennan's, a restaurant in the New Orleans' French Quarter.


"Brown said several protesters were loitering outside the restaurant when they left, and he heard "cat calls" as they walked away. A group of three to five men followed them from the restaurant, yelled obscenities and taunted them, but he heard nothing suggesting the attack was politically motivated. The police report does not say what the protest was about.

Bautsch, who suffered a broken leg in the attack, was either pushed down or fell after Brown was attacked. Brown suffered a mild concussion and broken jaw and nose that required hospital treatment.

One of the attackers pushed Brown into an iron gate that surrounds the state Supreme Court building.

"He then fell to the ground, and one of the attackers got on top of him and began to attack him," the report says. "Mr. Brown stated as he was being pushed to the ground, Ms. Bautsch was also either pushed down or fell down near where he was."

These are the protesters outside of the restaurant where the Jindal fundraiser was held:



This is a photo of a guy who fits the description perfectly of Allee's attacker. This guy may be completely innocent, he just happens to match the description to a T.

Sergeant Nick Gernon is the investigating officer for this case, and some points are pretty clear on the police report that should be seriously considered.

The assailant is described by Mr. Brown as 6'01", thin build, thin face, beard (dark brown), dark red ponytail hair style, light colored t- shirt, dark pants. Mr. Brown also described the assailant as appearing "dirty" but not homeless.

At this point, there is not 100% absolute proof that this was a political attack. All we know for sure is that there was a large political protest outside of the Jindal political event. The political protesters blocked the door to the restaurant causing some guests to have to leave through the back door. The guests were spotted by the protesters, and had to run and jump in cabs to escape. Many in the group used scarves to conceal their faces.


An initial statement by an officer was that it was political in nature. The reports from the victims claim that the attack seemed political in nature. The catcalls and insults hurled at Bautsch and Brown were “all about money.” The police report quotes Brown as recalling one of them was “You think you’re f**ing special” and that there were comments as to how sharply attired the pair were, which coincidently are the same types of statements and signs of the protesters.

The group that organized the protest deleted all of the videos and information from their web site.

“What an awesome action.

New Orleans bared its fangs and snarled,

and the rich people shat themselves in fear.”

"Jindal tell your rich friends to go home!"

Allee and Joseph were followed from the restaurant, attacked about a block away, were beaten, and badly injured. Her purse was not stolen, so it wasn't a robbery.

The tea party has been falsely and unfairly attacked and blamed multiple times, with absolutely no evidence what so ever.

Two Republicans were attacked, bones were broken, and not a peep from the MSM. And what little news coverage this has received, there has been absolutely no speculation or accusation that this was a political attack on Republicans.

So I suppose the facts that there were aggressive protesters outside of the event, others had to run to avoid the protesters, the catcalls were similar to the signs of the protesters, the protesters were chanting, "they say Cut backs, we say Fight back", the victims were followed from the event, and it was not a robbery, and photos of the crowds match the descriptions given to police of their attackers just happens to all be a huge coincidence?

Where is the main stream media on this? Where are the *rush to judgment* stories we typically see? Where are the accusations? Where are the hysterics and outrage? Where's the investigative reporting? Where is the outrage that this young woman had her leg broken in four places?

*crickets*

Please see The Hayride, a news and commentary blog from Louisiana for the full and in-depth coverage of this story. There is much more to this attack, and they are doing an incredible job covering the story.

Many in the blogosphere are avoiding this story, fearful of jumping to conclusions and calling this a political attack - something the Left never hesitates to do, when it comes to the Tea Parties, or Conservatives. That's why I stayed away from the story until now. I don't like to be reactionary. But the double standard is just so friggin obvious and pathetic that this needs covered. And I also believe that this was a political attack.

I didn't believe the chick that carved the B in her face, and I didn't believe the guy that scrawled FED in his chest. I believe this story was an attack on Allee and Joseph because they are Republicans and were at the Bobby Jindal fundraising event.

UPDATE: I just found this story, from Canada Free Press:

Republican Officials Attacked and Injured in New Orleans

On the night of Friday April 9th in a petite female political operative and her boyfriend were attacked and seriously injured in New Orleans by a vicious group of crazed cowards who shrieked political insults while pouncing. After the pummeling, the petite female and her boyfriend were left, collectively, with a compound leg fracture, a concussion, a broken nose and broken jaw. No robbery occurred.

But wait!....Don’t waste your time—if you’re Googling for this item on CNN, New York Times, Wa-Po, MSNBC, Huff-Po, ABC, Salon, CBS, etc.—that is.

Linked at memeorandum.

cathy areu is an idiot

She hates successful people, she hates pretty women, and she can only relate to people who shop at Wal-mart? What the hell is her obsession with Wal-Mart?



What is her obsession with what Palin earns? Sarah Palin made a lot of money for the first time in her life last year - good for her! That doesn't mean she became Oprah overnight.

Ms. Areu came across so embarrassingly stupid and petty and seems to have no legit reason for the hate. She just wanted to get her 15 minutes and we know the easiest way to do that is to slam Sarah Palin. So, ok, she got it. Now let's hope she will just go away.

Talk about lacking class. Her comments are so completely insulting to women. Palin got her job because she's pretty? People like Sarah because she's pretty? How embarrassing and insulting for women, everywhere.

(I know I called Cathy stupid and an idiot, but it's ok. She can take it.)

olympia tax day tea party UPDATED

My friend Kristi attended the Tax Day tea party in Olympia, WA and took some lovely pics!

David Boze addresses the crowd.

Lasse Lund

Kirby Wilbur

Obama showed up to bow to everyone.

Pretty!

Vet at the WWII memorial in Olympia

Thanks Kristi!

Lost more pics of parties around the country at No Sheeples Here.

Check out this great shot from the Wisconsin Tea Party at The TrogloPundit

UPDATE: I just love these pics of infiltrators being exposed. The guy featured on Michelle Malkin's site just makes me giggle. I love that so many people have the "They're not with us" signs!! The message defnintely got out that peoeple were going to try an infiltrate to make the Tea Partiers look bad.

The Crashers: They came, they saw, they failed

Racist Leftist Infiltrators Driven From Tea Party Rallies

"the white guy heard it too!"

Jesse Washington from AP reported that, in addition to the three African American lawmakers that claim they were called the n-word during the health care signing, a "white" guy heard it too.

Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying.

Is he trying to suggest that white guys are more credible?

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

Washington also focuses on just one video that was filmed after the supposed event. Problem is, he is ignoring the many videos that have been found on youtube - none proving any racial slurs were yelled at black lawmakers.

But that's not the only problem with his story.

Heath Shuler wasn't walking with Cleaver, and he didn't hear anyone yell out the n-word.

But when we phoned Shuler’s office this afternoon, press secretary Julie Fishman told us the local reporter misunderstood. According to Fishman, Shuler’s comments to the Times-News referred to the general tenor of the protests, not to the black congressmen’s specific allegations. Fishman said that Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the “N-word.”

Considering Jesse Jackson Jr. was videotaping the entire event, if it happened, he should have captured it, no? And since Breitbart is offering $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund for video proof, if it actually happened, Jackson would want to release the proof, no?


Should people wonder why "Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying"?

And no wonder Roland Martin thinks Tea Party activists should just *move on*. He just doesn't understand why people who were unfairly smeared as racists would want to try to clear their reputation...

ROLAND MARTIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALSYT: No, I think it’s — I think it’s dumb on the Tea Party’s part to be focusing on this. I mean, if you are trying to create an actual movement, this is the last thing you want to continue talking about. You want to be talking about policy. You want to getting folks involved. You don’t want to be constantly reminding people of the possibility that the “n” word was used because all you’re simply doing is having a self-fulfilling prophecy. And it just makes no sense if you’re trying to create an actual movement.

Hey Roland, tea party peeps would love to talk about policy and get people involved, but when race baiter's and haters like you and Cooper lie, attack them, disparage them, and constantly call them *teabagging racists* they have a right to defend themselves.

H/T Big Journalism

crash the tea party efforts going well...

In the words of Mona Lisa Vito, "Oh yea, you blend."

Note to party crashers - I think the point was to try and blend in and appear like an actual "racist, bigoted" tea partier. Not stick out like a sore thumb, or like your typical ordinary leftist loony protester.







And they call tea partiers stupid....

H/T Say anything

racist, homophobic signs at tea parties?

Ugly slurs, redneck wear, hateful signs?

Blame these guys:



This message is now spreading throughout the Tea Party movement and they are on to these people. Anything suspicious that happens at Tea Parties can, and will be, blamed on these people. We know Liberals have infiltrated the parties already, with the intent to make them look bad. Now, there is a web site and organized movement to prove it.

See Left Coast Rebel and The Wisdom of Soloman for more details.

There's also this group: Crash the tea parties!

Spread the word.

my name is maxine waters, and i am a friggin hypocrite

And liar.

H/T Breitbart via Memeorandum

Maxine Water's original interview here.

buona pasqua and happy easter!

and it's my 44th birthday!

selective memory continues on the left ~UPDATED

Continuing the theme of the utter hypocrisy on the Left, check out these stories:

1. Chris Tingles Matthews and "regime"

“I’ve never seen language like this in the American press,” Matthews said, before calling Limbaugh a “walrus underwater*.” “We know that word regime, it was used by recent President George Bush, regime change. You go to war with regimes.”

"The use of the word regimes in American political parlance is unacceptable and someone should tell the walrus to stop using it…I don’t even think Joe McCarthy called this government a regime."

Well, well, looky here:


I guess Tingles never watches Olbermann? Who can blame him, really.

2. This is no longer about political dissent. It is about storm trooper sound bites, and hate.

We are 100 yards, no more than that, from the front entrance to the school. There is a stop sign here, and underneath the word "Stop" someone has spray-painted "Obama."

Stop Obama.

Why has somebody done it? Because in the current climate, people have been convinced they can. Or, more likely, that they should.

Why, why, why did someone do this?! The horror!! The hate!

Tea Party Paranoia is apparently setting in for progressives. Case in point? New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica uses graffiti on a stop sign to launch into the prevalent anti-Obama attitude that is currently strong in America. You see, without a single shred of evidence, Lupica presumes Tea Party crazies must have painted ‘Obama’ under ‘Stop’ – 100 yards from a school no less!! Won’t someone think of the children?!

Hmmm...I wonder where someone ever got the idea to spray paint "Obama" on a stop sign?

Click to see image.

3. David Shuster Insists Dems Hate Hitler Analogies - Oh really?

Sen. Robert Byrd compared Senate Republicans to Hitler:

Rep. Grayson compares Health Care to Holocaust:

Envious Ed Schultz Likens Limbaugh to Hitler

Liberal group La Rouche PAC compare Obama to Hitler (and are the ones bringing the signs of Obama as Hitler to the tea parties.

Congressman Keith Ellison Compares Bush To Hitler:



MoveOn runs ad, submitted by contestants in a MoveOn sponsored contest, comparing Bush to Hitler:



Keith Olbermann compares Bush to Hitler, and calls him a fascist:




The Gallery of "Bush = Hitler" Allusions and Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective


On the Left, Comparing Bush's America to North Korea Makes You Supreme Court Material

4. Ed Schultz: I've Never Spewed Hate on My MSNBC Show; Our Video Proves Otherwise



5. Emanuel Cleaver: I haven’t done anything to hype that spitting incident

So transparent a lie is this that I don’t know how to read it except as a tacit admission that he wasn’t, in fact, deliberately spat on.

6. Tea party haters see racism everywhere, except in themselves.

Yesterday, we were talking about the Flickr page set up to collect photographs of Tea Party signs with grammar and spelling errors. The page is called "Teabonics," a term intended to express how stupid Tea Partiers are. But the coinage "Teabonics" is a play on "Ebonics." The word "Ebonics" isn't supposed to make fun of mistakes made by black people. It embodies the claim that speech that may sound nonstandard is, in fact, a language with its own grammar, that may be studied and learned.

You know the sign, "I did'nt serve 22 years..." and the guy was called a: "Simpleton white dumbfuck retards, all." He is African American. See him at 4:25 mark. So, did they purposely crop him out of the picture on Flikr? (this was my comment)

It sure seems that Democrats have very short, or very select memories, eh? I guess that's why they're the jackasses, and not the elephant...

Be sure to check out these stories, as well:

• A tale of two time-stamps: Smoking-gun proof that Democrats, the Huffington Post and McClatchy conspired to smear Tea Party activists?
• Black Dem Rep. Who Was Reportedly Spit on by Tea Party Protester: I Never Claimed to Have Been Spit on Intentionally, Others Are Making the Claim on My Behalf, Refuses to Confirm it Happened..
• How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear
• Barack Obama’s Helter-Skelter, Insane Clown Posse, Alinsky Plans to ‘Deconstruct’ America

*Nice to see Tingles maintaining the high level of sophistication over at msnbc.

UPDATED: You are going to love this. Check out what Newsbusters uncovered:

Matthews said "Bush regime" on his own "Hardball" program on June 14, 2002:

So is the Bush administration using the, using the terror war to curb civil liberties here at home? Let's go to the Reverend Al Sharpton. Reverend Sharpton, what do you make of this letter and this panoply of the left condemning the Bush regime?

Be sure to see who else on MSNBC referred to "The Bush Regime".

"The use of the word "regime" in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus to stop using it."