By Douglas V. Gibbs
Representative Shuler is denying he said he heard racial slurs, when in an interview with the media he said he heard racial epithets being shouted by a crowd of angry health care protesters outside the U.S. Capitol.
The incident occurred on March 20. while walking to the U.S. Capitol to vote on the health care bill with other black Democratic congressmen John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver who also said they heard the N-word as they walked. Openly gay Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts added that he heard an anti-homosexual slur.
Three days later the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News published an interview with Shuler, and in the story Shuler claims as he walked with Cleaver he heard racial slurs.
On Wednesday, Shuler told the Associated Press that he heard slurs against Frank, but not Cleaver.
The fact is, the N-word was never used, and the whole reason the Congressmen walked outside among those protesters in the first place was to bait them into doing what the Congressmen claim. Congressmen normally use the tunnels to get to the Capitol, and had no reason to walk outside. They walked outside hoping for slurs to be shouted so that their claims that Tea Partiers, and the opposition to the left's policies, are a bunch of racists could be confirmed. When no racial slur was shouted, and no video evidence could be produced to show it was, they made up the story knowing that the main-extreme media would not question their claim, and that the media was looking for a story of racism to pin on the Right.
Just another example of the sleazy, unethical politics of the Left.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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