[tomder55]

You have to admit though it was clever bit of theater the House Dems staged walking through the protesters at the Capitol and equating the passage of health care with confronting mobs of white racists at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama .

The drama wouldn't be complete if there weren't allegations of racial slurs and spitting .

You would think that in the age of Youtube and cellphone video cameras someone... anyone would be able to produce the proof of the allegation. After all ,George Allen's campaign was derailed over a single word.

[excon]

No, follow the link on post # 17 above. There was no spitting incident and there was no "n word" incident.

Hello again, Steve:

Like I said, you CAN'T prove that something didn't happen. I get, though, that you don't think it did. But, I saw the video. I saw the anger. I saw the guy wipe his face. I KNOW who those people are...

Let's talk about that... How do I KNOW who those people are? Well, I'll tell you. Even I, a liberal, from liberal Seattle KNOW people who HATE Obama. They DON'T refrain from calling him a nigger in my presence. As a matter of fact, they LOVE calling him that.

Now, I don't know about you, and the circles you run in down there in liberal Texas, but I won't believe you if you tell me that you haven't heard him referred to as that. Given that I'm positive you HAVE heard it, then I cannot imagine, why you cannot imagine a tea partier saying it.

If you tell me, though, that your conversations with your right wing buddies down there in Texas, include words like African American, instead of nigger, I ain't buying what you're selling.

excon

[speechlesstx]

Like I said, you CAN'T prove that something didn't happen.

Then I'll settle for proving it did happen. Incidental spittle is not racism.

Now, I don't know about you, and the circles you run in down there in liberal Texas, but I won't believe you if you tell me that you haven't heard him referred to as that. Given that I'm positive you HAVE heard it, then I cannot imagine why you cannot imagine a tea partier saying it.

Well then ex, you might as well start calling me a liar now because I don't recall ever hearing one person in my circle do such a thing. Did you forget that I am the minority in my community, that I grew up that way, that almost all of my friends growing up had darker skin than me? Why, would my circle change their behavior now?

If you tell me, though, that your conversations with your right wing buddies down there in Texas, include words like African American, instead of nigger, I ain't buying what you're selling.

Come on down and see for yourself. Send CNN, MSNBC, whoever, they're not going to find anything like you're describing in these parts.

[tomder55]

He's on a role . He managed to call 3 of us racists in less than 4 hrs.

[speechlesstx]

Yes, he's following the playbook perfectly.

[speechlesstx]

Here is a perfect example of media hypocrisy on this today. While they continue their tea partiers as racists theme, vile, obscene attacks on NJ Governor Chris Christie are being portrayed as "schoolyard taunts that could get a student suspended."

"Never trust a fat f...," read one profane post on the Facebook page, "New Jersey Teachers United Against Governor Chris Christie's Pay Freeze," which has some 69,000 fans, many of them teachers.

"How do you spell A-- hole? C-H-R-I-S C-H-R-I-S-T-I-E," read another...

Another pointed out that Christie's late mother was a member of the teachers union: "It's not right to bite the hand that feeds you. Oh I forgot it's Chirs Christie, He's so large I bet he'd bite anything that's put in front of his face!"

"Remember Pol Pot, dictator of Cambodia?" warned another. "He reigned in terror, his target was teachers and intellectuals. They were either killed or put into forced labor... King Kris Kristy is headed in this direction."

Unlike the worries of mythical racial epithets, spitfests and "minstrel shows" at tea parties, now worries here, these teachers are just being emotional, "most aren't personal attacks."