Breitbart loses bet; blames Black Caucus for racial slurs
Remember when Andrew Breitbart swore no racist slurs were hurled at the Congressional Black Caucus the day of the health care vote? He sneered at the possibility that any teabagger had behaved in a racist or inappropriate fashion just before he promised to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if he was proven wrong.
Seems to me the video up above is pretty clear and convincing evidence of spitting, racism and hate, and it seems Breitbart thinks so, too. Now that he can't deny it happened, he's choosing to blame John Lewis et al for walking through the group of angry teabaggers.
In truly despicable fashion, Breitbart let Hannity's audience know how outraged he was at the unfairness of it all:
BREITBART: The very act of the Black Congressional Caucus, walking through the tea party people while holding all those videos was an act of provocation. They need this desperately and one last thing. The language that Nancy Pelosi is using about the civil rights movement, comparing the unpopular health care bill to the civil rights movement ties into this… They’re all on the talking points, basically telling black people that the white people are trying to take your health care from you. This is a racial, racist, racially divisive strategy that they’re playing that’s very dangerous in the United States.
The noise machine is cranked up to full volume and steaming right ahead. In classic blame-the-victim style, Breitbart suggests that John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver should have walked around the murmuring mob of nasty white folks rather than through them, because obviously the mere presence of black Congressmen was so inflammatory as to throw all caution (and spit) to the wind.
Never mind that they were walking up stairs to the building where they work as representatives elected by the majority of voters in their districts. That doesn't matter to Andrew Breitbart, because he just cannot stand the unbearable weight of intellectual honesty.
His remarks prove how deeply racist he, and the movement he champions, truly are.
I doubt Not-so-Breitbart will pay up.
I'm sure the loudmouthed chickenshit and his minions and allies are confounded at the idea of "bravery".
"Smear and Run" is their motto
Breitbart will soon be visiting a prison full of serial criminals, to remind them if their victims hadn't crossed their path, they wouldn't be in jail.
Makes sense to folks like Charles Manson or Breitbart, I suppose?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
People like Breitbart always welch on their bragging bets! He will be no different! Lets get the email and bombard him with requests for copies of the check!
That was fun.
Breitblart bets ten K
protesters are gentlemen
they spit in his eye
of those Catholic priests. Do you think Breitbart will pull a Hannity and not pay up?
Or that Swift Boat supporter who welched ona bet about the evidence regarding Kerrey serving in Vietnam.
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But your honor,
The mere fact that those Negros walked in the front entrance was enough provocation...
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
That woman was wearing a swimsuit! What else could I do but rape her?
Judge: So, you confess to killing the victim?
Teabagger: Yes, Your Honor, I do.
Judge: I'll need you to allocute. Why did you kill him?
Teabagger: I was provoked.
Judge: How?
Teabagger: I did not like the victim, but the victim lived. Had he not lived, I would not have been provoked into killing him.
Judge: Are you hoping I will consider that an affirmative defense?
Teabagger: I'm hoping you were appointed by the Republicans.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
That's funny!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Exactly right. If Lewis, et al, weren't trying to provoke the Tea Partiers, then why did they be black?
True enough!
"And what the he** did he think he was doin' walksin' with d'hat WOMAN from San Francisca' Californie?
"You tellin' me they wasn't juss beggin' fur it ya h'nur"?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
DogHouse quality
The paranoid and anti-social Teabagger astro-turf group is made up of reactionary racists.
Same as it ever was.
b-b-b-b-b-but... they WALKED BY US!
Blame the victim...
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
This reminds me of an old MAD Magazine article from way back - during the Civil Rights movement, there are a bunch of activists walking down the street singing, "We shall overcome".
A couple of white Bubbas are standing on the other side of the street - one says to the other, "I don't mind if they overcome. Just as long as they don't overcome a-over HERE".
At least MAD was "ha ha" funny...
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
And politically liberal. Funny, considering many of these same people who grew up reading it turned out to be conservatives with terrible senses of (political) humor. Oh mom... :(
I used to dream of writing for them.
I used to have to sneak to read my brother's MAD mag...Mom thought it unladylike to read such stuff.
I learned so much about the world reading that stuff.
"When profit comes up against morality, it's rare that profit loses."~Shirley Chisholm
..this clown's initials are A.B. Hmmmmm.... always blaming someone else. No, no. That'd be A.B.S.E. Ok, Andrew Breitbart, Stupidity Extraordinaire'.
MZ
I would bet that he will.
I'd like to see him sued by ACORN for the phony videos that he was involved in producing that ultimately forcedcthem to shut their doors.
He's got a lot to answer for.
pockets. Get him personally, Acorn.
Ah mean, Jeezis! Jee-ee-zis! They ain' s'posed t'be on da same sahdwahk as decent Whaht Fo'ks! Whaht was dey thinkin'? Next thin' yoo know, they'll bee wahntin' to drink outta de Whaht water faountin's!
GLOBAL ZERO
A WORLD WITHOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
"They’re all on the talking points, basically telling black people that the white people are trying to take your health care from you."
Who is "they" and what the hell is he talking about?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Do not try to make sense of the criminally insane.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Now where have I heard those words before?
Is he saying the black representatives are telling the black people that? The same representatives who were in favor of the bill or is he saying the white people are telling the black people that? So where does the part come in where a white person calls a black representative an ugly word?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
and mailboxes?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The don't ask, don't tell policy was still law so we'll probably never know.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
WTF??? Last time I checked, this is -- or at least is supposed to be! -- a free country in which people are free to walk wherever they choose no matter what color their skin is. As Congressmen, Cleaver and Lewis had just as much right (if not more) to be there as the protesters did because that's where they work.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
..not-so-breibart doesn't live in the real universe so its impossible for him to see just how stupid he is with the remarks he makes.
And isn't I before E..shouldn't it be brietbart?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
English is a weird language.
And I don't think the name is English- my guess is German.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
pronounced. Try it with Boehner for a laugh. It's "Beaner."
"How dare they walk to work!"
Basically -- whether Breitbart himself consciously realizes it or not (and my guess is that he does not) -- his attitude is very much the same as that of a police officer who pulls someone over for "driving while black."
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
He doesn't even realize what he's saying. Or he doesn't care who knows how full of hate he is, as he thinks there are more of his kind than decent people.
the congress persons should have sneaked in the back way, with a phalanx of armed bodyguards surrounding them.
How offensive that Democrat women & Blacks weren't afraid of a bunch of semi-literate T-partiers.
I only wish Nancy had given the group the Bronx Cheer.
Has anyone ever pointed out the Iron Cross flag someone is carrying at 2:10? This is the first I've watched the entire video, so maybe it's old news.
I just noticed that, but I don't think it's an Iron Cross. It looks like another white supremacist symbol that's based on the swastika.
http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/neo_nazi_swas...
or
http://fotw.fivestarflags.com/za%7Dnaz.html
As someone pointed out below.
http://www.50states.com/flag/tnflag.htm
nevermind
It's the flag of South African White Supremacists. Vman's second link provides a match to the one in the video.
Keep ramping up the crazy. The more idiots like Brownshirt speak, the more they reveal themselves for who they really are.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
If the teabaggers aren't a bunch of racist assholes, then why should a black man have to worry about outraging them by walking on a public fucking street?
Breitbart: The congressional black caucus was provoking them by walking through that crowd!
Chain of Logic
The Congressional Black Caucus had to get to that building that day.
This is the building where they work, and do their job, as elected representatives.
Racial Slurs were thrown when they chose to walk this route.
Had they chosen to walk another route, no slurs would have been thrown.
Conclusion: The Congressional Black Caucus should have walked in a different direction to get into Congress because they provoked behavior from the protestors by being---WAITNOTHATSRACISTLETMETRYAGAINDELETEDELETEDELETE
Chain of Logic
The Congressional Black Caucus had to get to that building that day.
This is the building where they work, and do their job, as elected representatives.
Racial Slurs were thrown when they chose to walk this route.
Those throwing the racial slurs did this out of anger at the caucus members.
The slurs are anger-based slurs based on race.
Therefore, had the congress members been another race (white), such slurs would not have been thrown.
So that means that the Tea Partiers are racist---WAITOMGCRAPCRAPCRAPTHATMEANSIHAVETOPAYMONEYTOACHARITABLEORGANIZATIONTHATISHELPINGMAKEUPFORYEARSOFILLEGALINEQUALITYANDDISCRIMINATIONANDMYPRINCIPLESAREALLWRONGOHGODOHGODOHGODTHEHUMANITYDELETEDELETEDELETE
I believe what what we are witnessing here, at the end of the logic chain, is mental implosion.
You ever try screamin "Kill the Bill" at
coloredCongressmen with a jaw full of chaw withoutn a little stray juice gettin out?“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_cdbByTeNE
And rush would crap at 4:18...
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
shorter breitbrat: black people should know their place. there are places where they can walk, and places they can't. and white people are unable to control themselves when they are so taunted as they were by having to be close to black people. don't black people know better?
Obviously, they weren't racists until a group of African-Americans walked by them. The group then became racist at the site of those whose skin differed in hue from their own. Don't you get it?
Just like radio host Hal Turner worked for the FBI, it wouldn't surprise me if Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe were getting funding by the secret services too. We need more investigative journalism.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
So where in the video are the racist slurs, either on the picket signs or picked up on audio?
...any spitting either.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
So what do you figure the congressman was wiping off his coat? I doubt it was bird poop.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
spray.
sometimes when you say it, you spray it...
I think it's obvious that he didn't "hock a lugi" at him or anything like that.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
is...well, just an apologist for racists.
No one claimed that the "spitter-in-question" dredged up a lungful of tobbacco-stained putrid phlegm, rolled it around in his halitosis-ridden mouth, and then 'hocked' it in all its dripping glory at the Congressman; in case you aren't aware, human spit, or saliva, can be of a watery nature, requiring no 'lugi' element at all.
Or were you trying to say 'hocked a Luigi at him', which would, of course, be very noticeable on video, given the nature of the Mario brother in question.
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
Ten seconds into the video, it's evident something has happened when Emanuel Cleaver turned to someone in the crowd and then when he was walking away, wiping something off his face. Then, at around 1:25, he is back outside with security looking in the same direction he did earlier--at the crowd.
Notice the guy in the black shirt and white baseball cap. In the first part of the clip, he has both hands cupped while he..ahem...yells...as they walk in front of him. After Cleaver reappeared, the guy only uses one hand to yell. And as Cleaver continues to look at the crowd, he stops yelling and folds his arms over his chest, and starts looking away. I found that rather interesting.
"When profit comes up against morality, it's rare that profit loses."~Shirley Chisholm
When people were walking OUT of the Capitol building. This is quite obviously a video of them walking IN.
is that there are still repukes that insist that crowd was diverse and made up of all races, creeds and colors
what the hell were they looking at?
His logic sounds like the kind Glenn Beck uses but he can do it without a chalk board.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I have been wondering for 40 plus years when the tipping point will come for American voters to recognize who the Republicans represent. They have been appealing to the worse side through fear, racism, and greed all for the top one percent to keep control of ninety percent of the wealth and power in this country. Every time they open their mouths they reveal themselves but it doesn't seem to sink in to about half of the voters. I still have hope but not much.
...and that's how they get away with it. Nixon was an expert at it with Lee Atwater's help, and it's perpetuated with the Gingrich/Rove/Palin triumvirate. They hijack populist anger for their own cynical gain.
Every time a bell rings a republican votes against himself.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
For a while all of fox and Mika (of Morning Joe) had their doubts that it happened because it wasn't caught on film. But not one person that I heard speak doubted that if it was done it was a tea bagger who did it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
from East Texas was a FOX watcher despite the fact he might be blind.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I don't want to be any where near a blind man making a pipe bomb. The margin for error would seem to be fairly high.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That explains the odd places where he placed his bombs. And probably the reason they didn't explode.
Lots of people insist that these things never happen, based on exactly zero evidence, because they don't want it to be true.
It always reminds me of the Simpsons' Treehouse Of Horror ep where Homer was supposed to fix the nuclear plant's Y2K issues. When Lisa warns him of all the bad things that could happen, he says, "aw, Lisa, that couldn't be true, because if it were, I'd be much more terrified". The "logic" of racist apologists is identical.
That's true and funny too.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sounds like a song by Kansas
"All We Are Is Spit in the Wind..."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
best laugh I've had all day.
Scream all ya can, but don't spit until you see the whites of their eyes... "Battle of Capital-Hill"
I would of love to see the Congressman smack-down the redneck in self-defense. I admire his composure and hope the fundi was charged.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
You have to give the congressman a lot of credit for not going over and knocking the shit out of the guy who spat on him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
that turd was hiding behind the congressman's status as much as the congressman's status prevented him from giving said turd a mouthful of teeth. These fucking people sometimes, I swear to Dog....
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Or walk over the the spitter and pants him.
Is there an audible recording of a racial slur in this video? I didn't hear one.
I like how Breitbart is saying it would have been better for them to go around the protesters, rather than through them. If they had avoided the crowd, he would have been screaming that the pussy black Democrats were too scared to face the mighty Tea Party Patriots, and why are they so scared of what their constituents want? etc. I truly do not understand how the (mainly) conservative talking heads like Breitbart are able to constantly contradict themselves, to the point where it's truly laughable, and yet, continue to be invited back again and again to spew their blinded-by-hatred nonsensical bullsh*t.
"around the protesters"
...you may not know it but there is a tunnel that congressfolk usually go through to get to the capitol building.
nothing wrong with walking out side like they did but...
for "some reason" they chose to run the gauntlet.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Maybe they were proud to be able to accomplish that no other congress had been able to do for decades. Who the hell could blame them? I sure don't.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'm aware. Not sure how that would change his theoretical response.
I was using the language used by the blog post: "Breitbart suggests that John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver should have walked around the murmuring mob of nasty white folks rather than through them..."
My comment was in response to Milquetoast's comment.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So was mine.
Then *you people* would be saying "They scurried through the tunnels like rats. Are they afraid to face the people?"
*You people* make it so they can't win. FWIW, though I don't *you people* to understand it, they were walking on a public walkway.
*You people* are the ones pointing at rape victims saying "they asked for it." Because that's exactly what your comment connotes. "She could have worn a burqa, but for 'some reason' she chose to wear a miniskirt."
*You people* are destroying this country.
me-oww!
Those Capitol grounds are owned by us! Congresspeople should have the right to use any path they choose to get to the building to do their jobs without being assaulted.
Grow up.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I clearly said, (cut paste) Quote
"nothing wrong with walking out side like they did but"
(get some glasses)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
you trip over your own 'but.'
'But' implies that even though you magnanimously allow them permission, there was something wrong with the action of them walking in public anyway. And that's what you meant. That somehow it was wrong of them not to take the tunnel because there were yobs and bullies outside who want to claim it's not their fault that they name-called and spit on the the law makers, that somehow the act of them walking MADE the spitters spit.
"S/he made me do it!" isn't an acceptable excuse coming from a 3 year old. In this case, it's disingenuous bullshit, coming from a load of disingenuous, poor excuse-making bullshitters.
me-oww!
When the choice is between fighting or fleeing, you advocate fleeing. But running away won't get health care passed.
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!
Gauntlet? No it was more like a "Tardlet". Handsome looking crowd too with their flag shirts and racist signs, corn nut teeth and hydroencephelus heads, drooling and spitting, screaming their cancerous lungs out. GGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBERS.
teabaggers to behave like a bunch of goddamn animals.
Although I'm not surprised that you are making excuses for them.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
So the Congressmen should have parked right there in front of the Capitol then walked away, towards the Rayburn (or Cannon) House Office Building and waited for the subway?
You seem to be shedding IQ points by the second.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Not only is he invited back to cnn, he works for them and gets paid to say this stuff.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
In Breitbart's world, he shouldn't have been walking on the same sidewalk as all those white folks. He should have been heading to the back of the bus.
I don't want to be a downer folks, but the flag is just the State flag of Tennessee. I love the look on the spitter in question after a few moments of the police mulling-around him, arms crossed, pursed lips, possible load of chocolate pudding in his shorts...wait! that isn't pudding...
nevermind
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...is another man's way of gathering evidence.
An act of provocation? Give me a break.
So they should have gone up those stairs past that crowd of lowbrow morons with no way of documenting any acts of violence or racism?
Yeah, make it easy for the apologetics (yes, Mr. Breitbart, I'm talking to you) to deny any of it happened.
You guys sicken me.
A.B. coughing up the cash, lush moving to Costa Rica, or KKKlannity getting waterboarded?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
All 3 were just threatening us with a good time. ;o}
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All talk, no action.
Breitbart won't pay up any any sooner than Sean makes good on his offer to be waterboarded.
Just pray that Breibart doesn't use the same accountant as Hannity used for the Freedom Concert activity!
I don't think conservatives read Mad magazine. That was waaaaayyyy over their heads. They were reading Richy Rich, Baby Huey and Archie. Liberals were reading Mad and Famous Monsters of Filmland.
As far as Not So Brietbart, I think he looks at this as auditioning for CNN. He's at least as crazy, if not more, as Eric Erikson.
Interesting times to be an American. Briebart and Hannity should donate 10 Gs apiece for the spittle alone at .13 just to keep themselves honest. I only hear "Kill The Bill!" from these newly radical Americans .
I don't watch or listen to any right-wing claptrap. It's just too incendiary to hear there lies and trash.
$100,000 to the fund for impoverished inbred rednecks to attend the closest NASCAR event if Breitbart can produce a legitimate video of John Lewis doing or saying anything to provoke a racist attack at any teabagger event. Simply being non-white and walking through a public area doesn't count.
YUP! the Racist nazi KKK, White Supremacist lost this one. the uneducated White Trailer Trash look like real losers. Sure as hell pissed them off being taken to the American Public Wodd Shed and getting spanked ,HAHAHAHAHA!, These Rascist, are going NUTS First a BLACK Man gets ELECTED, aaahhh the poor White Trash didn't get another Brainless, Gutless, COWARD to lead them por White Trailer Trash. then the White Trailer Trash L O S T the HCR Vote again by a BLACKMAN aaaah the WHITE TRAILER TRASH feelings got taken to the PUBLIC Wood Shed AGIAN and SPANKED for the WHOLE World to see, then not only LOSING the HCR those PROUD BLACK MEN had the AUDACITY to Walk in PUBLIC and be Proud.
As you can see the Brain Dead breibart the FART is just SCHOCKED those BLACKS should be using the back door their just UPPITY and DO NOT know their Place but us WHOITE TRAILER TRASH will show them if if the TRASH has a IQ 2 (two) points below a ROCK.
But Kill the bill ain't racist. Of course only an idiot bets money based on what any one person out of a big crowd does, but just being against Democratic legislation is NOT a racial crime.
I'm not able to make out any racial slurs. What time in the video are they?
It sure looked like an extremists flag but after a long series of play and pauses I have to admit my first impression was wrong. I agree that that is the Tennessee State flag.
Friday afternoon at 3:34 pm eastern time on Cspan live coverage of the repugs in New Orleans Andrew Breitbart said the Acorn videos showed what was really happening and that more videos like that need to happen. His memory slipped again, he knows they are fake. And then he whined about eggs thrown at a moving bus in Nevada and he droned on. "Maybe I am drawn to hyperbole," Breitbart said. I would say he is drawn more to BS. He really is obnoxious.
They shouldn't have worn that dress......
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I swear to never hang around stupid, racist, uneducated Reslugs.
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