John Lewis hit with the ‘n-word’ by tea party demonstrators
This was posted by McClatchy Newspapers last night:
Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “[the n-word]” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, lawmakers said.
U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is questioned by reporters about an incident involving tea party demonstrators as he leaves a speech by President Obama to House Democrats on Saturday. Associated Press
“They were shouting, sort of harassing,” Lewis said. “But, it’s okay, I’ve faced this before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean.”
Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon office building across from the Capitol when protesters shouted “Kill the bill, kill the bill,” Lewis said.
“I said ‘I’m for the bill, I support the bill, I’m voting for the bill’,” Lewis said.
A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by saying “Kill the bill, then the n-word.”
“It surprised me that people are so mean and we can’t engage in a civil dialogue and debate,” Lewis said.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , D- Mo. , said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard “[the n-word].”
On Sunday morning, Republicans denounced the language. “What you had out there yesterday was a handful of people who got stupid,” said Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Steele, who is African-American, denied that the language used by Republicans during the health care debate fueled the harsh language outside the Capitol on Saturday.
On Friday, the last two Georgia congressmen chose sides on health care: John Barrow (D-Savannah) announced he would voted against it. Sanford Bishop (D-Albany) said he would vote yes.
Over the weekend, the Atlanta Tea Party in essence took out a classified ad, soliciting primary opposition to Bishop:
“Despite thousands of phone calls, trips to his offices in Georgia and Washington, D.C., and countless polls that show Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare, Congressman Bishop is completely ignoring the will of the people of Georgia who elected him,” said Atlanta Tea Party organizer Julianne Thompson.
“The organizers and members of the Atlanta Tea Party are looking for a strong Democratic primary candidate as well as Republican candidates that will listen to the voters, and represent their interest, instead of special interests,” she continued.
Bishop already has two Republican opponents: Mike Keown and Rudy Adams.
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DMB
March 21st, 2010
11:04 am
Typical of the hatred of the GOP. Just sick.
tc
March 21st, 2010
11:05 am
some tea partiers b!te!
R.Barnes
March 21st, 2010
11:11 am
Lewis is the biggest phony there is! Racist works both ways!
MrAttitude
March 21st, 2010
11:14 am
Why am I not surprised? The whole Tea Party concept is about hate. The attitudes that have been shown since the inception of the racist party has been brewing for a long time. So now many in America are “shocked” at the behavior? Just look at the crowds! And the GOP has chosen to hitch their wagon to this group. Then again, its a perfect match, because both groups are similar to each other.
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:14 am
Come on, that was a dozen scumbag idiots out of thousands. This story was printed for a reason, to equate the civil rights movement to this health care bill. Just another example of liberal media bias. If this bill passes or not, it is nothing compared to the heros that lead the movement of the 1960s. This is about expanding government and entitlements and nothing else. Hello DMB, the hatred of the GOP? Where were you from 2000-2008? Speak about hatred, there was plenty of it thrown the GOP’s way by liberals. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.
WeWantToKnow
March 21st, 2010
11:15 am
Mr. Cleaver, is your video different from these?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPoJGNhWB-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOwsuwmzZw
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:15 am
Mrattitude, you are generalizing people and doing exactly what you are attempting to be against.
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:19 am
If the libs were out protesting, I would bet my life that the dozen or so idiots who throw hateful and inappropriate slurs would never make the front page of the AJC.
(Gasp!) Clutch the pearls!
March 21st, 2010
11:24 am
Racism in the tea party? WHAT??! The people the GOP wants to manipulate — I mean, embrace — are racist??? I’m shocked . . . SHOCKED, I tell you!!!
“Tea party patriots” is just another name for the Council of Conservative Citizens. The KKK by any other name still stinks.
firstborn40
March 21st, 2010
11:31 am
we need healthcare reform…big pharma and all it’s cronies will no longer be able to rape americans…if they really cared, why is this an issue in the first place, they should have lobbied for legislation that made it easier for those without the money and seniors to have health care and and access to cheaper meds….stop taking from the poor and giving to the rich!
what have you done with all the money you’ve made so far! where is your accountability!!!???
vote yes for healthcare reform…the future generation can’t hate what the bush era has done for their parents anymore than what the obama era will do for them…at least in their childhood they will have access to medical care that will ensure them to be here in the future to hate!….unlike what has happened in the past!
president obama is fixing what caused him to loose his mother at an early age…and i’m not mad at him!
republicans…grow up…you are always against anything that will help the masses…if it weren’t for the masses….you wouldn’t be where you are today….trying to protect something that you received from devious and unmentionable ways!
your reign is up….why can’t you learn to play with others?!!!!
td
March 21st, 2010
11:35 am
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. …
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.” Thomas Jefferson
typical crappy ajc story
March 21st, 2010
11:36 am
There are racists in both parties and don’t even say there is not. It is racist to say somone is racist because you don’t like Obama. I dislike Obama and Pelosi evenly. It has nothing to do with race, they are both idiots
jack
March 21st, 2010
11:37 am
Far right wackos have always used words to distort. In the 60s, the way you make it OK for black students to be denied entrance to a STATE school, was “states rights”. That sounded better than “we’re racists”.
Now its to call the ability of normal people to PURCHASE health insurance, “ObamaCare” so they can tie it into racism and pretend socialism.
Right wingers distort, know they distort, and WANT to distort.
Julius C.
March 21st, 2010
11:37 am
It sounds like a Democrat Party dirty trick to gain sympathy.
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:37 am
Polls show a majority of Americans are against this. Your reign is up in November. Better enjoy the entitlements now, come November of 2012, GOP is gonna run all over this guy. It is gonna Reagen/Mondale all over again. Obama will take very few states.
MrAttitude
March 21st, 2010
11:40 am
Gordon,
Just what am I generalizing? I am speaking specifically about the team party. Anyone who follows the tea party knows what’s their true mission. I see you did not address the comments that were made by members of the group. Does that mean you condone their behavior. Just what does that type of language have to do with health care reform when racial slurs are spoken to members of the house? If you want to sit in your chair and believe that what they are doing is their civic duty, then you need to stop drinking the tea. And it has nothing to do with liberal bias, which is what many conservatives scream when they have been called out.
Ok, humor me. When many on the left protested the war when GWB was president, how often was he accosted with racial slurs?
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:41 am
The Dems have never distorted anything. You need a history lesson. It was not Republicans who were against the civil rights movement. Hello? Southern Democrats were all over it.
Logic
March 21st, 2010
11:43 am
Everyone try to use some common sense. There are morons on both sides of this issue. Just because one person yells something stupid does not mean all tea party people are racist. Likewise when someone like Al Sharpton says something stupid it does not mean he speaks for all Blacks. The health care system needs reform. Everyone agrees on that….the question is whether this legislation is the answer.
John Lewis = "Unificator"
March 21st, 2010
11:45 am
The great thing about America is you don’t have to be a racist to hate idiots and other self-righteous imbeciles like John Lewis.
See, John Lewis is a “unificator,” someone we can ALL unite in hating because of what a disgrace, fake and divider he is.
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:45 am
Those idiot dozen or so who were shouting racial slurs do not represent the majority of the Tea Party movement, and you know it. The Tea Party is about limited government and limited taxation.I happen to believe the Feds should operate on the least dollar amount possible. That is all. Bush spent, Obama spends. This is not the function of the American government to make sure everybody has everything they need. A little self reliance is in order.
mcoloradus
March 21st, 2010
11:46 am
how easily we excuse the extreme and hateful actions of those we agree with, how easily we dismiss the claims of those who hate and disagree with us as unfounded. the entire debate has turned into a class and racial warfare excercise that has really polarized all parties involved. the taking of middle class older white Americans wealth and entitlements they have earned and supposedly diluting their access to health is the argument provided by these extremists.i have been in this country long enough to tell that without any doubt the outcome of these changes will result in one thing only -business as usual-the insurance and drug companies will reap even more profits as they will find a way to circumvent whatever the government does thru bribery .The issue in this country in continued concentration of wealth in tthe hands of a very few that will result in the continued exportation of jobs out of this country on a massive scale. By the time we awake from our sleep the only industries that haven’t been outsourced in this will be that of health care and incarceration
Gordon
March 21st, 2010
11:47 am
To answer your question, we would not know how many people screamed racial slurs at Bush, it would never be published. That is my point.
Keep doing this GOP
March 21st, 2010
11:47 am
Have you ever seen any African-Americans at these so called Tea Party rallys? Nope. The polls also show the more people find out what is actually in the bill, the more they like it. Heck, 70% of the people like the public option. We will see what happens in November.And in 2012 , who are the R’s going to run against the President? Limbaugh? Palin? Paul? Felix the Cat? , Perdue? And while we are at it, lets see more GOP members posing with big checks from the stimulus after bragging they voted against it.
Yevette
March 21st, 2010
11:48 am
The tone of the people who do not support any policies of President Obama is very sad. It doesn’t have anything to do with whether he is a good president but the fact that he is not a white man. Shame on you Republican Party, shame on you Tea Party!!!
td
March 21st, 2010
11:49 am
This dumb a** political class, be it left or right, that we have allowed to gain power needs to be woke up and realize that WE THE PEOPLE are sick of them. We are sick of the right taking care of business and not WE THE PEOPLE. We are sick of the left taking care of the unions and the lawyers and not WE THE PEOPLE. They live in the world of lobbyist and big money contributors and forget about the rest of us and think we will forget about the crap they do and the bills they pass. WE THE PEOPLE will not forget about this vote and the votes in the future. The politicians have woke WE THE PEOPLE from our lathargic rest and we are ready to take this country back. It will not be an easy fight and might and there might have to be some blood shed but we are ready to bring back our freedoms and liberties and will do what it takes to keep them.
Riordan
March 21st, 2010
11:50 am
Polls show Americans are about evenly split on this issue. The system is working like it’s supposed to. No matter which side wins, we’re all Americans and I hope people remember that. It’s not “life, liberty, and my may or the highway.”
oldmactech
March 21st, 2010
11:51 am
Similar to the bozo in CA that couldn’t figure out how to turn his Prius off…probably made it all up or at the very least embellished it.
JB
pw
March 21st, 2010
11:53 am
First of all, this public outcry is not about healthcare reform. It’s about the fact that we have a President who is Black.
Secondly, only people who have never had to go without health insurance are against this bill. It’s not perfect but sometimes you have to start with duct tape and take the full repairs on in steps. When you are paying $500+ for health insurance for your family that you can’t take advantage of until you’ve satifsfied a $3,600 deductible and your daughter has just fallen off of her bike and needs to go to the doctor but you as a parent hesitate because you realize that despite paying $500 a month you will still have to pay for this visit our of pocket, that is when you know we need healthcare reform.
Straight Arrow
March 21st, 2010
11:53 am
“if it weren’t for the masses….you wouldn’t be where you are today”. Right out of the Marx-Lenin handbook. That is the view that goes beyond mere socialism. However, it is a good time to push that agenda because the Republican Party has no sense of where they want to be. It is a sad situation when the opposition accepts with open arms hate, mythology and pseudo-science to try to assemble a constituency. I fear for the future of this country.
tipster
March 21st, 2010
11:53 am
Yes, Gordon, you are right, Southern Democrats were against the civil rights movement. And where did most of those Southern Democrats end up?
Ace
March 21st, 2010
11:54 am
Most white neocons use the word at least once a week, just not in public.
Cutty
March 21st, 2010
11:56 am
Tea Partiers finally got religion when a black man was elected to the Presidency. If they were for limited government so much they would’ve rose up when the Department of Homeland Security was formed, when Bush admitted to wiretapping the conversations of Americans was done, and when Medicare Part D was passed. Its all because a black man is the head of the country, nothing more. Hence the calls that he isn’t American.
rsclinks
March 21st, 2010
11:57 am
Dear Mr. Steele, that “handful of people who got stupid” you referred to is your base. And it’s more than a handful and they didn’t just “get stupic” they’ve been stupid all along. Wake up and realize that you are nothing more than a token puppet to throw a smokescreen in front of this racist hate-filled party.
Ace's Reality Check
March 21st, 2010
12:04 pm
Ace @ 11:54 am -
Actually, NO, stereotyping, race-baiting simpleton we do not.
However, if the proverbial shoe fits…..
MrAttitude
March 21st, 2010
12:05 pm
I see my point was totally ignored. What does the use of racial slurs have to do with health care reform? And let’s not even speak of polls – we all know how they can be slanted to prove their point. I see you didnt mention about the polls that favor health care reform. Hmm, wonder why.
Gordon, we do agree on this point – Bush spent and President Obama is spending. All presidents will spend, no matter what party they are members.
And to pull out the Civil Rights/GOP card – how classic. And what has the GOP done since then other than attempt to pass laws to erode the same act they “championed” back in the 60’s
td
March 21st, 2010
12:06 pm
Cutty, Why do you think the dems have been gaining power since 2006? Was is because the Republicans acting like with the big government approach and spending like crazy? The 2006 and 2008 elections were all about individual conservative America sending the republicans a message. The dems were given a chance and Obama was out there telling everyone he was going to be for the people and change the way Washington worked. Well it did not take long for everyone to figure out that was a bunch of crap spread. Obama are his actions have resulted in all these individuals to we trusted the Republicans and they hosed us, we gave the dems a chance and Obama lied to us now it is time for us to stand up and take back our country. So yes, Obama is the reason for the Tea Party movement but no it is not for the reasons you libs want to attach to it.
Not Going To Use My Usual Name
March 21st, 2010
12:09 pm
Why, *why* do my posts never show up?
Brass coconuts
March 21st, 2010
12:10 pm
Bill Clinton was a fiscal conservative.
Troothsayer
March 21st, 2010
12:16 pm
Thank you “we want to know”….of course it’s the same way to stir up something non existent and make it into a civil rights march/issue. I surprised Hosea didn’t show up with a brick mark on his head. From the grave…….
Dagnabbit
March 21st, 2010
12:19 pm
Consider the source and then determine what level of intelligence it takes to call someone such names.
JLD
March 21st, 2010
12:19 pm
South Carolina never did except the lost of the civil war and desegragation. Pockets of hatered for Black Americans is still apart of every day life down here in the South —–it’s just below the surface. Blacks are the only immigrants who didn’t want to come to this country!!!!!!
aMan
March 21st, 2010
12:19 pm
I am amazed how many of my fellow citizens have no idea what they are protesting against.
Nor do they realize how the Insurance Companies in an oligopole with the big health care providers manage to suck them dry over the course of their lives.
A simple basic public option to prevent people from dying b/c they have no money – and everybody is in it, so everybody chips in a bit – would be a sound bases. If you want more for your personal comfort or whatever you could buy a private additional insurance. No problem. But this public option does what the insurances do too: Spreading the risk of randomly occuring desease over all the costumers. Spreading it over all Americans would make no difference, except the price goes down.
Oh so many poor people would be entitled for life rescuing stuff? Well, yeah it makes more sense to pay private, doesn’t it? A big chunk of your payment goes to your agent, into marketing for the company, to lawyers, is taken for pure profit and the rest is what they give back to you for care. Or deny it with the lawyers they payed from your money. Think again.
And I am especially fed up with some conservative positions: If life is so precious that abortion should be a felony everywhere, why do you fight to keep your anti-wrinkle money yours and deny the life rescuing heart operation to a probably-not-so-white (come on, this is what it boils down to) teenager? But yeah, good job on killing one of the soundest initiatives of reform in a decade with your agitations.
- Comes in handy that most of the public has a joke education, again thanks to you rich conservative people.
Aquagirl
March 21st, 2010
12:26 pm
td, I wonder why folks found the ballot box appropriate expression in 2006, only to abandon it for screaming slurs in 2010? Nice try at dodging, though.
MBW
March 21st, 2010
12:29 pm
It doesn’t matter if the GOP leaders “denounce” it. Everyone knows that those kind of people are welcome in the Republican party. Not all Republicans are racist, but you can darn well bet that most racists are Republicans.
Faye Goolrick
March 21st, 2010
12:30 pm
AJC: RE the racial slurs hurled at John Lewis as he was DOING HIS JOB in Congress — how about some ORIGINAL, first-hand reporting on this issue? This is an appalling verbal assault (and almost physical, lots of jostling and crowding) on a legendary Georgia Congressman because of the COLOR of his SKIN, and you are giving us a CLIP JOB of second-hand reporting? You can’t even bother to provide your Georgia readers with some original reporting? Who were these people, who funded them, where are they from, were they armed, do they have criminal records, are they members of the KKK, John Birch, other violence-prone organizations, do they work for insurance companies, do any of them live in Georgia, etc. How about some enterprise reporting here?
Vote For Pedro
March 21st, 2010
12:30 pm
Why Republicans will spend endless trillions to keep me alive from terrorists but not from cancer? The cancer is WAY more likely to get me than some terrorist is.
Keith
March 21st, 2010
12:32 pm
Watched the youtube and didn’t hear what Lewis and crew are claiming. I’ll believe it when I hear it.
say what?
March 21st, 2010
12:35 pm
what does the healthcare bill have to do with calling Lewis the n-word? It doesn’t it is people showing their true self. People who have don’t want other people to have what they have. thus thr rich get richer, and the middle class sinks closer to the poor. Unfortunately, the middle class is trying to keep others down just to feel good about itself. Just stupid because the rich could care less about any of us, they just want our 401(k) investments to make the divide even greater.
And just like dumb lower class humans we keep falling for their tricks everytime. Tea party is doing the bidding for the elite, but you are only hurting yourself.
Lynn
March 21st, 2010
12:40 pm
The Tea Party started it’s National Convention
by stating that we need to put into place a literacy
test used during the 40s-60s to stop black people from voting back in place.
That was racist in itself- The Tea Party is the new KKK
if they weren’t the GOP wouldn’t be trying to distance
themselves. I’m not A GOP fan but they dontt agree with the
racist ephilets. The bottom line on healthcare is the
what both partys stand for- republicans are always for Big Business and foreign issues and
the Democrats are for domestic policy- neither are
wrong it’s just how they are expressing those ideals at this time.
Get rid of all of Congress/Senate and replace with common, ordinary people!!
E.S. Roberts
March 21st, 2010
12:45 pm
N-words come in all colors and races and surely the ones that called Mr. Lewis a N-word are one themselves. If you tea partiers want your country back then fine, pay me for the free labor that you owe my ancestors and that I have inherited and also since I have white blood in my family tree, give me my part of the wealth that the white side inherited and I will gladly go back to the mother land.
bank walker
March 21st, 2010
12:46 pm
…..and black people aren’t racists. Blacks are the most racist group of people, fact!
Americus Jacket
March 21st, 2010
12:48 pm
I abhor the calling of ANY names. It’s bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
So some knucklehead spewed venom at a politician whom he/she thinks is hurting our country. It’s unseemly but not unexpected.
But “It surprised me that people are so mean and we can’t engage in a civil dialogue and debate,” Lewis said. I agree with this and wonder why Lewis supports a plan to do just this by passing a Senate bill he does not really believe is good for this country to avoid one. hmmmm….
Harold
March 21st, 2010
12:50 pm
Everybody knows now what the tea baggers are really like. They are just haters plain and simple.
I'm back - GA PEACH
March 21st, 2010
12:51 pm
Tea Partiers used the “N” word . . Pelosi called Tea Partiers . . . “Nazis” . . POINT MADE!
Dan Deacon
March 21st, 2010
12:54 pm
If you look at Obama’s past, it’s easy to verify how he supported federally funded programs for abortion. He supports abortion as demonstrated in the healthcare bill that funds abortion. It portrays our country as one of murderers of our own people. No True American Citizens should every be forced to pay for abortions and that’s exactly (while only one terrible, destructive component of this bill) what this bill does.
Obama & his cronies like John Lewis (who will be voted out of office next term) is a disgrace to our nation and is destroying it daily with policy like this. After today’s vote, Obama should be impeached. Continued daily protest on the Ga capitol and Washington white house steps is needed to take our country back and to regain our freedoms intended by our forefathers.
Perhaps we could put Obama in the white house yard picking up trash, so he can keep his group insurance to show compassion for this idiot.
Tea Party
March 21st, 2010
12:54 pm
Tea Party has nothing to do with racism…unless of course, it is freeing blacks and poor whites from the slavery of welfare and other government entitlement programs. We are tired of our tax dollars being used for entitlement programs while the country is bankrupt…we are owned by China, Japan, other Asian governments and the middle east…they hold our debt and will demand payment soon….blacks and poor whites don’t care about this…they don’t care who their owner is…right?
Farsider
March 21st, 2010
12:56 pm
Tea Party= Racism.
Angry, aging racist baby-boomers. Now that they’re about to lose this fight, the mask has come off completely. We’re seeing them as they truly are. Ugly, isn’t it?
William
March 21st, 2010
1:00 pm
If you voice your opinion against the Great Komrade Obama, you must be a racist!
All Hail Obama!
Next step: End Presidential Term Limits! Barack Hussein Obama for LIFE!!!
I call BS
March 21st, 2010
1:02 pm
It’s just Lewis and other blacks in congress just trying to stir up BS to justify their position on the bill. They are saying “See what kind of mean and irrational people we have to put up with?”
There’s gonna be a rebellion at the polls in November the likes of which this country hasn’t seen in ages……And I’m gonna do my part at the ballot box as well.We need to vote all these morons out.
td
March 21st, 2010
1:02 pm
Aquagirl, I am personally sick of both parties, special interest groups that only care about their interest at whatever prize, and with no consideration of consequences of the country as a whole, big business that is run by bean counters only concerned with stock price and not corporate responsibility to the country. I am really sick in tired of this crazy movement trying to force political correctness on everyone in this country. I listened to the you tube videos and did not hear the N word. I personally would not use the word but you know what we have the right to free speech in this country and if they choose to call someone that then so be it. This whole movement of political correctness saying we can are not allowed to express ourselves in a in manner that we want is total unpatriotic and just plain BS. I did not like it when the left was out there burning the flag and falsely accusing our men and women in the military of intentionally killing women and children overseas but they have that right. I will defend them of that right with every breath in my body. The government and WE THE PEOPLE have no right to tell anyone what they should feel or believe and we sure as hell do not have a right to tell them they can not express their feelings.
Obama Rules
March 21st, 2010
1:05 pm
Typical of the republican party, angry at the new healthcare bill! Too bad—all these rich people will have to pay a lot more taxes and they don’t like it!!! Now, the minorities can finally get free healthcare like everyone else!
Troothsayer
March 21st, 2010
1:08 pm
And isn’t it funny that these same “people” who cannot afford health insurance have no problem with a cell phone bill. What they do have a problem with is paying for things that can be taken from those of us who work hard for the things we have and sacrifice for our children. But lots of them don’t mind buying cigarettes and owning pets that are chained outside to their trailers/apartments/crack houses !!!
Dagnabbit
March 21st, 2010
1:10 pm
I don’t call myself an “R” or a “D” because I would be ashamed to have it known that I support either. I will vote for ethics and morals, lacking a choice I will vote NOTA. NooX Noodeal.
tea party
March 21st, 2010
1:10 pm
Blacks like jesse jackson,al sharpton want to keep racism alive because without it they are just another liberal democrat.The remarks were made by liberal activist planted to bring race into the issue.
Dawgs88
March 21st, 2010
1:15 pm
Good to see those socialist Democrats giving Congress back to the Republicans. This year’s elections will be interesting.
td
March 21st, 2010
1:21 pm
Troothsayer, Also how many of the non payers of healthcare have cable TV and high speed internet service in their trailers/apartments/crack houses? Also, how many people have been on welfare for years and continue to have one child after another? This is really about the liberals telling their supporters you do not have to be responsible for your actions. We will keep allowing you to make bad decisions and we will pay for the consequences of those decisions. You do not have to get an educations, you do not have to work a job, you can keep having children out of wedlock, you can drink and do drugs every night and have unprotected sex and we will not hold you responsible. You can sit around all day long and eat chips, meats, sweets, drink beer and not exercise and someone will pick up the tab when you get into your 40 or 50’s for your lack of self control. Yes, the nanny state is about to take the next step and soon everyone will not have to take any responsibility from birth to grave.
Haywood Jablome
March 21st, 2010
1:33 pm
the n-word.
who said? he whose name cannot be spoken?
use the word! expose the ugliness and the hate of the tea party phonies!
phil
March 21st, 2010
1:33 pm
All of you should have been in church this morning, rather than trying to one up each other on a newspaper article. Shame on all right wing wackos, give away liberals, tea partiers, move on. orgs, conservatives, democrats & republicans.
Darrell
March 21st, 2010
1:34 pm
Go watch the video’s and see if yiou hear anything like Lewis claims. It’s an old trick, claim misbehavior by your opponents and try and change the topic of debate.
WAW
March 21st, 2010
1:42 pm
I don’t care if the Corporate Republican runs the Pope, himself, for dog catcher, I will never ever vote for any Republican again. Yes, the next elections will be interesting. Nixon’s Southern Strategy has run it full course and the segregationist are right out front again. Tea Party Atlanta will be handing our axe handles any day!
Steve
March 21st, 2010
1:55 pm
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944,”
Tea partyers don’t have a lock on racism, there’s plenty to go around.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
1:55 pm
WAW – Your clarity is completely correct on this one. The Southern Stategy has run its full course. The sad part is that alot of people do not even know what you are saying. They watch Fixed News and honestly believe that they get “news”. They listen to right wing politicians/tea baggers and think they have the “holy grail of thought”. It is mind numbing. I have always believed in civil discourse and the right to disagree. That crowd has no , and I mean no, idea of what that is about. Shout, stomp your feet, and call anybody who disagrees with you and idiot. The new American politics – God help us.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
1:55 pm
should have read – “an idiot”
Diehard
March 21st, 2010
1:57 pm
Lewis is still marching. Give it up, man. You hear the N word because you listen for it. Its your excuse to do whatever you want, no matter the cost to future generations. And you did it again – diverted attention from your duty to your whole reason for being. That is racism, pure and simple.
Alabama Communist
March 21st, 2010
1:59 pm
Meanwhile in a amazing turnround! Former Det of the OJ trial fame Mark Furman reminded Tea Party leaders that the N word would have no affect on it’s future
AH
March 21st, 2010
2:02 pm
I’ve met John several times and believe me it is not beneath him to make up stories.
Noggin
March 21st, 2010
2:03 pm
Did anyone other than Mr. Cleaver hear the word?
In the ’60s, people did not like how they were being treated and they took to the streets. Now, people do not like the treatment that they are receiving and they are marching in the streets. It’s frustrating to think that you are not heard. By the way, it may be different people marching but it is not just one race.
td
March 21st, 2010
2:05 pm
Jim and Steve, What in the world has the left wing been doing for the past 8 years? OMG you talk about Fox and Talk Show host but the left wing has MSNBC, CNN, CNBC and all three networks and the overwhelming majority of the newspapers. I guess you are going to come back now and tell me that they are neutral? Get a freaking clue and be a little more honest. Both political parties suck and neither is looking out for the real American people, just their own special interest groups.
td
March 21st, 2010
2:07 pm
I meant to address WAW and Jim not Steve.
tim
March 21st, 2010
2:13 pm
Too F****** bad John Lewis. Yoy didn’t have a problem race baiting during the Atlanta Mayoral race. Just callin a spade a spade.
tea party
March 21st, 2010
2:17 pm
yes we are racist and we will come in first second and third in the nov elections.
tim
March 21st, 2010
2:18 pm
Too f****** bad John Lewis. You didn’t have a problem race baiting during the Atlanta Mayoral campaign. Just callin spade a spade!
TIm
March 21st, 2010
2:22 pm
Let’s pass a federal law that prohibits the use of the n-word for everyone…and that includes rap music. In my lifetime, for every one time I’ve heard it from the lips of a white person, I’ve heard it 10 times from the lips of African-Americans.
Rick
March 21st, 2010
2:26 pm
The N-word Lewis should be worried about is “NOT” as in Congress is not listening to the people. They are lying about the full costs of this bill. They collect revenues for 10 years and provide only 6 years of healthcare! The next decade will bring huge deficits to the US. We cannot continue providing free everything. Half the people in the US do not pay taxes or at least significant taxes. The top 25% of taxpayers pay almost all the taxes for the rest of the population. The well, like jobs, is simply running dry. We continue to encourage illegal aliens to come to this country while low wage, low skilled jobs will not be available. US citizens will need those jobs as we continue to outsource jobs to low wage countries and import foreign workers on H1-B and other visas.
Our politicians have lost touch with the American public and it some cases reality. John Lewis is just that sort of politician.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
2:26 pm
td – I will agree with you on one point – both parties have issues. Both parties can be too party oriented at times. I will not disagree with that. After years of being involved in politics, I just reach another conclusion than you. I am old enough to remember when Nixon began the southern strategy. I am old enough to remember when the Georgia senator, Richard Russell to LBJ that by voting for the Civil Rights Bill, LBJ had lost the south to the democrats for the next 100 yrs. And guess what, that is what happened.
As for Fox news – it is the only “news organization” in America that has a major former leader of a political party as the head of news- Roger Ailes. Many of us remember him as the absolute Republican guru of propaganda and political dirty tricks ( and yes both parties do that too) – just Fox that finds one and puts him in charge.
You may not like what you hear/see on the other networks. That is your right and it is other people’s right to disagree with you. And it should be done in a far more civil manner than it is today. One of the things that I thought I fought for as a young infantry sgt. in Vietnam was just that – the right to disagree without being disagreeable. So, while you think people who disagree with you should “get a clue” as you put it, some of us believe we not only have the clue but a better solution.
South GA Conservative
March 21st, 2010
2:26 pm
I will believe this when I hear it on tape- I wouldn’t believe Lewis if he told me what time it was- he will lie to promote his agenda.
A lot of people are on here lying about the Tea Party because it wants limited government, and they prefer a nanny state. If they can’t win the battle of ideas, they will lie and name-call.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
2:27 pm
should be – Richard Russell told LBJ
Barry
March 21st, 2010
2:32 pm
Noggin and South GA Conservative hit it: Despite the dozens of media representatives and all the TV cameras there at the protests, no one has yet produced a single, independent example of a single protester yelling the “n”-word – let alone the dozens we’re led to believe were there. Cleaver, Lewis, et.al, have an ax-grinder’s interest in portraying their political opponents as “racist.”
Mentos
March 21st, 2010
2:36 pm
As a person of color I have witness the hatred of whites and the use of the C word and other racial epithets among many African Americans. My co-worker has a Asian wife and he is black, his daughter hates Blacks because of the racial slurs she is call. Half N, slanted eye N, N, you guessed it. Also bigots are in the Democratic party, go to south ga and find out for yourself.
Listen to W_*K AM 1&80 if you want to hear bigotry. Bigotry goes both sides and there are members of the Democratic party that were in the KKK.
itstrue
March 21st, 2010
2:38 pm
“In my lifetime, for every one time I’ve heard it from the lips of a white person, I’ve heard it 10 times from the lips of African-Americans.”
I hate it when I hear black people use this word, but mostly because it’s a way of putting each other down, lowering expectations for themselves. It also makes them look bad. For their own good, they should put it to rest.
But I hate it much, much more when I hear white people use this word. When they say it, it’s only meant to “put them in their place” with that whiteboy superiority that is so often taken as “real America” whereas everyone else is an impostor, traitor, or a second-class citizen. A lot of people don’t realize the moral assumptions that go along with being a white male.
I say this as a certified whiteboy myself.
I’m always surprised that people still use that word. To use it on a US Representative is just plain terrible. No excuses. Disagree with Lewis all you want, go ahead and dislike the guy, but he’s an elected official.
There’s no need for new laws on this, but there’s got to be a basic code of decency, or else we’re headed towards some really, really bad times.
This is politics. The Democrats are playing by the rules, as complicated, even unfair as they may be. There is no conspiracy, no socialist coup going on. There are sides, and one side is going to lose. That’s all. You win some, you lose some.
None of that makes a case to be made for violence and intimidation like we’re seeing today at the Capitol. That’s not a movement. That’s a mob, plain and simple.
Dr. J
March 21st, 2010
2:38 pm
Just a way for the Democrats to discredit the protesters. They can’t do it with logic. They make this race stuff up every time they’re against the wall.
MrSmalls
March 21st, 2010
2:39 pm
Tea Parties are for Girls!
I'm back - GA PEACH
March 21st, 2010
2:44 pm
You cannot do away with lifetime max and pre-existing conditions while at the same time subsidize premiums and allow everybody (including their dependents regardless of whether they are disabled or a student) to have coverage up to the age of 26 and think that is will be deficit neutral. Those people who keep arguing that people fought against Medicare when it was implemented and now just ask those on Medicare if they like it are those people who have preached against Medicare . . . like Cynthia Tucker. Rest assured . . .this is just a ploy to get all the illegals covered to assure that voting block in the next Presdential election.
Kappa
March 21st, 2010
2:47 pm
Gordon,
do you know your history…Southern Democrats were all over it.? Those Southern Democrats were the foundation of this Republican Party. When the Civil War was over, and the Confederacy destroyed, a deep resentment among white Southern citizens toward Republicans helped propel the Democratic Party to a majority in Congress by the 1870s and bring an end to Reconstruction. The Democrats were now the party of states rights, the party of the South, and would remain that way until the mid-1960s. Their dominance in Southern politics would give rise to the phrase “Solid South”. This sounds nothing like the Democratic of today…just switch the names around. Get the picture?
Mentos
March 21st, 2010
2:49 pm
itstrue, I agree with you the word serves not purpose but to divide but you have to realize some people of that generation still pimp the civil rights movement for their advantage to take advantage of white guilt. Jessie Jackson is a multi-millionaire because of his pimping.
White guilt is to pay for generations of past dreadful deeds to blacks and non-blacks are to step aside and take you punishment. This message is in Barack Obama’s ideology based on liberation theology specifically black liberation theology, preached to him for 20 years.
This is why everytime someone opposed Barack, they are racist, KKK, neo-Nazi, etc. Blacks kill more blacks than the klan, its an internal problem, not being solved by the religious and political establishment because they are to server themselves and not the people.
Aquagirl
March 21st, 2010
2:50 pm
Yowza, td, get some therapy. You think disapproval of the n-word is “political correctness?” Or that Rep. Lewis is lying because your in-depth examination via YouTube is superior to ACTUALLY BEING THERE? Your lack of self-awareness is sadly comical.
Honestly, try medication. Seething anger makes Teapartiers like you far more of a medical burden than the mythical legion of junk food welfare recipients.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
2:54 pm
Some of us get it Kappa. It is also known as re-packaging the same product or brand. The Southern Strategy lives on and on and on. The Enegizer Bunny has nothing on this sad story. The trick is getting people to A. See and B. Believe what they see. Do not hold your breath.
Mentos
March 21st, 2010
2:54 pm
Kappa U have it partially correct. The Republican party was founded to abolish slavery. There first candidate was Abe Lincoln. White Republicans help found the NAACP. Republicans also help start black colleges in the South.
The Democrats have done a great job of blinding America. People don’t know their history, Democrats instituted JIM CROW and SEGREGATION.
will fight for liberty
March 21st, 2010
2:56 pm
why do all these racist dirty serpents get to post comments and i don’t!!!!!!!!
will fight for liberty
March 21st, 2010
2:58 pm
i will fight you dirty racist with my last breath! i will not be intimidated!!
Jim
March 21st, 2010
2:59 pm
Aquagirl – You have touched the “third rail” re: tea baggers and the repubs. One of their own, Lindsey Graham of S.C. said last year that he feared the Republican Party was becoming ” the angry white guy party” – his words, not mine. I would simply remove the word “becoming” and insert the word “is”. So much time spent of anger and real hate speech. The beat goes on.
Mentos
March 21st, 2010
3:00 pm
U also forget there were two factions the Republican party in the 60’s. The Rockerfellers and Goldwaters. Goldwater stood by states rights which is why some Democrats jumped sides. However Goldwater voted for the civil rights bill of 1957, and white Republicans voted overwhelming for the civil rights bill of 1964, Democrats did not. LOOK IT UP. Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Ill help write the bill. YOU can lead a ****** to the water but you can’t make them learn nothing.
The Original House Version:
Democratic Party: 153-96 (61 percent-39 percent)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80 percent-20 percent)
Democratic Party: 46-22 (68 percent-32 percent)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82 percent-18 percent)
The Senate Version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63 percent-37 percent)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80 percent-20 percent)
Switches in position:
“Yea” to “Nay”: Earl Wilson (R-IN), Bob Wilson (R-CA), and Charlotte T. Reid (R-IL)
“Nay” to “Yea”: John Jacob Rhodes (R-AZ), J. Edward Hutchinson (R-MI), and Charles Weltner (D-GA).
Sandra
March 21st, 2010
3:01 pm
Did anyone read pw’s comment? Please read the second point. THAT is why people want healthcare reform. The Tea Party should be ashamed of the people who represent them at these rallies.
benny
March 21st, 2010
3:03 pm
Wahhhh!!!!!!! I teach high school and the most racist group are blacks towards hispanics. Also, if they arrest a 15 year old in NH why not arrest the racist, foul mouthed males that I try to teach? Bunch og hypocrits. As for you liberal clowns RACISM IS A 2 WAY STREET. I was never racial but after trying teaching I am becoming very racist toward those that think they deserve total entitlements and never have to work to earn anything.
Steve
March 21st, 2010
3:06 pm
will fight for liberty – you sound pretty racist.
will fight for liberty
March 21st, 2010
3:10 pm
steve i won’t stand by while you vile racist spit on my children!! i will do what is necessary to defend them i and others like me are not mlk. if that makes me racist so be it! i think it makes me american!!
Jim
March 21st, 2010
3:10 pm
The problem with your analysis Mentos is that it is incomplete. Right about Lincoln and the NAACP. Unfortunately, the times are a changing. The Southern Strategy started by Nixon had people leaving the Democratic Party in droves for the Republican party. The parties have changed positions entirely. To say the present day dems are the ancestors of Jim Crow stands history on its head. Me thinks you know it too.
cjrad
March 21st, 2010
3:12 pm
Now that we’ve established that the word N* is indeed a filthy, racist word not to be used by anyone, can we make it illegal for the Rappers to use as well in discribing people THEY hate?
Jim
March 21st, 2010
3:15 pm
P.S. Dr. Martin Luther King’s father was a Republican back in the day – doubt that would be the situation today.
Jayda
March 21st, 2010
3:15 pm
Hey Benny, what school do you work at, if you don’t mind telling us…
Legend of Len Barker
March 21st, 2010
3:15 pm
Georgians, you sadden and scare me.
One of the posts above compares the Tea Party to the civil rights movement. Let’s see, one group was attempting to be treated like humans, to attend the same schools, use the same bathrooms, and in some places, vote. They were about equal opportunity. The other group is against equal opportunity. For some reason, they don’t want a healthcare bill to pass that would hopefully give people the same opportunities for non-emergency room medical care.
Don’t pull the Republicans were for the civil rights era card and compare to today’s group. The Democrats were split back then. You had your Southern Dixiecrats such as Herman Talmadge, Marvin Griffin and George Wallace who yelled for “segregation forever!” At the same time, three of the greatest champions for civil rights were Democrats – John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson.
It is sad to see people all but blame John Lewis for what he heard. I doubt any video evidence will surface as all the footage that’s turned up so far have been recordings from digital cameras, which aren’t exactly known for their fine technical abilities. The longest I’ve seen so far is also 48 seconds long and it’s quite jumpy. Lewis, regardless of what of some of you think of his legislative abilities, is a man who had his skull fractured and he was severely beaten in Selma in 1965.
Because he wanted all people to have equal opportunities to services, schools, and rights, he was beaten.
These individuals may not represent the whole of the Tea Party movement, but I’ve been disturbed in recent weeks. There is this. There is the man mocked for having Parkinson’s Disease. There is the 11-year-old that Rush Limbaugh (among others) mocked for suggesting that his mother might have lived had she had the funds and access to proper healthcare.
These incidents happened at different rallies. I’ve seen signs with stereotypical drawings of Obama. These are scary and these are at your meetings.
If these people do not properly represent the Tea Party, you’d better do your best to make sure that they don’t.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
3:20 pm
P.S.S. Mentos, you mentioned Goldwater, Rockafeller, and Dirkson. Those guys were the reason that alot of us WERE REPUBLICANS. Funny thing began happening about 20 yrs. ago though. People started using the word RINO in the republican party. You know, if you are not a100 % conservative, you cannot possibly be a repub. Those of us who considered ourselves moderate to progressive repubs were basically told to hit the road. Again, part of what you say is accurate but your conclusions are inaccurate.
HFL
March 21st, 2010
3:21 pm
What a bunch of hypocrites. The least culturally, socially, and ethnically diverse party denouncing the “n” word. What a bunch of hypocrites. If you feed fury and rage (via Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, etc.) to people who fail to inform themselves thoroughly, this is what one harvests.
td
March 21st, 2010
3:24 pm
Legend of Len Barker, You are trying to compare civil rights in the same vein as health care. This health care bill is not about equal opportunity it is about equal outcome and the outcome is going to be reduced services for all. The real story of the democratic party is to have everyone have equal outcomes without any personal responsibility and no matter the effort of the person. Someone read Marx and you will find this is communism. Plain and simple.
Atlantan
March 21st, 2010
3:26 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was some lefty doing this. Also, unless this is actually on tape somewhere I wouldn’t be surprised if this was made up. If true, a couple of jackarses don’t define a movement.
The bigger tragedy is the $2.5 trillion in additional debt that Congressmen Lewis is choosing to give America. Words are words, but debt is a yolk that is tough to break.
All democrat supporters of Obamacare will be cursed by generations to come of this disaster.
Atlantan
March 21st, 2010
3:29 pm
Funny I don’t recall you hypocrite lefties getting your racist panties in a wad with the Condi Rice / Mammy cartoon, or the way Clarence Thomas was targeted as a sexual harasser by Teddy Kennedy and his ilk during his hearing. Meanwhile Clinton got a complete pass by you people.
You guys are hypocrites that God will ultimately judge. I don’t know how you can live with yourselves your progressive movement is filled with such lies and hypocrisy.
td
March 21st, 2010
3:29 pm
Jim. And if you are not 100% pro abortion, pro union and pro government you can not be a Democrat. Like I said both parties suck and they both only look out for the rights of their own special interest groups. Example, most Americans think tort reform is very important to lowering the cost of health insurance. Do you really believe the Democrats will ever allow true tort reform with the trail lawyers as one of their main special interest group?
Karl
March 21st, 2010
3:32 pm
What did he expect and I want to be baptized.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
3:36 pm
I still proscribe to what the social comentator, Will Rodgers once said ” I do not belong to an organized political party -I am a democrat”. Have real problems with some dem issues but have more problems with the right wing’s narrow agenda and their inability to accept anyone in the party who does not agree with them on virtually everything.
Tort reform happens to be an issue that you and I would more agree than disagree with. I have friends who are surgeons – I get it about frivilous and excessive law suits. That to me simply does not off set the need for health insurance reform. And at least acknowledge that the repubs never mentioned health care reform until the dems brought their plan. The repubs would have you believe now that they have some superior plan. If they have one, it was made up on the fly to try and stay in the ballgame.
john
March 21st, 2010
3:37 pm
it’s time for black people to start kicking white people ass
Just GETOVER IT
March 21st, 2010
3:50 pm
No one is surprized by what any of these so called “tea partiers “say, or do..they are the modern day version of the KKK..and a Black President has brought out ALL the NUTS!..ALL you Obama haters organize and get the H*** out of the country if you are SO FED UP!!!!!
Benny
March 21st, 2010
3:53 pm
Jayda – is it because you want to try and get me fired? Some sort of trap you want to spring one me? Want to try and pull a little ACORN action?
Keith
March 21st, 2010
3:53 pm
Lewis, Obama, Jackson, Sharpton, etc. are all very racist. Hang in there people. Obama is gone in three years and we will get things back to normal. Black people make terrible leaders, obviously.
Q
March 21st, 2010
3:56 pm
i understand why this article stops at Mr. Lewis…because of GA and all. However, what many of the responders fail to realize is that the group that was walking was spat upon, and also called fa**ot.
The person who spat on the Rep from SC was arrested.
What this group of people protesting did was absolutely uncalled for. Some of the signs they were carrying said something to effect of ‘I didn’t vote for Brown but my Browning will speak for me’ (with a picture of a gun on it). This wasn’t just some lone nutjob…this was the feel of the entire group that was protesting…and they had other republican congress people cheering them on. I do believe that they are a representative group of the larger ‘tea bagger’ coalition.
I’m amazed at how people will respond and not bother to research the entire story.
And they call dems lazy…..
j Sugar
March 21st, 2010
3:58 pm
WHERE WAS THE TEA PARTY WHEN THE MEDICARE PART D WAS PASSED?
Wake up America
March 21st, 2010
3:58 pm
I think both the republicans and democrats are a bunch of idiots. I’m a well educated man and am very shocked that more people don’t think that we need a political revolution in this country. And I’m not talking about some radical overthrow of the government. But rather a grass roots effort to bring about a third party who truly hears the voice of the people who put them in office. Wake up people because both of these parties have lost touch with the voters. They both only serve their special interest groups. It’s time for big political change in this country or were going to be in big trouble. Hell were already in big trouble! I refuse to pledge my loyalty to either of these scumbag parties.
On the issue of race, no one should ever use the n-word. But lets please not act like black people are the only victims of racism. I grew up around black people and saw plenty of racist rhetoric from their side as well. I live in an area were a lot of Latino’s have moved over the years and as someone said earlier some black’s tend to be abusive towards them. I substituted at the local high school while working on my Master’s and saw it first hand.
Dr. Str8 from the Dec
March 21st, 2010
3:59 pm
I have been confronted with the same type of racism/fear that our president is suffering. However, I think it is more fear than racism. President Obama, in my opinion, is a change agent. People are scared of change. Therefore, they will try to defame, distract and disrupt. I think people should listen instead of resorting back to the, “We like it this way. Why Change.” Change is good. Our cheese is just being moved a little. You can hem and haw or accept it and adjust. There are scared/racist individuals in both parties.
Just GETOVER IT
March 21st, 2010
4:01 pm
These post prove one thing…Inbreeding produces IDIOTS !!!..like Atlantan and William
Jayda
March 21st, 2010
4:15 pm
Benny, I don’t need to call the ACLU on idiots like you but you don’t need to teach young, impressionable minds. If they’re the way they are in school, it’s because of the poor quality of education that they’re NOT getting. You’re part of the problem with the Georgia Education system and don’t need to be there. You’re a coward who hides behind a fake mask in front of your students, probably lowering their scores and not giving them the quality education that they need to succeed in life.
Do them a big favor and quit but I know you won’t because that’s your power. Worst. Teacher. Ever.
Lester
March 21st, 2010
4:18 pm
Atleast he was not hit with a Pickrick Drumstick.
soscialism sux
March 21st, 2010
4:21 pm
Lewis was filmed and there is absolutely no evidence this ever happened, and if it did, you can be sure the ACORN faithful were involved. I suspect he is a liar just like his president, Pelosi, and the other commies. Tea Partiers don’t do that. Good try tho.
Bob
March 21st, 2010
4:23 pm
This is news? Really, is that all someone has to do is make a claim and the AJC prints it as fact? Sad and pathetic.
Bob
March 21st, 2010
4:26 pm
Hey Jim, Nancy Pelosi called the tea partiers Nazis. We all saw her announce that on tv. Why didn’t you report about that?
Wounded Warrior
March 21st, 2010
4:27 pm
my 3 great grandparents owned your ancestors.
Atlantan
March 21st, 2010
4:50 pm
This sad thing is is how Lewis is being taken advantage of the Democratic leadership. For all of his unwavering support what does Atlanta get – NOTHING. Yet John is voting today to support the Cornhusker Kickback, the LA Purchase, Gatoraid, the Bismark Bank Heist and other assorted goodies.
What did Ga or Atlanta get in the recent transportation bill – $750k. Thanks a pant load John for getting nothing in return from your leadership for your lapdog support. You do not represent Atlanta very well in DC.
ksiujgth
March 21st, 2010
5:05 pm
those shouting racial slurs were democrat union operatives planted by the party for the purpose of creating a non-issue.
ThePressHasItWrongAgain
March 21st, 2010
5:08 pm
These youtube links are not good enough. If the reports of the n-word were true, there would be video everywhere of the incident to support these allegations. Check out this clip. Notice the minority people in the crowd. Also notice the one dude in Lewis’ entourage holding the cell phone waist high recording the incident. Notice also the capitol police officer who is not reacting to anything that could be construed as spitting on or harassing these lawmakers. Open your eyes to the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I
Someone in a blog somewhere had the suggestion to just give the 30 million uninsured 1 million each to cover med insurance. Why not? It would only be 30 billion – easily at least 900 billion cheaper than estimates.
Dan Deacon
March 21st, 2010
5:14 pm
Atlantan…you are so correct!! John Lewis can’t hardly hold his pants up much less handle the responsibilities he’s been given. He’s laid around for years in Washington doing nothing, getting fatter off tax payer money and crusaded for one thing while in office……self centered race based policies and support. I call that racism in my book and most other people do.
People supporting this idiot should be ashamed and disgraced by doing so. Obviously they’re ignorant.
Cotton Head
March 21st, 2010
5:34 pm
I wish my great granddaddy had picked his own damn cotton!
Montrell J
March 21st, 2010
5:38 pm
I’m tired of these racist republicans trying to stop minorities from getting free government health care. Just raise taxes—it’s no big deal. They have plenty of money to pay more tax. I shouldn’t have to pay any of my salary for healthcare costs when the government can pay it. This bill will save a lot of money!!!
itpdude
March 21st, 2010
5:57 pm
Stupid stupid stupid. Yelling that stuff distracts from the issue that the health bill is a turkey. Now we get off on the path of some IDIOT yelling that mess at Rep. Lewis making it look like those who oppose this turkey must be racists.
It’s enough to make me think the Dems put the idiot up to that mess. Stupid stupid stupid.
jazzyk
March 21st, 2010
6:10 pm
Michael Steele says “…a handful of people got stupid,” regarding use of the
N-word outside the capitol. Stupid, why? Because their real feelings slipped out?
The Republicans have made it their business to stoke White racial hostility ever since they saw segregationist George Wallace win 13% of the vote as an independent in the 1968 presidential election. And whenever it blows up in their faces it’s “a handful of people got stupid.” What a bunch of lying cowards!
PW
March 21st, 2010
6:15 pm
John Birch Society all over again these tea party hateful people!
David Dukes
March 21st, 2010
6:19 pm
Everyone is talking about the majority of us were polled about about healthcare reform, when did this happen, where was I, the media calls about 1000 people and get their poll numbers and give it a percentage as if it represents the whole country, Obama campaigned on health care reform and won and now you repubs are acting shocked and appauled, if the majority of us didn’t want health care reform we wouldn’t have voted for Obama in the first place the majority rules right and we elected our leader so get over it and stop watching Fox news some of you will believe anything, I guess when Fox proclaim’s Obama as being from outer space some of you will demand an investigation and want proof as to whether he is human or not, I’m David Dukes but I still want better health care.
Atlantan
March 21st, 2010
6:30 pm
ThePressHasItWrong – never expect the liberals to let a good story defer from the truth. I’m reminded from that video David Scott hasn’t done a darn thing for the metro Atlanta either. So the metro area has 3-democrat lapdog reps and nothing to show for it. Some leadership guys.
Steve
March 21st, 2010
6:34 pm
Jayda, you are a joke. Benny states an opinion and he is what is wrong with education? You are the problem. It is called accountability but you want entitlements. Let one minority group be racist and that is OK but not OK for whites. Sound pretty racist to me.
Bobby Anthony
March 21st, 2010
6:53 pm
Reading this discussion makes me agree with Pogo when he said “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Dan Deacon
March 21st, 2010
6:59 pm
Due to the fact John Lewis or any other accuser cannot produce any evidence that the “n” word or any racial slurs were made, it never happened. Document what happened..especially if John Lewis’s
mouth is running off like a sewer. He, Obama or any of the black caucus can’t be trusted and will try anything to push their socialism agenda.
mike
March 21st, 2010
7:24 pm
Enter your comments here
meb
March 21st, 2010
7:44 pm
Gordon -
You may want to go backl and read your history on the two parties. It was indeed the southern Democrats that voted against Civil Rights. Once it passed, those Southern Democrats (and some others that were not in the South) left the Democratic party and joined the Republican party in protest. So what we ended up with was the bigotted Democrats taking control of the Republican party and the Republicans (previously known as the progressive party) moving to the Democratic Party. In essence, the two parties did a swap and what was the Dem became the Repubs and vice versa.
Paul
March 21st, 2010
7:44 pm
http://www.sbpdl.com
Black people just don’t care about the truth!
meb
March 21st, 2010
7:46 pm
Dan Deacon wrote: Due to the fact John Lewis or any other accuser cannot produce any evidence that the “n” word or any racial slurs were made, it never happened. Document what happened..especially if John Lewis’s
mouth is running off like a sewer. He, Obama or any of the black caucus can’t be trusted and will try anything to push their socialism agenda.
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You mean like all of the other white politicians?
meb
March 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
Paul
March 21st, 2010
7:44 pm
http://www.sbpdl.com
Black people just don’t care about the truth!
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And what about you or this posting shows that you care about anything other than stupidity.
meb
March 21st, 2010
7:53 pm
Cotton Head
March 21st, 2010
5:34 pm
I wish my great granddaddy had picked his own damn cotton!
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Me too!!!!!
Straight Arrow
March 21st, 2010
8:46 pm
We’ve simply got to find a way to create a better species than homo sapiens.
Mitzymy
March 21st, 2010
9:02 pm
The insurance industry is spending upwards of 3 million dollars per day to defeat the health care reform. Does this tell you anything? If this passes, they are going to stop denying you health care for pre-existing conditions. They will no longer be able to raise rates, there will no longer be a ceiling on the amount of coverage, the donut hole that terrifies senior citizens with prescription drug coverage will be smaller until it is gone. We need this real bad, and I am ashamed that the white racist majority does not want it. That is what the tea party members are. Take a look at them the next time they are on the news. Where were they during the Bush administration?
Michael
March 21st, 2010
9:07 pm
GOP press release went on to say that African Americans must now be referred to by the popular codeword – “thug.”
What a Joke!!
March 21st, 2010
9:14 pm
What really ticks me off about some of you racist morons is your gross OVER-GENERALIZATION that ALL Blacks fit into one category. It’s like you are actually stupid enough to think that ALL of us are on welfare and have a spirit of entitlement. I guess that’s what you need to believe in order to continue your false sense of superiority, but let me make it clear to you neanderthals….NOT ALL BLACKS are the same! Just like NOT ALL WHITES are the same!!
You all are BEYOND pathetic!
Just the Facts
March 21st, 2010
9:40 pm
When in doubt, pull out the race card. It’s worked for years and since we can’t come up with anything else that is more clever then will continue to use it.
Jim
March 21st, 2010
9:49 pm
An historic night tonight. Finally, the log jam breaks and the people of this country get a break re: healthcare. And has anyone noticed that the complaining and vile name calling is coming from people who already have insurance? It is almost as though they are saying “we have ours- screw you and your needs”.
As a teen ager, I watched the passage of the Civil Rights Bill and the Medicare Bill. I then went on to teach history and to be a public school administrator. Tonight reminds me of those days where really important matters happened. The times they are a changin.
Needabailout, too!
March 21st, 2010
10:13 pm
Yes, Jim, the times-they-are-a-changin’.I’m excited for our future, just as I was when Obama was elected. What concerns me is, how long before these outraged ‘patriots’ strike back against ‘The Establishment’? Fly their over-fueled airplanes into govt. buildings? Or begin cleaning the glass scopes of their high-powered rifles, to end the tyrannical ‘Socialist’s hold that is wrecking their country? How long before our headlines splash with news of retaliation against the ‘abomination against the Constitution’? Yes, the times they are a changin’. And what we may see soon of our neighbors may be frightening.
Truthteller
March 21st, 2010
10:24 pm
This is going to be the beginning of the end of a lot of things we’ve gotten used to in America and a lot of political careers. Load up on that .223 ammo! It’s going fast…
Pussification of America
March 21st, 2010
10:28 pm
The passing of healthcare will be yet another step in the pussification of this once great nation. What happened to self-reliance and personal responsibility? Can you imagine the guys that won WWII cheering Nancy Pelosi? It looks like we are on the track to big government that will take care of all our needs. All we have to do is keep voting the Dems back in office. GROW A PAIR, AMERICA! Man up and take care of your own needs.
Used to be Disgusted
March 21st, 2010
10:54 pm
Republicans are a bunch of brain dead morons. What a group of pathetic losers!
Pith
March 21st, 2010
11:17 pm
I want to see videos of the incident because so far videos posted on youtube do not support the accusation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiMFcoTzk2A&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_rev-rn-1r-1-HM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCs6pSE8_I&feature=related.
Not a rascist...but a realist
March 21st, 2010
11:21 pm
Is there any evidence other than “he said” that these comments were made. John Lewis has made a career out of keeping racism “stirred up”.
Racism goes BOTH WAYS.
As far as the comment about minorities finally getting FREE healthcare. THEY ALREADY DO!! It’s called MEDICAID and PEACHCARE!!!! I work at a location that deals with insurance and patients. I am not exaggerating when I say 8 out of 10, if not 9 out of 19 patients with Medicaid are minorities (black and Hispanic). I for one am TIRED of paying for this “insurance” for these people who do not work for it.
YES, let’s institute drug tests for these recipients. The leaching will go down greatly.
I’m not racist at all. I despise Obama, Pelosi, Lewis, Frank all the same. Not because they are democrats, but because they are idiots.
You people that think this “healthcare reform” is going to improve things…keep drinking the koolaid and we’ll see by 2014.
Not a rascist...but a realist
March 21st, 2010
11:22 pm
Meant 9 out of 10 above
Republican turned Democrat
March 21st, 2010
11:37 pm
YES WE DID! The GOP can use whatever racist, hateful, vile language they want. It’s partly because of that sickning racist rhetoric that I no longer can stand being a part of the GOP. Great day for America. Sad day when reality hits home when a congressman is called the n-word and there are people in this forum in denial or taking up for the one who said it. Sick
Used to be Disgusted
March 21st, 2010
11:38 pm
Barak kicked some republican ass tonight. Well-done, Mr. President.
Republican turned Democrat
March 21st, 2010
11:40 pm
And for “Not a racist but a realist”…changing your name doesn’t change who you are. You’re a bigoted person full of hate who can’t stand seeing the poor receive the help they need. If your skin were black, I guarantee you would see things totally different. The only thing real about you is that you’re really a racist regardless of how you’d prefer to view yourself. It is quite obvious what you are.
WPWW
March 22nd, 2010
12:07 am
Give me a break!!! Assuming anyone actually did yell “der verboten” word…it was a paid agent provocateur for the DNC or feds (attempting to discredit the Tea Party movement). Also, the “racist” tag is a cultural marxist buzzword meant to force compliance to the (BS) “PC” agenda.
http://www.anunews,net
WPWW
March 22nd, 2010
12:10 am
….Also, there are far too many lemmings here that are duped by the phony “Left vs. Right” paradigm. The Globalist Elite leverage this paradigm as a control mechanism for the sheeple. Fact is, the DNC & GOP “leadership” are 2 sides of the same coin…controlled by the Elite. Stop being duped by the “mainstream” propaganda!
http://www.infowars.com
http://www.anunews.net
Keeping It Real
March 22nd, 2010
3:28 am
Used to be Disgusted = Too Stupid and Uneducated to Even Correctly Spell the Name of His “god”
Needabailout, too!
March 22nd, 2010
5:34 am
How about ‘Baby Killer’ shouted at Rep. Stupek by a House Republican, later dismissed by Republicans as “just being frustrated” by the moment. So emotional overload justifies disrespectful epithets, not just from a handful of ‘idiots on the street’ but also from Congressional elected officials. Nice.
Needabailout, too!
March 22nd, 2010
5:51 am
WPWW-I just checked out your websites. Since government takeover is imminent, I hope they make a clean sweep and eliminate the cesspools of propaganda you’ve provided. It’d be doing us all a favor.
American Indian
March 22nd, 2010
8:48 am
I have republicans friends and one thing I learned from them is that they value animal life more than human life. Take a stray dog for example, a republican would empty their bank account to help a stray, but when it comes to human life they could care less.
All bush had to do is take half the money used for this senseless conflict (because it’s damn sure not a war) and help improve the education system in this country along with health care, but what do the ReFublicans do, they wait until a game-changer get in office before they attempt (ATTEMPT) to help the Americans out of the hole in which THEY dug for eight years.
The vote is in, move forward with your lives and get the hel**** off the computer.Go help the homeless children, and the sick elderly.
I’ve got some volunteering to do….
BW is a moron
March 22nd, 2010
9:46 am
Crybaby! SO WHAT? Does it really bother a someone when they are called a name.
BIG DEAL. Just another black politician that claims he was callled the “N” word
when a big bill comes up. I think this is about the 18th time for john lewis in the last
12 years. He is surely thin skinned.
You can call me names all day and night. I’m not a little boy.
WPWW
March 22nd, 2010
12:16 pm
Needabailout, too! – The propaganda is what’s spoon-fed to Americans via the controlled “mainstream” media, the puppets on “Crapitol sHill” & the “Sheepltainment” industry. The Powers-That-Be will no doubt target internet freedoms & fact-filled sites (to enlighten those with aptitude to learn & understand the TRUTH) such as the following…
http://www.anunews.net
http://www.infowars.com
***The bogus Left/Right paradigm is a ruse leveraged to control the populace!
Joyce Cross
March 22nd, 2010
12:22 pm
We are not a representative republic anymore. What about the will of the people?? We have to get rid of lawmakers like Lewis and Bishop at the ballot box. No one supports idiots like the ones yelling racial slurs at lawmakers but this law is WRONG. It is Un-American and Un-Constitutional to force people to purchase anything. Anyone who believes you can insure 30 million people for free is very stupid. Everyone who still has a job is going to pay and when you are sick you will be waiting a long time to get medical care, just ask the people in Canada. This law mandates the destruction of the private health insurance business. This vote is about corruption, pure and simple. The American people know what is going on. Throw the bums like Lewis and Bishop out of office. This day will be remembered and those who voted for this law will be remembered for trampling on the freedom and liberty of the American people.
RetLTC
March 22nd, 2010
1:13 pm
Check the demographics. The long gone era that many right wingers long for ain’t coming back in spite of all the fear and all the anger.
Sarah Caldwell
March 22nd, 2010
2:11 pm
Tea party goers, tell me again how you’re not racist.
jfk
March 22nd, 2010
3:03 pm
you can’t trust what lewis says he heard. his ears are still ringing from when he got hit on the head with the dirt clods in the 60’s.
becky sue
March 23rd, 2010
11:06 am
GOP+KKK = Republican Tea Party…….Micheal Steele you are gonna be picking cotton with the rest of them….. Sell your soul to the devil.. Told you about the Tea Party….KKK…
1911A1
March 23rd, 2010
2:15 pm
The word I think of when I think of John Lewis is “fossil.” (Or maybe “socialist.”) Time for him to go home and retire, along with the rest of those crooks on Capitol Hill.
Breitbart offers $10k reward for proof that n-word was hurled at John Lewis | Political Insider
March 26th, 2010
11:07 am
[...] Here’s the Insider post that ran. This from a Detroit news outlet: Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the N-word, 15 times.” Both Carson and Lewis are black, and Lewis spokeswoman Brenda Jones also said that it occurred. “It was like going into the time machine with John Lewis,” said Carson, a large former police officer who said he wasn’t frightened but worried about the 70-year-old Lewis, who is twice his age. “He said it reminded him of another time.” [...]
KILL THE BILL
April 2nd, 2010
1:08 am
Sorry but as of April 2, 2010 there is STILL no evidence that proves this actually happened. Scores of videos have been combed and $100K reward offered and yet, NOTHING.
If this man felt harassed it’s his own fault for not listening to his constituents.
KILL THE BILL is all they were shouting… if it’s racist to shout, well, that’s a stretch!