Breitbart offers $10k reward for proof that n-word was hurled at John Lewis
Andrew Breitbart, on his Big Government web site, is offering $10,000 for proof that U.S. Rep. John Lewis was assaulted with the n-word last Saturday in the run-up to the vote on health care.
This is the same web site that first put up the footage of ACORN staffers in Baltimore, giving advice on how to avoid paying taxes on cash acquired through prostitution.
By way of backbround: Last Saturday, as they went to the U.S. Capitol to hear a final speech on health care, Lewis and other African-American congressmen passed by a crowd of mostly white tea party protestors.
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.”
Brenda Jones, spokeswoman for Lewis, confirmed the incident.
Breitbart accuses Lewis and the other members of Congress of goading the crowd:
On Saturday, during the peaceful and patriotic tea party protest at the Capitol, the Democrats staged a series of symbolic acts meant to manipulate the media to do its bidding. The Congressional Black Caucus pulled the Selma card and chose to walk through the crowd in the hopes of creating a YouTube incident.
There is no reason in 21st century America on an issue that is not a black or white or a civil rights issue to have a bloc of black people walk slowly through a mostly white crowd to make a racial point. The walk in and of itself — with two of the participants holding their handheld cameras above their heads hoping to document “proof” — was an act of racism meant to create a contrast between the tea party crowd and themselves….
It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up. Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once. Surely one of those two cameras wielded by members of his entourage will prove his point…..
Rep. Lewis, if you can’t do that, I’ll give him a backup plan: a lie detector test. If you provide verifiable video evidence showing that a single racist epithet was hurled as you walked among the tea partiers, or you pass a simple lie detector test, I will provide a $10K check to the United Negro College Fund.
We’ve got a query into Lewis’ office, but do not expect the Atlanta congressman to engage.
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127 comments Add your comment
DawgDad
March 26th, 2010
4:02 pm
professional skeptic: Why are you seemingly convinced they did? I wasn’t there, but I certainly didn’t take the bait.
Captain Midnight
March 26th, 2010
4:04 pm
Danny, well hell yes it’s evidence and if these people broke the law then they should be prosecuted.
MiltonMan
March 26th, 2010
4:35 pm
Republican turned Demorat, you are the ignorant one. Care to discuss the following:
(1) what about the rap mucis that glorifies certain lifestyles
(2) What about Vernon Jones & his demote whites in DeKalb County
(3) How about the white librarians in Fulton County who were awarded taxpayer money for being discriminated against.
etc.
etc.
As oppossed to discussing facts, you express nothing more than your heated ignorance.
Chief Wiggum
March 26th, 2010
5:38 pm
To Congressman Lewis: Video or GTFO.
South GA Conservative
March 26th, 2010
5:38 pm
Danny X, let’s clarify things; I will call you a name, for you are an ignorant, koolaid drinking fool.
It would appear that Rep. Lewis is indeed a race-baiting liar. Everytime those guys scratch their butts a camera catches it. If the N-word was used, we would have heard it on MSNBC by now.
Danny Ten is fomenting hate
March 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
Danny Ten is fomenting hate. He mush like Chris “one scotch away from becoming Ron Burgandy” Matthews. The link below is the kind of Democrat that Danny Ten and 99.9% of libs are.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
People like Matthews and Danny 10 wants the blacks to remain on the democrat plantation. When will the Black community rise up and ask their masters on the left what have they really done for them. Seems to me that after supporting a party for decades and no improvement in the black community is evident, that they would get sick of being played for suckers.
Danny XII
March 26th, 2010
7:02 pm
Here is the racist footage.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
DannyX
March 26th, 2010
7:25 pm
South GA Conservative, there is no video or audio proof that your 5:38 exists.
Therefore your post never existed.
Now if you produce a video as evidence, I might become insulted.
Danny Ten is fomenting hate
March 26th, 2010
7:39 pm
Danny Ten knows there is no footage because this whole deal is a lie. The capital police say there is no evidence of this. In fact the vidoe that is available shows Lewis marching in like he said, but no where on the video can the racist words be heard.
Let me break this down for the libs: Lewis is a race baiter. This is a coordinated attempt by the democrat party and their wh@res in the media, like Jumbo G, to take the focus off the miserable Obamacare fiasco. See you libs in nov. at the polls. Say, danny 10, did your mother, if she wasn’t still drinking while raising you- we know that she was a drinker while preggers with you… that fetal alcohol syndrome really did a number on your noodle, ever teach you the story about the youngman that cried wolf?
Here is the most recent racism footage that I have been able to find. (here is a littlke secret It is gonna be used in commercials against any one that embraces the democrat label in nov.) Enjoy Danny Ten, you detestable lib hack race baiting pillow biter.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
Liar Liar Pants On Fire
March 26th, 2010
7:40 pm
Too Funny. John Lewis is called out and can’t back up his claims. Dems have no credibility anymore.
Danny Ten is fomenting hate
March 26th, 2010
7:43 pm
Yeah I called you names, DannyX (His wife calls him Dann IV.5, but that is a different story). So what! Write a formal complaint on one of your race cards, fold it into five corners and shove it up your disgusting race baiting arse. I am so sick of democrats playing the race card. GO FOCK YOURSELF DANNY X.
Shawn
March 26th, 2010
9:11 pm
Rather than any video evidence, I would have preferred the people making all that noise get treated the way they would have as liberal protesters: Have the Capitol Police forcibly move them out of the way, and beat the living crap out of anyone who resisted or didn’t get out of the way fast enough. And if they complain, explain to them it’s the law, the same law that’s been in effect since 2001 that they didn’t complain about.
MsL
March 27th, 2010
7:13 am
As a member of the tea party that participated in the march, and yes a black tea party member, I watched Lewis and others come across the bridge. No name calling occurred period!!. We yelled, “kill the bill”. Black, white, Asian, or brown, does it surprise anyone that Lewis and his crew of black representatives are liars. Franks too is lying, I was so up close and personally with most of them, and Franks was not called names. I said, as he crossed, “oh my he has lost a lot of weight”.
America, you representatives, hate to state the truth, are liars. In the word of Wilson, “you lie”.
km
March 27th, 2010
1:13 pm
Thank you, MsL.
Enjoy the USA While It Lasts
March 27th, 2010
3:47 pm
MsL, thanks for taking your time and expense and attending the Tea Prty. AT&T, John Deere and others have already announced either increases in employee’s health costs or the disolution of exisitng health benefits as a result of Obamacare. When the reality of Obamacare hits the Obama Zombies in their wallet, they’ll start to sober up … it’ll probably be too late for the country economically though.
GVnana
March 27th, 2010
10:54 pm
Crickets chirping…
This is Mrs. Norman Maine
March 28th, 2010
8:51 am
I bet if someone had reported that protesters bullied and berated a man with Parkinson’s disease at a protest, Breitbart would have claimed that didn’t happen either. I have no problem believing that crowd is capable of using the n-word also. Breitbart should take his 10K and stick it up his ———-
I.C. Bias
March 28th, 2010
11:52 am
This is Mrs. Norman Maine wrote: “I have no problem believing that crowd is capable of using the n-word also.”
Translation: “Like Rep. Lewis, I don’t have any video proof either.”
Keep up the empty rhetoric, libs … your bogus claims of racism are what make Andrew Breitbart famous. Gee, what’s the matter — can’t make ol’ Andrew lose his $10,000 bet?
This is Mrs. Norman Maine
March 28th, 2010
1:09 pm
@ I.C …….lolololol! Breitbart is famous? Really???! Really! I never heard of the guy until today. I kid you not. I can tell you this, Mr. Breitbart will never acheive the level of fame and reverence that Rep. Lewis holds. Never. We both know that, don’t we?
As for proving anything to you or Mr. B, I think I owe you an apology. Apparently I made you believe that I give a care if you believe Mr. Lewis or not…….and I don’t. In fact, no one cares if he believes it and Mr. Lewis doesn’t have to prove anything to you or him. Sorry Charlie.
kwonjez Jazdrak
March 29th, 2010
1:31 pm
This DOESN’T surprise me at all.The whites are SO jealous,cause O’Bama won and they CAN’T get over it.Keith-WHAT in the hell makes you think that whites are better than blacks,when all of yall rednecks wish and wants for a black woman,but the black women DON’T want white men,BUT a white trash ass white woman all she want is a BLACK “D”.YOU sound stupid,I work everyday and I DON’T NEED or WANT a damn thing from you redneck SOB’S.John Lewis is not surprised by yall wrackers,he’ve been marching for centuries and haven’t a damn thing changed,only the years,”OH I forgot,white women shacking with black men and SUPPORTING them.LOL.The blacks caused so much trouble?Well what did the kluxes do?They rode around and killed blacks for NO REASON,but they’re so much better.huh?Look B…H,take your BABY WEENIE out of your mammy’s P…Y and MAYBE yall nasty “B’S” can get rid or the lices.John Lewis DON’T NEED yall CRACKER MF’S.I’ve ALWAYS wanted a cracker to call me the “N” word in person,but like the kluxes,they were always scared.YOU see KEITH,I DON’T give a “F” about yall,NEVER have,NEVER will and I’ll “F” your “S” raggedy,WHITE BOY.Yall crackers pretend like I’m Lewis,just give me a reason to kill some of yall MF’S.I’ll put YOU where the cat put his “S”.NEXT.
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Big Mike
April 1st, 2010
8:02 pm
Hey. “Republican turned Democrat” (yeah, right, I’m so sure!) ,who in the world is “Richard Steele”? If you had ever actually been a Republican in this century, you would know that the RNC chairman is MICHAEL Steele!
How does it feel to be a phony and a shill for the left wing of the Democrat lie machine?
kyle
April 6th, 2010
12:36 pm
lie detector tests are junk science. They aren’t reliable and are only used to try to intimidate the testee. They also know that if any physical evidence was captured, it would have been shown already. This is a hollow challenge and it insults American intelligence. Or maybe not…
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April 13th, 2010
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Can I have my $10,000 now ?
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