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NYT‘s Apology For Tea Party Racism Accusation Not Enough For Breitbart

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A few days ago, the New York Times ran a correction on an article about the Tea Party. In it, they note that there is no proof that Tea Party supporters shouted racial epithets at Congressman John Lewis. Another feather in the cap of Andrew Breitbart, surely, but one news outlet for him is not enough when so many others have yet to do the same.

In an extensive Big Journalism column today, the website’s proprietor notes that, “buried at the bottom of a story the other day,” the Times had given him an apology that he had spent an enormous promotional effort procuring– some might even say the Shirley Sherrod drama was fueled by a desire to see the left have to prove themselves not racist in the same way Breitbart perceived the Tea Party to have to do. “That’s great,” he comments, and that’s about all that he’s giving the newspaper, following with a stream of reasons for why one apology is not enough, and does not vindicate the media to him:

“It’s not enough because the Times correction is just the beginning. The same correction needs to come from every other major media outlet that blithely repeated this defamation, including the AP, the Washington Post, The Hill, and MSNBC – not just in their news columns, but in their editorials, op-ed and opinion columns and shows as well. Until then, there will be no closure, because the Tea Party will not stop in its pursuit of vindication until the same media effort that went into propagating this lie goes into dispelling it and giving the millions of Americans – 23% of whom are minorities, according to Gallup — their good name back.”

On his Twitter feed, he also added to the usual suspects CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who also apologized to Breitbart last week for not questioning Sherrod’s claim that he was in favor of slavery. And, of course, he highlighted once again the masterminds behind the “cynical political ploy” to distract from policy issues: “President Obama and elected Democrats… with the help of their media allies and activist groups like the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus.”

The rest of the column returns to the usual Breitbartian themes of “racist” being the worst label in American politics and the Mainstream Media’s insistence on promoting their agenda. To paraphrase former Vice President Spiro Agnew, you’ve seen one Breitbart column, you’ve seen them all. That’s not to discredit him however, as the current pool of public facts– the dozens of YouTube videos showing no proof of racial epithets having been shouted by Tea Partiers at black congressmen– are on his side. On the other side? The congressmen themselves, and, among others, CNN reporter Dana Bash, who claims to have personally heard some “ugly things” at the rally, and that her staff heard epithets against Rep. Barney Frank. In other words, it’s a classic “he said, she said,” and the only thing remotely resembling evidence is on Breitbart’s side, but few on the left dare trust him.

At the core of this story (or non-story) is the trust of the American people in their media, whether that be the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, or Breitbart’s blog ring. When, in the past, people would trust news sources solely on the basis of their existence as national corporations, the democratizing effect of new media has exposed the fact that the “objectivity” previously taken for granted is practically impossible. It’s not rare to find people concerned for the state of journalism when so-called “objective” reports can’t be trusted, but it’s actually a quite healthy evolution of the American collective psyche. Every news story is a remake of Rashomon; every report is inherently biased.

This was as true when there was only an evening news broadcast as it is today with the advent of 24-hour news via TV and internet. Even in cases where there is a deliberate attempt at objectivity, stories get spun– think CNN going through pains to present “both sides” of the Civil War– and apologies are only offered when the base that trusts the source begins to appear wary of it, as the Times did here. In the context of Breitbart’s apology requests, this means that it’s likely only news sources who see a danger for their credibility in not apologizing will do so, so Breitbart had better hope the average MSNBC viewer starts to feel that they can’t trust the network because Andrew Breitbart says so (good luck with that).

Related – NBC News’ Chuck Todd Calls Andrew Breitbart A ‘Conservative Propagandist’

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  • Socrates69

    Why is being racist the worst label in American politics? What in the hell does that really mean? Its seems we could find a lot more uglier labels for an American politician than racist.

  • Azarkhan

    “he highlighted once again the masterminds behind the “cynical political ploy” to distract from policy issues: “President Obama and elected Democrats… with the help of their media allies and activist groups like the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus.”

    Once again Andrew Breitbart speaks truth to power. Keep up the good work!

  • MichelleF

    And here I thought Andrew had no credibility or influence anymore. Looks like that’s not entirely true. Sorry libs!!

  • Cubby

    As long as there is an Internet full of idiots, people like Breitbart will continue to thrive. So, he’s not going anywhere.

  • Socrates69

    He’s claiming victory where they simply retracted their statements because theres no evidence. Fair. Because yeah its a he/she said kind of argument. So I’m curious Az, and MichelleF, does the same logical apply to arguments made by the right and their stereotypes?

  • MichelleF

    Your right Cubby, he’ll be there to call out the left on their stupidity at every turn!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    MichelleF said:
    And here I thought Andrew had no credibility or influence anymore

    Why to you credit Breitbart’s influence on the NYT’s correction? He wasn’t mentioned….

    “The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.”

    Was he the only bagger voice saying the epithets had never happened?

    You assume too much, little mormon.

  • yweston

    Breitbart is a right wing Hack stuck in Right Wing Hack World. Trying to defend his EDITED lying video. SUE HIS RACIST ARSE SHIRLEY, SUE, SUE, SUE……. (Tea Hee).

    Breitbart wanted to meet with Shirley….Guess she kicked him to the curb with THAT ONE

  • yweston

    He was in Philly this past weekend looking STUPID trying to promote diversity in that RACIST MESS they call a Tea Party. I can’t wait until Becka’s soiree this month. All the RACIST will be out screaming I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK. It will be pathetic.

    The M00siah and Ted Nugent and MLK’s. Second rate right wing Hacks.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    When the lie becomes a legend , Howard Dean will believe it . Rabies in humans is a terrible thing to see . yweston AKA Iris is a good example of this .

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    yweston is ticked off because AlGore did not tip well today .

  • MichelleF

    BFD, I credit him, because he’s the one that asked them for it. You don’t really think they did it for no reason, do you?

    Y says:

    Breitbart is a right wing Hack

    And you are a hosilte, left-wing hack! I’m sure Andrew really cares what yweston has to say.

  • MichelleF

    BFD, btw, what does my being mormon have to do with anything? You, Val, and Royal Race-Baiter seem to be obsessed with the fact that I am mormon. If you think you’re getting to me with your little mormon-hating digs, think again. It just makes you look like an intolerant moron. Have a great day!!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    MichelleF said:
    BFD, btw, what does my being mormon have to do with anything?

    Sorry. That was a typo.

    I meant “moron”

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    MichelleF said:
    BFD, I credit him, because he’s the one that asked them for it.

    So if Breitbart asks Obama to get the troops out of Afghanistan, and the President eventually does that, that is Breitbart’s influence?

    Not following your logic. You are assuming without proof just like the NYT’s supposedly did about the racial epithets.

  • roxsteady

    Once again, just because no one recorded what Lewis heard doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it wasn’t picked up by the people there who were recording. It’s not a surprise considering the fact that people were yelling and screaming all at the same time. As many of you may know, on September 11th, 2001 at 8:47am I was coming up the escalator at the World Trade Center with hundreds of other people but, we didn’t hear the actual explosion of the first plane hitting the building because we were 70 feet below which is where the train platform is. Just because we didn’t hear the explosion doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means our proximity to it prevented us from hearing it. Breitbart has the nerve to request an apology when he himself isn’t willing to give one to Shirley Sherrod or ACORN for his proven lies. Now, Breitbart may be around for a long time but, his credibility has not only been damaged but, as Rachel Maddow pointed out last night, with the bullshit story that Malkin posted about the Zetas taking over Loredo TX, he’s also damaged the credibility of all the other wingnut conservative loon websites. The proof is in the fact that I hadn’t heard or seen that story on any real news outlets until Rachel mentioned it last night. The media, as Chip Reid noted on Sunday “will no longer report anything from the Breitbarts of the world without checking it first.” They are all now damaged goods and that’s a good thing.

  • Socrates69

    Thank you Rox. My point exactly, if he Breibart sees it as vindication of his “facts” then what about his “false reporting” of the facts on Sherrod or ACORN? Why the obvious double standard?

  • Pablo

    Socrates69 said:
    Why is being racist the worst label in American politics? What in the hell does that really mean? Its seems we could find a lot more uglier labels for an American politician than racist.

    It isn’t the worst, but it’s the ugliest, and it’s meant to inflict catastrophic damage. It used to work, too.

    Frances, props on the fair and balanced piece.

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Well Breitbart you should not be worried about who you think should be apologetic. You should be worried about the black man when I say the black man I mean a black woman. She will sue you for everything you own. I wonder if she will take your three-cornered hat. You know the hat you Tea Party members are so fond of since the beginning of your Astor Turf movement.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    roxsteady said:
    They are all now damaged goods and that’s a good thing.

    Don’t forget the bullshit that about the Lockerbie bomber release that was on all the right wing smear-sites as well. Including a headline on Drudge.

    At least Dana Perino had the “cajones” to apologize, not like all the baggers here who spent a full day insisting it was true.

    “Being A Teaturd Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry”

  • MichelleF

    Box of Rox says:

    Once again, just because no one recorded what Lewis heard doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it wasn’t picked up by the people there who were recording.

    Nice try Rox, but the media was everywhere trying to get something like this on film and yet they couldn’t. They didn’t get it BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!. You and your pals over at Think Progress have to manufacture video’s of things that didn’t happen at Tea-Parties because the TP’s won’t cooperate and give the left what they want.

  • Pablo

    roxsteady said:
    Once again, just because no one recorded what Lewis heard doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it wasn’t picked up by the people there who were recording.

    Yeah, at least 5 of them at the time it supposedly happened. None of them picked it up, and nobody else did either, with $100K hanging out there. Thing is, if you’ve recorded the time and place where he said it happened, and it isn’t on the recording? Given the way he said it happened, well, it didn’t happen like that, and quite possibly didn’t happen at all.

  • Some_Dude

    I’m surprised anyone outside of Fox News is still covering him. He’s a lying shill, we get it.

  • Rosey

    Socrates69 said:
    Why is being racist the worst label in American politics? What in the hell does that really mean? Its seems we could find a lot more uglier labels for an American politician than racist.

    How ’bout ‘politician’…?

  • Rosey

    Socrates69 said:
    He’s claiming victory where they simply retracted their statements because theres no evidence. Fair. Because yeah its a he/she said kind of argument. So I’m curious Az, and MichelleF, does the same logical apply to arguments made by the right and their stereotypes?

    I don’t remember who said it but it’s not “a he/she said kind of argument,” it’s a he said/he said and FIVE VIDEO CAMERAS corroborated what he said as evidence that it NEVER happened. But you’re basically right that it’s not the end-all. There is still 100K offered by Brietbart if anyone has evidence of it taking place…good luck w/that!

  • Rosey

    Apostrophe jones said:
    yweston is ticked off because AlGore did not tip well today .

    That’s just wrong…wow!!!

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    The reason this is significant is that numerous news outlets reported this as a de facto occurance, and only after it was demanded that somebody provide the evidence did the narrative begin to turn. In the days immediately after this supposed hate-crime the media declared it happened, but when the evidence failed to turn up we heard the story change to, “Words that Congressman Lewis claims were directed towrads him.”

    The irony is that all the people barking about Fox fabricating news are completely unbothered by other news outlets reporting on something without evidence.

  • Ted-

    MichelleF said:
    Box of Rox says:

    Once again, just because no one recorded what Lewis heard doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it wasn’t picked up by the people there who were recording.

    Nice try Rox, but the media was everywhere trying to get something like this on film and yet they couldn’t. They didn’t get it BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!. You and your pals over at Think Progress have to manufacture video’s of things that didn’t happen at Tea-Parties because the TP’s won’t cooperate and give the left what they want.

    MichelleF – You blithering tea-bagging moron. You are the only person I know that can manage to make a cucumber look like a goddamn genius. You don’t believe Lewis because of the damage it does to you idiot tea-bag types. Either that or you’re a racist asshole; probably both. You make buffoons look like Einstein.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Sure, there’s proof – John Lewis said it happened. I’d believe him over about anybody. But to be specific, I’d believe about anybody over that lying piece of shit Andrew Not So Breitbart. Just sayin’.

  • notsofast

    Another win for Breitbart and another lib lie exposed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Socrates69 said:
    Why is being racist the worst label in American politics? What in the hell does that really mean? Its seems we could find a lot more uglier labels for an American politician than racist.

    Well, we do call some of the ‘Republican.’ That’s pretty damning.

  • NORBIT

    Prosecute the LYING Democrats that tried PLAYING THE RACE CARD AGAIN!!!!!
    Did they file a false report?

    Are they all part of that criminal organization called the Black Caucus?
    Can we have “Group Ethics Violations”?

    When will Obama throw these LYING DEMOCRATS under the bus? – We know it doesn’t take this Administration long to abandon their supporters!!!

  • notsofast

    Bill Adkins said:
    Sure, there’s proof – John Lewis said it happened. I’d believe him over about anybody.

    That’s not proof of anything except that you are a racist.

    The video disproves your lib lies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    notsofast said:
    That’s not proof of anything except that you are a racist. The video disproves your lib lies.

    No, nutsofast, it’s an issue of credibility – and Andrew Not So Breitbart (are you related?) has none. None – zero-zilch. As a matter of fact, Notsobreibart is a proven liar. g’day.

  • MichelleF

    A man was arrested for spitting on a congressman. No, he was let go.

    Protesters shouted the “n-word” at black lawmakers. Witnesses say it never happened.

    A gay congressman was called a slur. Yet he was accused of swearing at someone in the crowd before that.

    These are the conflicting claims that have emerged from the series of tense encounters lawmakers say they endured with Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill Saturday, in the final raucous hours before Congress approved the health care reform bill.

    Claims that the protesters hurled anti-gay and racist epithets at them tore through the blogosphere in the run-up to the vote and were used to decry the protests, but Tea Party supporters are challenging those accounts, saying they didn’t hear them, or at least that those responsible were not part of the Tea Party protest.

    “Never did I hear any type of racial slur,” said William Owens, a black Tea Party activist from Nevada who joined in the D.C. protests Saturday.

    Here’s what is known about Saturday’s run-ins:

    Several black lawmakers say that as they were walking by protesters on their way to a procedural vote on Capitol Hill, a group of demonstrators shouted at them and called them the n-word.

    “They were just shouting, harassing,” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a legend of the civil rights movement, said.

    In addition, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a black congressman from Missouri, said he was spit on by someone in the crowd who was later detained.

    Plus someone shouted a gay slur at Frank in the hallway of a House office building.

    “Today’s protests against health insurance reform saw a rash of despicable, inflammatory behavior,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said.

    Now here’s where those accounts are called into question:

    Though the claims of racist epithets against Lewis and other congressmen drew a lot of media attention, witnesses say they never heard such language and YouTube videos have surfaced that show protesters booing and shouting “Kill the Bill” but not shouting the n-word.

    Kay Fischer, a protester from North Carolina, said she was watching the black lawmakers walk by and, like Owens, heard nothing of the sort.

    Asked about such claims, Emanuel spokeswoman Mary Petrovic noted that the online videos of the incident are under a minute — and so don’t show the entire encounter. She and stood by her boss’ account.

    “He heard slurs,” she said.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589776,00.html

  • MichelleF

    As for the “alleged” spitting incident:

    There’s another oddity about that incident. Cleaver’s office initially claimed that a protester was arrested after spitting on him, but that the congressman decided not to press charges.

    However, U.S. Capitol Police said the protester was never arrested. He was only detained and put in handcuffs, then released.

    Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for the Capitol Police, told FoxNews.com the individual was released because Cleaver couldn’t identify him.

    “There were no elements of a crime, and the individual wasn’t able to be positively identified,” she said. “(Cleaver) was unable to positively identify.”

    Asked about the Capitol Police account, Petrovic said it’s not that Cleaver couldn’t identify the suspect. It’s that he wouldn’t identify the suspect, because the police would have been “obligated” to make an arrest, which he didn’t want.

    “He was aware of that obligation and so did not make an identification,” she said. “He saw who did it and he could have identified that person if necessary. But he chose not to.”

    As for the initial claim that the the individual was arrested, Petrovic said staff members mistakenly presumed he had been arrested because he was in handcuffs.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589776,00.html

  • Rosey

    Ted- said:
    MichelleF – You blithering tea-bagging moron. You are the only person I know that can manage to make a cucumber look like a goddamn genius. You don’t believe Lewis because of the damage it does to you idiot tea-bag types. Either that or you’re a racist asshole; probably both. You make buffoons look like Einstein.

    Wow…that was an intelligent, well thought-out response. OK. Uncle, no really…you win the argument

  • NORBIT

    EXPOSE THEIR LIES, Andrew!
    ——————————————

    ps) Obama & the Democrats are as responsible for the MURDER of the NUN, as the illegal is!

    Remember, a Vote for ANY Democrat is a Vote for Obama!

  • Rosey

    Bill Adkins said:
    No, nutsofast, it’s an issue of credibility – and Andrew Not So Breitbart (are you related?) has none. None – zero-zilch. As a matter of fact, Notsobreibart is a proven liar. g’day.

    You don’t even have evidence, let alone “proof”. All you have is what you wish was true. If you have “proof” where is it???

  • MichelleF

    No Ted, I believe what the lack of evidence tells me. You WANT to believe it happened, but that doesn’t mean it actaully did. Now run along and have the orderly’s give you your meds. You’re sliding off the edge again.

  • vindex2010

    It’s no surprise that when there is 10% unemployment and the leader of your party has a 41% approval rating the race card must be dealt and dealt with extreme prejudice. You must to keep your wavering coalition in a state of fear. The Democratic Party is patched together with victim groups and survives on a “you need us or the other side will enslave you” mentality. They’ve successfully kept the black population voting as a monolith for 50 years based on this fear even though the Republicans freed the slaves, fought against Jim Crow laws and were the majority votes on the Civil Rights Act. Alas, they’ve never recovered from their historically stupid Southern Strategy while the Democrats bear a heavy burden for having helped destroy the black family and create a black underclass. The Democrats disgrace themselves by infantilizing black Americans and the Republicans disgrace themselves by not actively seeking their votes.

  • notsofast

    Bill Adkins said:
    o, nutsofast, it’s an issue of credibility – and Andrew Not So Breitbart (are you related?) has none. None – zero-zilch. As a matter of fact, Notsobreibart is a proven liar. g’day.

    Asshole- he didn’t make the videos!!!

    You must have already got your shot of “no brains” today.

  • Sean68

    A black guy went on a shooting rampage today, killing nine people. This is receiving surprisingly little coverage in the MSM for a work-place rampage shooting. Wonder why…I mean, he could be an angry tea bagger. Actually, I suspect he was an Obama voter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Rosey said:
    You don’t even have evidence, let alone “proof”. All you have is what you wish was true. If you have “proof” where is it???

    notsofast said:
    Asshole- he didn’t make the videos!!! You must have already got your shot of “no brains” today.

    Don’t get out much, do you? Google Sherrod. Andrew Not So Breitbart shopped an edited tape, edited to suit his agenda. He’s a lying piece of shit. And judging you by the old saying, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you,” nutsofast, you’re practically invulnerable. I suggest you learn from your parents’ mistakes – use birth control. I’ve seen people like you, but I had to pay admission.

  • MichelleF

    Bill, once again for you slow people, Breitbart, didn’t EDIT the video, he posted an EXCERPT. Get out your dictionary and look up the difference in those two words, dimwit.

  • juan

    Sic ‘em, Breitbart!

    Make ‘em SQUIRM!

    Gotta LUV it!

  • juan

    vindex2010 said:
    and the leader of your party has a 41% approval rating

    CELEBRATE!

    He’ll be in the 30% range by Labor Day!

    And that is VERY GOOD for America!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    it’s lies like brieitbart, beck’s delusions, and limbaughs crap that speads across the tea party that is really gonna hurt come election time…a quote from the sc rep who got beat by a tea party candidate

    For Inglis, this is the crux of the dilemma: Republican members of Congress know “deep down” that they need to deliver conservative solutions like his tax swap. Yet, he adds, “We’re being driven as herd by these hot microphones—which are like flame throwers—that are causing people to run with fear and panic, and Republican members of Congress are afraid of being run over by that stampeding crowd.” Inglis says that it’s hard for Republicans in Congress to “summon the courage” to say no to Beck, Limbaugh, and the tea party wing. “When we start just delivering rhetoric and more misinformation…we’re failing the conservative movement,” he says. “We’re failing the country.” Yet, he notes, Boehner and House minority whip Eric Cantor have one primary strategic calculation: Play to the tea party crowd. “It’s a dangerous strategy,” he contends, “to build conservatism on information and policies that are not credible.”
    http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/bob-inglis-tea-party-casualty?page=1

  • juan

    ImJustThatDamnGood said:
    I mean a black woman. She will sue you for everything you own.

    Don’t think so! She may be in a heap-o-trouble!

    . . .More to the point, out of about $1 billion paid out so far in settlements, the largest amount has gone to the Sherrods’ New Communities Incorporated, which received some $13 million. As Time Magazine approvingly reported this week, $330,000 was “awarded to Shirley and Charles Sherrod for mental suffering alone.”

    Unwittingly, Charles Sherrod shed light on the how and why of the settlement in a speech he gave in January 2010. As he explained, New Communities farmed its 6,000 acres successfully for seventeen years before running into five straight years of drought. Then, according to Sherrod, New Communities engaged in a three-year fight with the USDA to get the appropriate loans to deal with drought.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/real_sherrod_story_still_untol.html

  • yweston

    Breitbart is a lying propagandist. Bet Fox won’t be sooooo….quick to run his videos in the future.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    yweston: Breitbart is a right wing Hack stuck in Right Wing Hack World. Trying to defend his EDITED lying video. SUE HIS RACIST ARSE SHIRLEY, SUE, SUE, SUE……. (Tea Hee).

    So you are just stuck in Shirleys World ? How sad!

  • MadCharles

    Why bother with an apology ? it’s as meaningless as the NYT itself.
    madcharles.com

  • MadCharles

    It’s all a sherrod anyway

  • yweston

    @MichelleF who said
    Breitbart didn’t edit the video.
    _______________________________________________________________________________________
    Don’t make me laugh. You don’t know what he did. Were you sitting on his lap every second of the day? However give him a call that scared little rabbit would be happy to speak to any “Right Wing” Nutjob NOW. Because Shirley has him on the run. He even told Newsweek he wanted to speak in private with her. But…smartly she ignored his PLEA!!

  • yweston

    @Arthur Clough who said “So you are just stuck in Shirleys World ? How sad!”

    _________________________________________________________________________

    Shirley’s doing a whole lot better than old scared Breitbart. He’s begging her to speak with his lying “propagandist” Arse. His credibility is GONE GONE GONE. Except with the Right Wing Hack Jobs.

  • juan

    Hey, MEDIATE,

    Congrats for making it on DRUDGE!

    NYT issues ‘Tea Party’ correction…

  • MichelleF

    Hey YWeston, how do you feel about your man’s approval being at a whopping 41%!!!! I’ll bet you libs are partying tonight!!

  • yweston

    Poor Breit fart…..on his Twitter Page trying to vilify all the news media for calling him out on his lying Edited Video. Poor poor whining full of crap Breit fart!!

    Every body knows even Republican sympathizer “Chuckie Todd” call Breit fart a right wing Propagandist.

  • yweston

    Wow mediaite made it onto Drudge. What an honor!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

    The Bigger the liar and lies the more the Christian Right defends them!!

  • juan

    yweston said:
    Bet Fox won’t be sooooo….quick to run his videos in the future.

    They are already running (D) Congressman Pete Stark’s video about the Federal Gov’t can do anything they want!

    Breitbart was 1st to post it!

    Thanks, Andrew!

  • vindex2010

    The jobless rate for Blacks ages 16 and older hovered at 15.4 percent last month, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. I’m sure Democrats want to blame Republicans, but it was never close to that number under Reagan, Bush 1 or Bush 2. People conveniently forget that the Democrats have controlled Congress for the last THREE years and they spend all the money. We all know Bush was a lousy president, but where is the accountability?

  • yweston

    @MichelleF…

    It don’t mean a damned thing to me. My man ain’t running for a thing. I could care less.

    Republicans are on their way out….. They got one more good hoorah this November and then they’re in for BIG BIG TROUBLES. I can’t wait!! It will be a scream when reality finally hits you losers.

    How do you feel about the M00siah’s approval rating in the 30′s?? hahahahahahahahah!!

  • yweston

    We missed you this weekend MichelleF. Someone inquired about you. And…I explained you were busy because you received your welfare check and food stamps this weekend. I see you’re back so I guess you’re broke, busted and disgusted again. (Tea Hee). My tax dollars wasted.

  • yweston

    Look at that picture of Breit fart trying to redeem himself. I can’t stop laughing at the KLOWN!!

  • FearMonger

    Republicans are on their way out….. They got one more good hoorah this November and then they’re in for BIG BIG TROUBLES. I can’t wait!! It will be a scream when reality finally hits you losers.
    _____________

    “Reality”. Yup. Can’t wait.

  • MichelleF

    We missed you this weekend MichelleF. Someone inquired about you.

    How sweet of you. I spent the weekend at the lake. No phone, to internet, no reminders of you at all!

  • yweston

    Astrophe Jones said “yweston is ticked because Al Gore did not tip well today”.
    _____________________________________________________________________________________
    You’re NOT talking to “Bristol Palin”. If I did Al Gore I would have a freakin’ mansion!!!

  • yweston

    Buh Bye. I’m finished playing with you right wing losers today. Let me go to the White House site and wish my “WONDERFUL” President Happy Birthday.

    And…you losers can go to Boehners site and buy him another DRINK!!

  • MichelleF

    You’re NOT talking to “Bristol Palin”. If I did Al Gore I would have a freakin’ mansion!!!

    Now I get what you meant by “your clients come to see you”. I’ll admit, that’s not what I thought you did for a living, but to each their own. I’ll bet those quarters really add up!

  • vindex2010

    yweston said:
    Buh Bye. I’m finished playing with you right wing losers today. Let me go to the White House site and wish my “WONDERFUL” President Happy Birthday.

    While you’re there ask him why black unemployment is nearly double that of white Americans and under his watch black male unemployment is at a depression level of 19 percent. It’s Recovery Summer! Not.

  • The Dweller Ysul

    …and the only thing remotely resembling evidence is on Breitbart’s side,…

    That’s not true, Frances. Both sides proffer evidence, and the ear-witness testimony of the Senators and some of the media is certainly as persuasive as Breitbart’s little stunt of posting all kinds of clipped video (yet again!) and offering an non-credible challenge for $100,000. You are right, though, that this still distills to the issue of credibility. On the one hand, we have John Lewis, national hero, and on the other, Andrew Breitbart, lying douchebag. Making Beckian brain-dead face, holding each hand out to the side, teetering, like a giant moronic scale, and assuming Scooby-Doo voice: Huunnh?

    Too, this struck me as not quite right: …23% of whom are minorities,…

    Look, I’ve been to 3 teaparties here in NC, each well attended, and I never saw, all told, 23 minorities, much less 23%. They’ve been nearly exclusively white, heavily elderly, basically retirees hollering about getting the government out of our healthcare…with medicare cards in their wallets. Yeah, idiots.

  • Pablo

    The Dweller Ysul said:
    Both sides proffer evidence, and the ear-witness testimony of the Senators

    There is no testimony from any Senator.

    and offering an non-credible challenge for $100,000

    Why is that “non-credible”? It’s a pretty simple offer.

    On the one hand, we have John Lewis, national hero, and on the other, Andrew Breitbart, lying douchebag.

    John Lewis hasn’t claimed that anyone dropped the N-bomb. And here on the other other hand we have you with no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to any of the facts. You know what it means when you get something wrong? You’re a lying douchebag. Nice standards you’ve got there.

  • Azarkhan

    “On the one hand, we have John Lewis, national hero,” Ysul

    Really? To me, he’s just another old black man.

    “and I never saw, all told, 23 minorities, much less 23%”

    Whose fault is that? If minorities want to attend, they will. If not, they won’t. So what is your point?

  • Sean68

    Sean68 said:
    A black guy went on a shooting rampage today, killing nine people. This is receiving surprisingly little coverage in the MSM for a work-place rampage shooting. Wonder why…I mean, he could be an angry tea bagger. Actually, I suspect he was an Obama voter.

    An addendum: The shooter’s facebook page lists among his “likes”: President Obama.

    Can you imagine how apeshit crazy the media go if it had been a white guy who had killed nine blacks, who had been complaining about black people, and who listed on facebook page Rush Limbaugh as one of his likes?

  • yweston

    Hey MichelleF…

    I couldn’t resist this littel tidbit before I turn my computer off tonight.

    “A Washington post poll: 38 percent of voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate Palin campaigned for, while only 18 percent said her support would make them more likely to vote for that candidate.

  • MichelleF

    You know what’s funny Sean, the only thing I have heard the media say is someone may have said something racial to him. Turns out he was a beer thief and they were about to fire him. The so-called media in this country has become an absolute joke. If this were a tea-partier, that is ALL the media would be talking about, and Fran knows we’re right.

  • yweston

    BTW, MichelleF..
    I didn’t know they take welfare checks and food stamps at Lake Houses……

  • MichelleF

    And yet every R, INCLUDING Palin, was beating BO in the last poll I saw (don’t worry, it was a Gallup poll). What’s your point, westy!?

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    yweston said:
    Astrophe Jones said “yweston is ticked because Al Gore did not tip well today”._____________________________________________________________________________________You’re NOT talking to “Bristol Palin”. If I did Al Gore I would have a freakin’ mansion!!!

    yweston AKA Big Iris AKA Roxy had to get back to her spot on the sidewalk . The fleet just docked .

  • MichelleF

    You better get to work, don’t want someone else stealing your “clients”.

  • MichelleF

    yweston says:
    August 3, 2010 at 7:44 pm yweston(Quote)
    0 0
    BTW, MichelleF..
    I didn’t know they take welfare checks and food stamps at Lake Houses……

    Well, it’s family owned, so it’s a pretty good deal. See, if you work hard, you can do things like buy lake houses.

  • Azarkhan

    “Can you imagine how apeshit crazy the media go…” Sean68

    Mediaite would have had a field day over it. Plus, instead of their constant monitoring of Fox, they would switch over to MSNBC and CNN to get the slanted coverage they would want for that story. We saw that when Andrew Stack flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas. Whole lotta teapartyin’ goin’ on at Mediaite when that shit hit the fan.

    Unfortunately Mr. Stack ended his suicide note with:
    The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
    The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

    Not quite what the Left needed or had in mind.

  • Sean68

    MichelleF said:
    You know what’s funny Sean, the only thing I have heard the media say is someone may have said something racial to him. Turns out he was a beer thief and they were about to fire him. The so-called media in this country has become an absolute joke. If this were a tea-partier, that is ALL the media would be talking about, and Fran knows we’re right.

    This is a good case to show to average people, in clear, stark terms, the extent to which mainstream media bias influences how the news is reported.

  • Sean68

    Rick Sanchez is apparently going with the white-racism-made-him-do-it angle (“He was called…the N-Word!”)The bodies aren’t even cold yet, and Sanchez is already slandering the victims.

  • Azarkhan

    “(“He was called…the N-Word!”)”

    I’m shocked! Shocked! Because we all know that blacks never call whites names.

  • MichelleF

    Personally, I say go for it. If the libs really think this angle is going to do anything but make the public even more outraged at the media/lefts continual cries of racism, they are even stupider that I thought.

  • Sean68

    MichelleF said:
    Personally, I say go for it. If the libs really think this angle is going to do anything but make the public even more outraged at the media/lefts continual cries of racism, they are even stupider that I thought.

    That was kind of my point. You know the media boardrooms are having emergency meetings on how to handle this one. Let’s have that conversation on race!

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Wow, if that story of a black man shooting his co-workers gets out it could actually justify that white fear of blacks Rachael Maddow insists is taking place. . . you know, if every occurance of racial tension was extrapolated onto the national psyche.

  • Azarkhan

    “Rick Sanchez is apparently going with the white-racism-made-him-do-it angle”

    By the time it filters up to Obama, he’ll be blaming Bush.

  • Sean68

    Azarkhan said:
    “Rick Sanchez is apparently going with the white-racism-made-him-do-it angle” By the time it filters up to Obama, he’ll be blaming Bush.

    I’m watching it now. They made reference to his facebook “likes” but they cut off the list so the items can’t be read on the screen. But of the five or six items he lists (basically, violent video games, guns and Obama), the only one they mention is “guns.”

  • felixw

    “A few days ago, the New York Times ran a correction on an article about the Tea Party. In it, they note that there is no proof that Tea Party supporters shouted racial epithets at Congressman John Lewis.”

    I guess I missed the retraction on MSNBC…..How odd that the ideologues there demand retractions from Breitbart, but when they smear him they never correct the record. Remember when they devoted hours of coverage to Breitbart’s role in bugging the office of a U.S. Senator? Sure you do. It was the new Watergate and Maddow, Olbermann and Matthews covered it every evening, night after night. Remember the retraction after all bugging charges were dropped (in fact, they were never filed in the first place because there was zero evidence of wiretapping)? Of course not, because propagandists never feel obliged to correct their lies. They just cover them up with new ones.

  • Azarkhan

    ” the only one they mention is “guns.”

    But of course. Fits in with their narrative of white militias, violent tea partiers, Obama’s BS about white people “clinging to guns and religion”, blah, blah, blah.

    The Left can find the right to have an abortion or a mandate for government-imposed health care in the Constitution, but they seem unable to locate the Second Amendment.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    How do you think they will cover the story of the black church that had its pastor stage a fight in the audience to test the reaction of a white police officer, who was injured during the altercation? Probably will not have near the racial hysteria we are used to being served.

  • lanquihue

    Sean68 said:
    Rick Sanchez is apparently going with the white-racism-made-him-do-it angle (“He was called…the N-Word!”)The bodies aren’t even cold yet, and Sanchez is already slandering the victims.

    Just ignore leftist cries of racism, it’s all they’ve got now, and it just proves how absolutely desperate they are. It’s time to focus now on simply removing them, and we all know that the left has no problem with election fraud. Everyone has to be diligent, now but especially in 2012. Soetoro knows he can’t win, but he’s not willing to go quietly into the night. As we type, he’s planning his fraud and thuggery, if you think about it, you’ll realize it’s true. It’s up to real Americans to not let him do it.

  • Azarkhan

    ” and we all know that the left has no problem with election fraud.” lanquihue

    Exactly. That is the one thing, the only thing, that I worry about in November. Well, actually that and a Republican or two saying something stupid.

  • Sean68

    lanquihue said:
    Just ignore leftist cries of racism, it’s all they’ve got now, and it just proves how absolutely desperate they are. It’s time to focus now on simply removing them, and we all know that the left has no problem with election fraud. Everyone has to be diligent, now but especially in 2012. Soetoro knows he can’t win, but he’s not willing to go quietly into the night. As we type, he’s planning his fraud and thuggery, if you think about it, you’ll realize it’s true. It’s up to real Americans to not let him do it.

    Remember when he removed his campaign website’s safeguards against foreign donations? That got ZERO media attention. McCain had it. But Obama’s website took everything with no concern of verifying who was giving the money and where it came from. The guys from Powerline blog made donations like the following: Osama Bin Laden, Kabul, Afghanistan. The website had the mechanism against fraud, but then they removed it. Go figger.

  • MadamDeb

    Oh, Andrew. Methinks thou dost protest too much.

  • felixw

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    “Being A Teaturd Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry”

    Wow, BFD, as of the current count, you have 2 thumbs up and 71 thumbs down on your post. I guess people just don’t appreciate the genius behind your use of the term “teaturd”.

    I’m curious. Don’t you ever get embarrassed by putting up some infantile posts? Do you think you do the Left any credit by making such a fool of yourself over and over again each day? Or are you just trying to emulate your favorite hosts on MSNBC?

  • More Liberty

    yweston said:
    He was in Philly this past weekend looking STUPID trying to promote diversity in that RACIST MESS they call a Tea Party. I can’t wait until Becka’s soiree this month. All the RACIST will be out screaming I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK. It will be pathetic.

    The M00siah and Ted Nugent and MLK’s. Second rate right wing Hacks.

    You’re a bigot. But I guess that’s ok.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    John Lewis has been asked to repeat his charges on radio and television shows. He has refused. Lewis is a liar and a race baiter. Review his one minute speeches on the floor of the House. He makes Box of Rox look intelligent.
    Jesse Jackson Jr. was recording with a camera as he walked through the crowd. He is seen on video holding a camera in the face of one of the protesters. Where is HIS video evidence?

    Instead of shooting off your mouths about the Tea Party people maybe you should look at the results of the Missouri vote.

    Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March.
    “The citizens of the Show-Me State don’t want Washington involved in their health care decisions,” said Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, one of the sponsors of the legislation that put Proposition C on the August ballot. She credited a grass-roots campaign involving Tea Party and patriot groups with building support for the anti-Washington proposition.
    With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law, includes a provision that would change how insurance companies that go out of business in Missouri liquidate their assets.
    “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Cunningham said at a campaign gathering at a private home in Town and Country. “Citizens wanted their voices to be heard.”

  • jdawg
  • Founders_were_Liberal

    It’s all Bush’s fault.

  • jdawg

    Founders_were_Liberal said:
    It’s all Bush’s fault.

    Of course ;-}

  • LATFTP

    See plenty of examples of Tea Party racism at LATFTP.com

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