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This next post is for people who continue to contact me in an attempt to prove a conspiracy theory regarding the incident of Reps. John Lewis and Andre Carson being called nigger during a Tea Party protest against health care outside the Cannon and Longworth House Office Buildings on on Saturday, March 20, 2010. I was the first to report the incident (via a tweet at http://www.twitter.com/...) after talking with Rep. Andre Carson on March 20 off the floor of the U.S. House. The tone of this post is for my friends in conspiracy-land only. Ive had all manner of assorted ornaments of wingnuttery e-mailing and phoning, well here is my answer...
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AFL-CIO’s TRUMKA: "I heard the N word hurled at John Lewis..." All you conspiracy theorists who were not here in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 20, 2010 but know everything about everything and are right about everything need to pay close attention. Keep writing me and keep contacting me, that’s all good but also: Pay attention to facts and witnesses with direct knowledge over people who sit in TV studios all day. Pay attention to primary sources not hearsay and rumor. In the profession of journalism you learn that the world breaks into two groups of people: Those who were there and are real life actors on the stage of life and those who were not and are seated in the audience. There are people who are primary sources and people who are wanna-be playas who wish they were somebody and have talent only to run their yap. This is important to think about in a world where technology allows people to believe they were present for an event that they have only viewed part of on YouTube.
FIVE PEOPLE. 1. Rep. Andre Carson, 2. Rep. John Lewis, 3. Lewis’ Chief of Staff Michael Collins, 4. Richard Trumka and 5. Rep. David Scott.
With AFL-CIO President Richard Tumka, we now have five people who say they heard the word nigger hurled at Reps. John Lewis and Andre Carson. When you have five people who say something happened that is good enough for a judge in a courtroom in the United States of America. Ask yourself: Why isn’t five people good enough for you? Five people are unlikely to have met together beforehand and decided to lie regarding the word nigger being said to two members of Congress walking to a vote. Taking such an action could easily end the career of any one of the five involved. Yeah, I understand what the Tea Party PR strategy is: Deny it ever happened, claim it’s a lie and hope it catches on. OK good luck with that, but keep in mind the truth contains a power that catapults facts to the surface everytime. Now let’s listen and look at a primary source who was actually there...
Why suddenly do two black people, who by the way are federal public officials, need video tape to prove something happen to them? Sarah Palin simply needs to say "death panels" with zero proof and you believe? Rep. Eric Cantor says a bullet came through the window of his campaign office? You believe. Dick Cheney says there are weapons of mass destruction? You believe.
Need to clear up a few points that keep redundantly being raised:
1. No one needs to justify why they walk across a street. Rep. Michelle Bachmann said, and you buy-in like a naive child, that members could have, "taken the tunnel..." rather than "provoke" Tea Party protesters by walking across a street on the weekend of March 20, 2010. The staggeringly ridiculous implication is that Reps. John Lewis and Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver have to somehow justify walking across the street in the nation’s Capital.
2. Since when do you believe things only when they are on video? Interesting, isn’t it, this theory that one can only believe what is on video. The signing of the Constitution wasn’t on video.
3. There were not 10,000 video cameras. Yeah brace yourself: Not EVERYONE has a video camera. Also: Not EVERYONE has a video camera that is on ALL the time recording EVERY second of every member walking across a street. I was there in the street outside on Saturday, March 21, 2010. Not every man, woman and child was holding up a video camera recording every member of Congress walking across the street. This is completely false notion advanced over and over by someone who was not there.
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