A day late and a dollar short, but better than nothing.
The New York Times corrects itself.
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.
Any other bastions of mainstream media feel like being honest today?
Yeah, I thought not.
” …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.”
Sorry, that’s BS, it implies that there were epithets but they can’t be verified as coming from Tea Party members. Which isn’t what happend and makes this bogus correction a non-correction.
There is no evidence of epithets being uttered by anyone, no recordings of the event revealed any epithets. Period.
What absolutely slays me about the media/leftie response to the Tea Party thing is when they ask “What’s the Tea Party’s official position on racism/gay marriage/free speech/the war in Iraq/whatever?”
They can only think in terms of big official top-down groups. Real grassroots activism just baffles these people. They only know their own Official Position because Soros told them what it was. The idea of a bunch of people coming together spontaneously with no real common cause other than “Get off our backs!” is completely foreign to them.
These newsweasels don’t want to admit they were willingly snookered by the racebaiters in congress, who flat lied about there being ANY racial epitaphs uttered.