Black Caucus Blogger: Better Cameras Would Have Picked Up N-Word at Tea Party Protest
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 5, 2010, 12:24 AM
Blogger Doug Ross interviewed Lauren Victoria Burke, the “unofficial blogger of the Congressional Black Caucus” (CBC), on the fabricated racial attacks on Black Caucus members by tea party patriots on Capitol Hill last month. Burke was the first member of the democratic-media complex to report on the bogus attacks. The Black Caucus members and their media lapdogs have yet to produce any evidence that a racial attack occurred on March 20th. There is currently a $100,000 reward for proof of a racist attack on the Congressional members.
Several people, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. filmed the entire episode and could not find any evidence of racist hate.
Jackson found nothing.
The Black Caucus members have still not apologized for their outrageous accusations.
This was a remarkable interview. Burke blamed the quality of video equipment for not picking up the n-word being shouted 15 times by the protesters.
Doug Ross: There are more than a dozen videos of various portions of the walk both to and from the Capitol, and no one has been able to pinpoint any racial epithets. Even Rep. Jackson seemed to be videotaping. Do you think it’s concerning there is no evidence of the allegations in an age where virtually every second in public is taped?
Lauren Victoria Burke: What I think about recording in this situation… I really don’t know if the sound any particular sound would be picked up. Remember, a lot of these are flip-phones or small digital cameras, not exactly heavy-duty professional microphones. One thing that doesn’t come across is is how loud it was out there.
A unidirectional mike wouldn’t necessarily capture it. It was a wall of sound and, while some of the tapes I’ve heard are better than others, I’m not that impressed by the theory advanced by Mr. Hannity and Mr. Breitbart that it had to be recorded to have happened…
Ross: Actually, the reports I’ve seen indicate that no one was arrested, and the media was off-base on that, and that there are disputes that the incident actually took place. How do you see it?
Burke: What happened was that the Capitol Police grabbed who Cleaver thought it was, but he didn’t want to ID the wrong person. Now the Capitol Police are allowed to hold someone for 45 minutes without charges and they did so, but released him because Cleaver just wasn’t sure.
Now this is a felony assault, this spitting incident, and a lot of the attorneys on staff were very upset. The police should have pursued an assault claim, since this was a federal official it was a felony. But Cleaver was unsure that was the right person and decided to drop it.
Actually, Cleaver backtracked on his spitting accusation late last week.
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thebronze commented:
Burke is a bald-faced liar.
The US Capitol Police didn’t “grab” anyone. The guy in the white baseball hat was still standing there after the alleged “incident”.
Racist. Liars.
Gman commented:
Can we just say they were walking through the Tea Party crowd yelling “f-you and your constitution all you cracker bastards”? We have just as much evidence. I say we go with it.
Not Intimidated commented:
I’m not that impressed by the theory advanced by Mr. Hannity and Mr. Breitbart that it had to be recorded to have happened…
Who cares if you’re impressed or not? This little stunt backfired badly, and the Democrats will pay dearly in a matter of months.
And as long as we’re being brutally frank, we’ve seen the last black president for at least a century. Why? Because the Democrats used his race to try and bludgeon us into submission.
The electorate will avoid this risk in the future by not electing any more black presidents for a long, long time. A harsh but effective solution to the problem of race baiting.
Gman commented:
And as long as we’re being brutally frank, we’ve seen the last black president for at least a century. Why? Because the Democrats used his race to try and bludgeon us into submission.
You are so right. They have pretty much ruined the chances of any black person becoming president again for a long long tome.
Opus #6 commented:
It is not right to accuse everybody of racism when we disagree with obama’s agenda. This meme will backfire badly. Citizens are tired of the pain and mess and will avoid it in the future.
Although I can see myself voting for Allen West if given the chance….
Mrgoodwench commented:
So the story of the CBC white-hating racists is :-
1. Those people had lousy cameras
2. Those people were very loud
3. Those people were at fault because they didn’t record it
4. The police were at fault because they didn’t arrest anybody, somebody , on some charges
5. So what if Cleaver is clueless and nothing happened, someone should be punished. He doesn’t know who should be punished or for what , but someone should be punished. Afterall a few black lawyers are upset .
kato commented:
These clowns should call Apple, Motorola et al, and demand that they make more race-sensitive cellphones.
Jackie commented:
I don’t understand why the leaders of the Tea Party movement don’t sue the state controlled media (for spreading these lies), the lying Black Congressional Congress and the Democratic party for libel and slander.
These powerful elected government representatives lied about common citizens, and because race was involved this should also be investigated as a hate crime against the white tea party members. Clearly these powerful black government officials were trying to silence these common American citizens right to free speech in a dishonest and reprehensible fashion.
Where are the conservative lawyers? Are we going to allow this to stand?
Not Intimidated commented:
Although I can see myself voting for Allen West if given the chance….
West is a great man. I’d vote for him, too. But he would have to essentially prove to us that his race isn’t and never will be an issue.
As soon as Michael Steele became head of the RNC, he started saying things like, “Yeah, bay-buh! Yeah, bay-buh!” and living like M. C. Hammer with our donations.
It has to stop. We expect much better from people, regardless of their skin color.
Lex commented:
Holy smokes are they desperate to push this meme or what?
Mark commented:
The entire accusation is a lie! I didn’t hear any such comments! With all the cameras and recording equipment present nobody filmed or heard anything.
The Black Caucus told a blatant lie! A fake “race card” accusation to slur the Tea Party activists.
Shame on the Black Caucus. The White Caucus should have spoken up… oh wait, there is no White Caucus.
Sickofobama commented:
Gee, just think it’s 2010, a black man is POTUS, technology is state-of-the-art, there were videos rolling everywhere and yet technology failed that fateful day.
They’re going to run with this until the 15th and then they will probably have plants infiltrate Tea Parties across the nation to have someone mix into a bunch of legit tea partiers and yell the “N” word so a video camera can pick it and then Obama’s media can say “See, we told you those tea baggers were a bunch of KKK members”.
Andreas K. commented:
Dear Lauren Victoria Burke,
If somebody would have yelled the N word, any modern day cell phone with camera would have recorded it. Same with the spitting. The quality of recordings on such cell phones is amazing these days.
And judging from the photos of the event, there weren’t only cell phone cams anyway.
Lauren Victoria Burke, you are a liar.
nadadhimmi commented:
But you all just don’t understand do you! Burke and her ilk are black and this frees them of the responsibility of having anything so raaacist as mere proof. They’re black, they deemed someone raaaacist, so the accused stand guilty without evidence!! Do you understand what it’s like to live in America today?? Kafka anyone?
NeoKong commented:
Oh negro please…..
The CBC specifically marched through the crowd to incite the protesters. They were on a hunt for the n-word like it was an Easter egg.
If anyone was shouting that word they would have zeroed in on him like a missile.
This lie has been very publicly discredited and yet she still speaks it.
Where is the shame….?
No Man commented:
In America, there is no native criminal class except congress and African-American politicians.
Aussie commented:
They are so desperate that they cannot let go of the lie. This lie is nothing more than blood libel. They thought that they were so clever but they got caught out.
I agree that the protesters who were there should file a class action suit against the Black Caucus for defamation. They should include all the bloggers such as Huffpo that have continued with the meme in the class action suit. Nico Pitney should definitely be sued because he lied with his tweets.
Militant Conservative commented:
Whites, Blacks and Racist Democrats. Buy it.
USMC Thomas commented:
What’s interesting about the “spitting video” is Jackson filmed the man in the white hat, turning to keep the cellphone on him as he passed. Cleaver, following behind was on a direct collision course with the alleged spitter and seemed determined to walk into or over him.
squeaky commented:
not too much falling back on their own prejudices or anything is there. when you’re guilty until proven innocent-even then this
whole incident will be a “talking point” to buffer
obama’s decisions from the reality of criticism.
squeaky commented:
as long as there is so much as a nano second of the event not taped there will be a presumption of guilt. people need to beware if
this becomes the new standard of justice. how
do you begin to prove your innocence when people want to believe your guilt and don’t need
proof – kangaroo court time.
Flyover Sam commented:
The positive aspect of this event is that it’s a redundant nail in the coffin on racism. Congratulations America, you’re post-racial.
When former minorities (we cannot refer to them as such any longer as the actual minorities respective to power and control are conservatives) throw out racism charges from a position of dominance in a means to disparage, discredit and silence a powerless minority, it’s not just post-modern: it’s post-racial.
It’s remarkably curious that in the same news cycle it was reported that in South Africa, the majority-former-minority has embraced rhetoric that has sent machete killers out to eradicate hundreds of white farmers. Majority and minority are structurally inverted when these moments are signified.
daryl commented:
Leftist Liberal Belief
A lie repeated verbatim long enough trumps the truth every time. Or at least enough times to serve the leftist liberal’s purpose.
You don’t have to fool ALL of the people. Just enough of them to get your guy elected.
Chisum commented:
Great Black Patriots In The House Of Representatives
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/04/04/great-black-patriots-in-the-house-of-representatives/
Zachriel commented:
Not Intimidated: And as long as we’re being brutally frank, we’ve seen the last black president for at least a century. Why? Because the Democrats used his race to try and bludgeon us into submission.
Gman: You are so right. They have pretty much ruined the chances of any black person becoming president again for a long long tome.
Nope. No racism here.
Valerie commented:
They’re just following Maureen Dowd’s example: they heard what they wanted to hear.
Some people would call that lying. It is, at best, self-delusion resulting from race prejudice.
Militant Conservative commented:
Better men would not cry like babies (IF) such language was used. Dem’s are sooooo predictable.
WE the TPM are coming for you lying libtards. WE are the power not you. November 2nd is very close.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#28 Zachriel
Looking for it?
I don’t think that’s racist on the part of either poster you quoted. I think that’s realistic cynicism.
Georg Felis commented:
We are allowed to chose between the following:
1) The Word of Unspeakable Offense was shouted in the crowd, but the giant collection of video equipment was unable to pick it up.
2) A number of Democrat congressmen lied.
Gee, that was easy….
jainphx commented:
The story of lying liars, and of course it’s the Demoncrap party. There are no bigger liars on earth. How can anyone ever believe anything these people say ever again.
The motto of the Demoncrap party: “Why tell the truth when a lie will work better” Goebels would be proud!
DKN commented:
So…lack of evidence is evidence. I do hope Ms. Burke never gets tried for a crime on such terms. Or maybe she should; it would be enlightening to say the least.
Slappy commented:
Zachriel
April 5th, 2010 | 7:26 am | #28
Not Intimidated: And as long as we’re being brutally frank, we’ve seen the last black president for at least a century. Why? Because the Democrats used his race to try and bludgeon us into submission.
Gman: You are so right. They have pretty much ruined the chances of any black person becoming president again for a long long tome.
Nope. No racism here.
Sure thing, genius. So now it’s racist to point out the fact that crying “racism” by the Left will have a negative impact on the viability of future black candidates, especially those on the Left?!? The irony is that you, a Leftist, made sure to call the two of them racist, which supported their basic contention that the Left resorts to calling the Right racist when they can’t defend their points of view effectively and persuasively. See, most of us know that confident, qualified people of any race or ethnicity usually don’t need to resort to falsely insulting or denigrating their opponents, unless they have no substantive response and/or are trying to cover up their own failings.
How many times can you and others resort to that accusation — sometimes accurately but much more often falsely — before it loses its impact anyway? I think it’s already happening. All your actions do is obscure actual racism and angers us conservatives that have lived our entire lives in the real world — i.e., offline and away from the world of politics — illustrating that we actually judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Like mind-number robots, morons like you and the rest of the race baiters on the Left like to toss out the racist allegation without having any idea about our backgrounds and our friendships and positive dealings with people of all races and ethnicities. I’m aggravated because clowns like you are the ones that always focus on the race and ethnicity of people rather than their character and actions. Your behavior — and the behavior of your Leftist brethren — is hateful and pathetic.
bg commented:
++
there were numerous cameras, not to mention tape recorders (last man in black caucus line was holding one up, you couldn’t miss it), or TV crews on hand..
coulda woulda shoulda does not equal “did”..
besides, the idiot is forgetting that there
were NO EAR WITNESSES either, duh!!
==
Eden commented:
These people clearly don’t understand what being spat on really means. They should be forced to watch the opening clips of Cheaters to see what a real spitter looks like.
Maria commented:
“But Cleaver was unsure that was the right person and decided to drop it.”
We all look alike to him…
Not Intimidated commented:
Nope. No racism here.
You apparently have a reading-comprehension problem, which doesn’t surprise me. Here’s the context of my statement, which you were unable to grasp:
The Democrats have used the presidents race as a club to try and beat his opponents into submission. In order to defend themselves from handing the unscrupulous Democrats this weapon, the electorate will not elect a black president again for a very long time.
That’s self-preservation, not racism. The the GOP was race baiting in order to pass a radically conservative agenda, you wouldn’t put up with it, either.
USMC Thomas commented:
There are ways to tweak recordings to isolate and magnify sound, but you can’t tweak that which has not been spoken. If it existed, MSM would have run with it immediately.
I’ll hand it to to libturds, their the masterbaiters of race baiting.