Oh Brother… Dem Rep Changes Story: I Didn't Hear "N*gger" I Heard "F*ggot"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:47 AM
Whatever he heard Rep. Heath Shuler swears it came from those foul-mouthed, church-going, tax-paying, US flag-toting tea party patriots who assembled in Washington DC to protest the Democrats takeover of the US health care industry.
Heath Shuler now says it wasn’t the n-word he heard, it was fagg*t.
Whatever, Heath.
Blue Ridge Now reported:
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler is distancing himself from comments he made to the Times-News last month, stating he heard racial slurs yelled from a crowd of angry health care protesters outside the U.S. Capitol.
On March 20, black Democratic congressmen John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver said they heard the N-word as they walked to the Capitol to vote on health care. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is gay, said anti-homosexual epithets were yelled at him.
At that time, Shuler told the Times-News he was walking toward the Capitol with Cleaver when protesters began yelling racial epithets at Cleaver.
On Wednesday, Shuler told The Associated Press that he heard slurs against Frank, but not Cleaver.
Oh brother.
Hat Tip Robert D.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
shibumi commented:
Pretty soon he’ll be saying he heard them say “I’ll going to k*ll you.”
What a tool.
Opaobie commented:
Maybe it was voices in his head saying, “Bag it” or “Maggot” or he was thinking about his putting game and he heard “Lag it”…..or maybe he’s just a LIAR.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
-Dems
“We can backtrack now. The damage is done.”
NYT et al will be sure to put the corrections and apologies above the fold, in 34pt. Helvetica.
I’m sure the pastors of thousands of churches will recant what they’ve been telling their parishoners about these white devil Tea Partiers.
Also, I’m positive that the millions who have said, since day one, “They said it. I know they said it. I don’t need any proof. They said it.” will change their minds when they hear this on the evening news and from the mouths of their favorite pop-stars, which I’m also sure they will.
Is my sarcasm – or my cynicism – showing?
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Since the Tea Party is not organized, maybe folks could file separate, individual libel and defamation lawsuits against these people?
Don Rodrigo commented:
As I recall, when he was a QB he wasn’t very good at reading the field and his receivers. The man just can’t figure out anything about crowds, can he? Crowds of people confuse him easily.
Reaganite Republican commented:
And that’s worse than “teabagger”?
Whatever-
drummer commented:
Yesterday at the Santa Fe (NM) tea party, we had infiltrators – one a young man holding a huge sign “Nazi youth for lower taxes” An announcement was made from the platform that he was NOT a tea party person, and the crowd began shouting “go home” – but true to form, the Albuquerque Journal North has a huge photo of him and his sign on today’s front page.
Mitch commented:
Actually, I think that story is true.
ABC News apparently aired a video of it.
But why are people so concerned about one person using a slur against one person?
I mean, yeah, one person out of thousands said it, but it’s not an issue.
down with dems commented:
A witness in a court of law who changed his story so drastically would lose all credibility. This is no different.
Charlie Gibson commented:
Mitch, are you a neophyte regarding politics and the media?
The Elector of Saxony commented:
This guy should go back to bilking his employers out of millions of dollars, and professional “gutless wonder-ing” just like he did in the NFL.
Militant Conservative commented:
Your a Democrat therefore you lie.
mike191 commented:
This is what happens to sacked qbs: The memory ,hearing and cognitive abilities are very weak.
bill-tb commented:
LOL, the liars are having hearing problems … Quite a difference in the two words phonetics.
Andreas K. commented:
Because the N word and f*ggot sound so much alike, yep.
Barney Frank, people really believe what he says?
Mitch commented:
Charlie Gibson, you’re an idiot.
Why do you think that it is so shocking that one person out of thousands would make a slur, especially when it was caught on video?
In fact, the Bawney Fwank thing was caught on video. The video is here:
http://www.towleroad.com/2010/03/teabaggers-call-barney-frank-faggot-at-us-capitol.html
(I link to a racist website, only because this is the first website I could find that had the video. Ignore the racist writing; the video is at the end of the post.)
It’s a non-issue. I don’t know anyone who cares about that particular instance.
Mitch commented:
That being said, I think Shuler might have lied about hearing it, because he wasn’t in the room when it happened, but it clearly happened, as the video shows.
jorgen commented:
This proves that the Dems are hearing voices in their heads. I think Karl Rove is hypnotizing them; for safety, they should keep their tin-foil hats on at all times!
The Joker commented:
Heath, you sucked as Redskins quarterback. Now you come back to Washington for a repeat performance. Put your helmet on before you try to engage in full contact sports.
Fred Fry commented:
The source of all these nasty words is probably their own iPods. Time to pull the earbuds out.
NC Mountain Girl commented:
What these stories will actually accomplish is to remind voters back home of the company Shuler keeps when in DC.
Carol B commented:
Does this remind anyone of when you caught your child doing something wrong and they keep changing their story, hoping you’ll buy it and they’ll get off the hook???
I was there that day, on the steps of the Cannon Office building and this is all trumped up nonsense. People were shouting as the Congressional Black Caucus walked up the steps, but they were shouting “Kill The Bill!” Perhaps, in his shouting some spittle espcaped, but, if so, was not intentional.
Later in the day as we were around the Capitol, some one in the crowd started calling Nancy Pelosi a nasty name and imediately everyone around him, including myself, got on his case and told him that is not what we are about and demanded that he stop, which he did. Believe me if the n word or anti gay words were shouted, TEA Partiers would have reacted and called out the perpetrator. The fact that there is no record of that, in spite of the massive amount of running video cameras in the crowd, on the media and in the hands of the Congressmen’s own staffers, says it all.
squeaky commented:
said or not said – they feel comfortable enough that their base won’t question the rush to judgement sans proof….basing allegations on
real and perceived injustices of the past. extending the benefit of doubt to those who would deny the very same right to others……
ProLifer commented:
I Didn’t Hear “N*gger” I Heard “F*ggot”
WHO CARES???
SHOW ME YOUR BROKEN BONES!
Maria commented:
How could anyone hear f*ggot – they bleeped that part. I don’t believe it unless I hear it. Sorry…don’t trust the MSM. If anyone else got the audio/video without the bleeps – someone post a link. As a matter of fact – I STILL wouldn’t believe it. Before I believe someone called Bawney Fwank a f*ggot or called that Congressman the N-word or spit on him, I would believe those were plants – why else would no one be arrested or identified and scorned by the MSM? Why did the Black Caucus just decide to make their way, together, through the crowd? It’s a setup – brought to you by the same people who brought you the brilliant idea of the crashers. Besides, like a pp said – who cares? Didn’t POTUS use the term teabag people or teabaggers?