The Democrats' media hatchet men ~ By Jack Cashill

Jack Cashill points out that when it comes to the media reporting on the tea parties, their big scam is that it is all about race, which of course, everyone knows, is not the case. Not whatsoever. In fact, the media spin is the same when it comes to the Arizona immigration law recently passed. In fact, ANY TIME there is any dissent about any of Obama's agenda, the media will point out immediately that the dissenters are racist. When is the media establishment going to learn that those of us out here with any common sense think that the race card strategy is really getting old?

As the folks at Eggs and Enlightenment well understood, Cleaver doesn't have to demonize anyone. His hatchet people in the media will do it for him.

Two years ago, Cleaver and the Dems were peddling hope. Today, apparently, all they have left to sell is fear, and the people at McDonald's are beginning to see through it.

By Jack Cashill

Posted: May 06, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Amidst the early morning cacophony at the McDonald's on 14th and Prospect in Kansas City's urban core, Sonny Gibson calls the meeting to order with a gavel that commands attention – the blunt end of a hatchet.

All told, there will be about 50 people in Sonny's audience, perhaps 45 of them black, about half of comparable vintage to Gibson, a veteran local historian.

Gibson leads with a discussion of the issues of the day from all over the world and from all points of view. Despite what the media want you to believe, there is no orthodoxy here.

Although Gibson may wield a literal hatchet, the most dangerous hatchet men are the metaphorical ones who occupy the city's and the nation's newsrooms.

One of their victims has come to McDonald's seeking help. Gibson turns the floor over to him. Jacob Turk, the Republican candidate for Missouri 5th District congressional seat, is clearly distressed.

Backed by the local media, his opponents' people have been spreading the word through the inner city that Turk is a "teabagger" and that tea-party people are little more than soft-core Ku Kluxers.

In trademark blue suit and red tie, the dogged and sincere ex-Marine appeals to his friends at McDonald's. They know him well enough to ignore the smears, and several of those in attendance vouch for Turk's good heart.

About the tea-party movement, they are much more leery. In that I have spoken to tea-party groups in Missouri, Kansas, New Jersey, Florida and California, Turk has asked me to come and set the record straight.

If the movement has a racial "problem," I explain, the problem is that the largely suburban and rural participants are not concerned with race. It is not on their agenda.

The media would have you believe race was their obsession. "Health care," "cap-and-trade," "card check," "debt" – were merely code for race by another name.

The McClatchy Papers report on the Capitol Hill health-care protest of March 20 was an incendiary case in point. Roared the headline, "Tea-party protesters scream 'nigger' at congressman."

Had an extraterrestrial arrived in American a week prior he would have known enough to doubt this accusation. In 2010, even the Aryan Brotherhood would not have risked screaming the N-word on the Capitol steps.

The Kansas City Star, a McClatchy paper, proved more gullible than my extraterrestrial. The Star immediately posted the article with – mercifully – a more benign headline. Still, the body of the article reinforced the original headline.

To stir his readers to outrage, McClatchy hatchet man William Douglas makes iconic civil-rights veteran John Lewis the subject of the abuse. He is the "congressman" alluded to in the headline.

According to Lewis, however, what the protesters shouted was not a racial slur, but "Kill the bill, kill the bill." If Lewis heard anything more derogatory, he does not seem to have told Douglas about it.

Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, who was walking with Lewis, claimed to have heard "maybe 15 people" dropping the N-bomb. In the age of the ubiquitous video camera, this was a preposterously reckless charge.

Douglas likely knew enough to avoid Carson. He identifies only Turk's opponent, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, as having heard the slur. Note the way Douglas runs these sentences together.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard "nigger."

"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff."

Douglas leaves the impression that Cleaver heard a "chorus" of people shouting racial slurs when Cleaver said no such thing.

As to the "scream," none of the multiple video cameras, including the two held by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., walking next to Cleaver, recorded anyone screaming any racial slur. The $100,000 award for proof of even a whispered N-word remains unclaimed.

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