The media is so left leaning it is a miracle they haven't fallen over on their side.

Then congress is so blind and deaf to their constituents desires that they have no clue of how much they are f'ing up.

If they could have held the ObamaCare vote until after Easter -- it probably would have failed.

It boils down to this:

We are so fucked.

I didn't hear a single instance of "nigger!" All I could hear was "kill the bill!"

People need to be reminded that they don't just have to pick from the D or the R lane.

They do if they want their votes to count for anything. Libertarians generally don't win.

Based on what we know now, the article was almost certainly written before the fact. The CBC's approach to the Capital through the middle of the Tea Party crowd was a deliberate provocation; they had pre-coordinated media coverage with the expectation that certainly there would be racial abuse and perhaps even an assault. When those things failed to happen, they were left in a bind. The answer was to bare-face it: damn the facts, publish the pre-written narrative anyway and depend on friendly treatment from the JournoListers (at least some of who may have known in advance what the plan was) to ensure that their version of the story would not be questioned.

Three words kishke:

Self Fulfilling Prophesy

In the Tea Party Express video, I love the moments when the persons at the microphone merrily and contemptuously sneer at the media persons who are arguing with them. The left and the media deserve to be sneered at, laughed at, ridiculed without mercy.

I read where Mickey Kaus said of Cathy Seipp (quoting from memory): "She was just so grouchy. She just wouldn't take any shit from anybody." Those of us who believe in small gov need to take a lesson from Cathy Seipp. We ought not be polite with persons who are strategically skewing facts. Such persons are not seeking truth, and we ought not treat them as serious persons. We ought not be polite with persons who are strategically abandoning reason. Again: not seeking truth, and we ought not treat them as serious persons.

If a person is not seeking truth, reasoned argument is not going to win that person over to the truth. Scorn is actually more likely to open that person's eyes. Scornful humor is maybe the best option of all.

The news should report what happens instead of making stuff up or skewing it out of all belief. The Tea Party has been very non-violent, and they should be applauded for demonstrating the way it should be done.

The other news organizatoins are going to lose out to Fox News more and more as people wise up unless the other newscasters start reporting fairly. Fox might have a right bias, but they constantly give air time to people with left and right points of view.

The Tea Party movement is a loose collection of citizens who don't like public policy. The MSM devotes great energy to uncovering any racism that may be hiding there, and discovers little or none.

On the other hand, the Congressional Black Caucus is a proud, openly racist organization, which is part of our government at the higest level. Is it possible to have greater irony?

The CBC is not merely organized to consider the supposedly special interests of their "black" constituents. They won't admit a "white" congressman to membership, regardless of who he or she represents.

The Congressional Black Caucus is an official group of congressmen and senators. They require black skin to be a member.

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Wikipedia [edited]: The Black Caucus allows only black members.

Representative Pete Stark (D-Ca, White) tried and failed to join the Black Caucus in 1975. Stark: "I felt we shared an interest to help people in poverty. Half my Democratic constituents are African American. The Black Caucus voted no. They said that I was white, and they wanted the group to be limited to African Americans."
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Politico: Whites Not Allowed
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[edited] In January 2007, Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN, White) pledged to apply for membership in the Black Caucus to better represent his 60% black constituents.

Although the bylaws of the Caucus do not make race a prerequisite for membership, former and current members of the Caucus agreed that the group should remain "exclusively black."

Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D-Mo., Black) is the son of Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr. (D-Mo., Black) a co-founder of the Caucus. "Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and he got his answer. He's white and the Caucus is black. It's time to move on. We have racial policies to pursue and we are pursuing them, as Mr. Cohen has learned. It's an unwritten rule. It's understood."
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Above, I have put "black" and "white" in quotes in some cases, because my view is that race is not important, and people cannot be reliably identified by race. For example, is Obama "black" or "white"? What are all of the measurements and weightings that would go into that calculation?

I have listed the party affiliations of congressmen in the form (D-Mo., Black/White) as a mockery of our current politics of race affiliation.

Please read the following article so you might inform yourself.

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/black-powers-gonna-get-you-sucka-right-wing-paranoia-and-rhetoric-modern-racism

Please read the following article so you might inform yourself.

Who, and of what? Are you not able to think of and articulate a comment on the blog item above, so you just toss in a link? Perhaps work on reasoning and articulation and then post.

It doesn't matter as much as it once did. The media have been caught lying so often that my default position is to expect proof of anything controversial.

Even then, I am skeptical. The last Texas Air National Guard memo has yet to be written.

Hear about this one:

Media Matters Gives Glenn Beck’s Co-Hosts The Shirley Sherrod Edited Audio Treatment (Update)

There's still a part of this story that nobody will touch: John Lewis and his entourage LIED. It's been long enough that we know that no corroboration of their story is going to show up, and there's plenty of audio footage floating around.