After all, why would the news say so if it didn’t really happen? Well, here’s a weird thing, courtesy of James Taranto at the WSJ:
[The Associated Press’s Jesse] Washington notes that in its March 23 edition, the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News published this interview with Heath Shuler, the local congressman, a Democrat who voted against ObamaCare:
Shuler was walking with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, an African-American, toward the Capitol building when the crowd starting yelling racial epithets at Cleaver, who was a civil rights activist in the 1970s. They even spat at him.
“It was the most horrible display of protesting I have ever seen in my life,” Shuler said.
Multiple members of Congress reported racial epithets being shouted at African-American members over the weekend.
“It breaks your heart that the way they display their anger is to spit on a member and use that kind of language,” Shuler said.
But when we phoned Shuler’s office this afternoon, press secretary Julie Fishman told us the local reporter misunderstood. According to Fishman, Shuler’s comments to the Times-News referred to the general tenor of the protests, not to the black congressmen’s specific allegations.
Fishman said that Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the “N-word.”
Which doesn’t prove it didn’t happen! The burden of proof is on the accused. Just because nobody has taken up Andrew Breitbart’s offer of $100,000 for any evidence, well, that doesn’t mean anything. Maybe nobody wants his dirty money, didja ever think about that? Huh?
And check it out, the Associated Press says the Youtube videos where people are chanting “Kill the bill” but not yelling any racist stuff, those are the “wrong videos”! Which still doesn’t address the complete lack of proof that it happened, but that’s just nitpicking.
It happened because the people who want it to have happened believe it happened. End of story. Stop trying to drag facts into it, you racist.