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May 9, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 16

McClatchy News was responsible for the single worst story reporting the allegations of Reps. Andre Carson, John Lewis. Emanuel Cleaver and James Clyburn that Tea Party protesters abused black congressmen with racial epithets while demonstrating against Obamacare on Capitol Hill on March 20. The story is “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen.” We believe that the congressmen’s story was a fabrication intended to defame the Tea Party movement »
May 6, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 15

Reader Todd B. continues to engage McClatchy News investigative editor James Asher on McClatchy’s March 20 “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen” story. Todd B. wrote Asher last night: Since you have not given me an answer, I am left to assume that you have no good answer. If this is the case, would it be so hard, at this point, for McClatchy to simply run a follow-up »
May 5, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 14

Following up on our recent posts with the correspondence of McClatchy News investigative editor James Asher, reader Todd B. wrote Asher: You may not wish to hear anymore from people like myself, but I would very much like to ask you a few questions, and to briefly comment on a statement of yours. I have been following your correspondence with a writer for Power Line regarding McClatchy’s coverage of the »
May 4, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 13

Over the weekend we received an email message from McClatchy News DC investigative editor James Asher promoting a current McClatchy story. Of all the news outlets that covered the fabricated March 20 story of Reps. Carson, Cleaver, Clyburn and Lewis regarding the racial abuse to which they (Carson and Lewis, anyway) were subjected by Tea Party/Obamacare protesters on Capitol Hill, McClatchy’s “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen” may »
May 2, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 12

Yesterday we received an email message from McClatchy News DC investigative editor James Asher promoting a current McClatchy story. Of all the news outlets that covered the fabricated March 20 story of Reps. Carson, Cleaver, Clyburn and Lewis regarding the racial abuse to which they (Carson and Lewis, anyway) were subjected by Tea Party/Obamacare protesters on Capitol Hill, McClatchy’s “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen” may have been »
May 1, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 11

This morning we received an email message from McClatchy News DC investigative editor James Asher promoting a current story. Of all the news outlets that covered the fabricated March 20 story of Reps. Carson, Cleaver, Clyburn and Lewis regarding the racial abuse to which they were subjected by Tea Party/Obamacare protesters on Capitol Hill, McClatchy’s may have been the worst: “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen.” As we »
April 27, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 10

On March 20 the McClatchy news organization faithfully served up the story peddled by Reps. Emanuel Cleaver, Andre Carson, John Lewis and James Clyburn: “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen.” There is just one problem with the congressmen’s story and McClatchy’s account of it: it didn’t happen. Since they were out peddling their story on March 20 and immediately afterwards, a funny thing has happened to the prominent »
April 26, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 9

I have been meaning to write a wrap-up in our miniseries on the Democratic fabrication captured in the March 20 McClatchy headline: “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen.” Andrew Breitbart has beaten me to the punch with his review of the evidence in “No more beer summits: Tea Party ‘N’ word incident didn’t happen, and the Congressional Black Caucus owes America an apology.” Andrew has also posted a »
April 15, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 8

In part 6 of our Don’t Leave It to Cleaver miniseries we took a look at the AP’s review of the case of the missing “N-word” arising from the claim that Obamacare protesters subjected Reps. Emanuel Cleaver, John Lewis and Andre Carson to racial abuse as they walked through the crowd outside the Capitol on March 20. One could deduce the lack of any supporting evidence to support the congressmen’s »
April 14, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 7

Reader Greg Farrell writes in response to “Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 5″ and “Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 6.” My name is Greg Farrell and I would like you to know I have been exchanging emails challenging Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander and his version of the incidents concerning Rep Lewis and Rep Carson. I was there at the foot of the Cannon Building. Here is the »
April 13, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 6

The Associated Press has now reported the controversy underlying the assertion that Obamacare protesters subjected Reps. Emanuel Cleaver, James Clyburn, John Lewis and Andre Carson to racial abuse as they walked through the crowd to the Capitol on March 20. According to the AP, the “wrong video” (of congressmen walking from rather than to the Capitol) has spurred the controversy. The focus of the AP story is misplaced, but the »
April 12, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 5

if you’ve been following the case of the racial slurs fabricated on March 20 by black Democratic congressmen seeking to tar the Obamacare protesters on Capitol Hill, you know that media outlets instantly broadcast the allegations as facts based on a press release and/or statements made by Reps. James Clyburn, Emanuel Cleaver, John Lewis and Andre Carson. Andrew Breitbart has offered a reward now up to $100,000 for anyone who »
April 4, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 4

As John notes in “The Democrats’ fake hate crime,” we have followed closely one of the biggest scandals of the past year: the Democrats’ false claim that anti-Obamacare protesters hurled racial epithets at three black Democrats who waded into their protest in the apparent hope of stimulating such a response. The Democrats failed but decided to lie and pretend that they had been racially abused. The video below does a »
April 3, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 3

Leave it to Andrew Breitbart: I smelled a rat so I offered at first $10k five days after the highly publicized alleged incidents happened. How could we be five full news cycles into this major controversy and not have any evidence? In fact, the existing footage showed the Congressional Black Caucus walking and never once moving their heads toward any “racist outbursts.” Is it conceivable that all of them stoically »
April 2, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver, part 2

We wrote about the claim that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver had been spit on and other black congressmen had been subject to racial abuse in “Don’t leave it to Cleaver” and in several other posts. These allegations remain lacking in any shred of proof beyond the say-so of the congressmen involved. What’s wrong with that? Among other things, one of the involved congressmen is Rep. James Clyburn, a member of the »
March 23, 2010 — Scott Johnson

Don’t leave it to Cleaver

Democratic partisans and their mainstream media adjunct have sought to brand the Tea Party resistance to the Obama administration as racist and bigoted. Democratic congressmen alleged over the weekend that they were subjected to racist and bigoted epithets at the Tea Party-inspired rally protesting Obamacare at the Capitol. Fox News reported the allegations as facts, even though not a single video documenting the rally supports the allegations. Fox News took »
June 13, 2006 — Scott Johnson

Who is Keith Ellison? (8)

Keith Ellison is the DFL (Democratic)-endorsed candidate for Minnesota’s Fifth District congressional seat. On Sunday I wrote here about the February 2000 speech Ellison gave on behalf of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Soliah/Sara Jane Olson at a fundraiser sponsored for Solian/Olson by the National Lawyers Guild. At the time of the fundraiser, Soliah/Olson had been a fugitive from justice for 25 years, avoiding prosecution on charges related to »