Emanuel Cleaver
“My hope is that they will come out tomorrow and repent,” the right reverend Emanuel Cleaver told his fellow reverend Al Sharpton last week…
The “they” in question are Republicans. Apparently, they need to “repent” for criticizing Obama.
Repentance begins at home, and our favorite Missouri congressman has much to repent for, the car wash scam being the least of his sins. Much uglier was Cleaver’s role in “Spittlegate,” a racial incident he helped manufacture to defame the tea party and further divide the nation.
In March 2010, protestors gathered on Capitol Hill to protest the impending passage of Obamacare. That afternoon a few members of the Black Caucus, including Andre Carson of Indiana and civil rights icon John Lewis, chose to skip the tunnel and walk through the gathered crowds.
As Carson told reporters, he and Lewis were “walking down the steps” of the Cannon Office Building when they heard ‘n-word, n-word,’ at least fifteen times, hundreds of people.” This was nuts. When questioned on specifics, Carson reduced the hundreds of people to “maybe fifteen,” who were shouting “Kill the bill, then the n-word.”
This was still nuts.
On the return to the Cannon Office Building, Cleaver, the chair of the Black Caucus, joined his colleagues. They walked unmolested up the Cannon steps until Cleaver passed right in front of a man shouting “kill the bill” through cupped hands.
The shouter “allowed saliva to hit my face,” Cleaver would later tell the Washington Post.
William Douglas
Visibly angry, he poked his finger in the man’s face.
About a minute after the incident, Cleaver returned to the scene of the presumed crime with a police officer. As the video made embarrassingly clear, Cleaver failed to recognize the man who was still shouting “kill the bill.” Cleaver and the officer then headed back up the steps.
Less than 90 minutes after the group’s return to the Cannon Building, William Douglas, a black reporter for the liberal McClatchy Newspapers, posted a story that would have made Lenin proud. Its inflammatory headline read, “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressman.”
When interviewed, Lewis told Douglas he heard protestors shouting, “Kill the bill, kill the bill.” Douglas then referred to Carson not by name but as “a colleague” who accompanied Lewis. Carson reportedly told Douglas that he heard, “Kill the bill, then the n-word.”
Given the video and audio evidence, one can see Douglas’s reporting for the agitprop it was. Lewis never heard the word “nigger.” If he had, Douglas surely would have shared that quote with the reader.
Instead, Douglas slid the accusatory burden onto Cleaver who claimed to have heard one person say “nigger” one time, a claim that would have been much harder to disprove.
Douglas also implied that Cleaver was walking with Lewis from the Cannon Office Building to the Capitol when this happened, but he was not.
Cleaver accompanied Lewis only on the way back, which suggests that there should be evidence of racial slurs. Despite the late Andrew Breitbart’s offer of a $100,000 reward for such a video, none has emerged either coming or going.
Yael
That afternoon Cleaver’s office had put out a press release saying, “The man who spat on the congressman was arrested, but the congressman has chosen not to press charges.”
“There were no elements of a crime, and the individual wasn’t able to be positively identified,” Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the US Capitol Police would tell Fox News.
The video clearly supported the police.
None of this mattered to Kansas City Star editorial page columnist, Yael Abouhalkah
He made the toxic claim that “some tea party supporter spat on Cleaver Saturday on Capitol Hill because the U.S. congressman is black.” (italics added)
To aggravate the racial tension, Abouhalkah repeated as fact the canard that “someone spat on [Cleaver], while the word ‘nigger’ was used to describe Cleaver and other black congressmen.”
Even after it became apparent to anyone who cared to know that Carson and pals made the whole thing up, the media’s heaviest hitters continued to pound away at the tea party.
A few days after the incident Cleaver himself spoke to Washington Post metro columnist Courtland Milloy about the man “who allowed saliva to hit my face.” Said the Post columnist of the protestors, “I want to spit on them, take one of their ‘Obama Plan White Slavery’ signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.”
And to think that just two years earlier dissent was not something for which one had to repent but was instead downright “patriotic.”
At least least what the bumper stickers said.
I can no longer vote against this man. He conveniently is no longer my congressman. With the help of republicans in the state legislature I’ve been gerrymandered into a district where again I am not represented.
Cleaver is a loser. You only have to read about his failed car wash to realize he’s a crook.
Cleaver did nothing to solved black-on-black violence while mayor of KC. He’s done nothing as a US Congressman other that stir up racial tensions with Al Sharpton.
He’s been reelected only because he’s black. He has no record of helping the district. He’s only spending time building up his retirement.
One more thing. I will NEVER understand how a man of the cloth supports abortion. He’s total scum in my book.
I honestly, don’t understand how this guy gets re-elected time after time after time.
Mostly because during elections season you never see him going east of the stadiums or south of Bannister Road. Voters in Lee’s Summit, Independence, Blue Springs never see’s this guy. Let alone towns in Ray, Layette and Saline County.
I guess Cleaver would think he would have to answer tough questions if he went outside the friendly confines of KCMO.
Sorry, but you are naive. Cleaver only represent black people — he doesn’t give a damn about people who are not his skin color.
He is not one bit different than the President’s number one advisor, Al Sharpton.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895985/Al-Sharpton-paid-thousands-dollars-not-cry-racism-large-corporations-claimed.html
all thepoliticians/nationalparties/congressmen/governors etc. are
for sale chuck.
Its called influence peddling and essentially its illegal but they
all get money for influence..passing bills…vetoing bills etc…
so Sharpton is no different than therest of these crooks.
Total Bullsh&t.
wrong again…go check the campaign finance reports
and see where these clowns money came from and how
they vote.
They’re all the same chuck….find me a politician who
holds elective office and you can easily find the
correlatijon between their voting…the influence in
help donors….their votes that make no sense based
on their constituentwished.
Ya see the guy who just went to jail…congressman..
wanted to be a congressmanwhile he spent his time
in jail. did you read what he said…’WE ALL DO IT”””
its one big bagof money they’re splitting up while
the nation wonders WHAT HAPPENED? aND ITS
GOTTEN WORSE SINCE CITIZENS UNITED…
Everyone thinks its the rtepublicans who are getting
all the cash…but the dems are beating them.
in 2016 you’ll see so much money flow from foreign
sources (Europe/middle east/asia that it will make
our heads swim.)
these donors don’t just give the crooks money…
they give it away because they’re looking for influence
and help getting laws passed that give them an
advantage….I worked in d.c….its all over the place!!!!
I do agree that the Democrats get the cash.
One of the great misconceptions in American politics is that Republicans are the party of the rich. That title belongs to the Democrats, who regularly garner the big bucks of America’s moneyed elite. David Elliott of the AP reports:
For as often as Democrats attack the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch for their heavy spending on politics, it’s actually the liberal-minded who shelled out the most cash in the just completed midterm elections.
At least, that is, among those groups that must disclose what they raise and spend.
Among the top 100 individual donors to political groups, more than half gave primarily to Democrats or their allies. Among groups that funneled more than $100,000 to allies, the top of the list tilted overwhelmingly toward Democrats — a group favoring the GOP doesn’t appear on the list until No. 14.
The two biggest super PACs of 2014? Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC — both backing Democrats.
In all, the top 10 individual donors to outside groups injected almost $128 million into this year’s elections. Democratic-leaning groups collected $91 million of it.
Among the 183 groups that wrote checks of $100,000 or more to another group, Democrats had a 3-to-1 cash advantage. The biggest player was the National Education Association, at $22 million. Not a single Republican-leaning group cracked the top 10 list of those transferring money to others.
Overall, for the campaign season that just ended, donors who gave more than $1 million sent roughly 60 cents of every dollar to liberal groups. Among the 10 biggest donors, Democrats outspent Republicans by an almost 3-to-1 margin.
There are a number of reasons why the rich tend to support the Democrats. One is the protection racket. Democrats are the party that demagogues class warfare rhetoric. Supporting them buys a degree of immunity. The left’s dominance of cultural institutions means that social prestige as well as political benefit flows in the direction of those who “fight the good fight” (as the left sees it) by supporting the Democrats. Although the Koch brothers lavishly support various cultural institutions, their support for conservative/libertarian causes has made their names anathema in much of the cultural and media establishment.
The Democrats are also the party of Big Government, and the mega-rich often fnd themselves in a position to benefit from BG programs. A little subsidy here, a loan guarantee there, tax breaks for following the will of the social engineers – it all adds up.
By supporting the political party of the left, some people feel redeemed for their greed, misdeeds, and lack of personal consideration for those with less. They are hailed as saviors of the oppressed, and if they treat those same people with condescension or worse, why, it is all washed away by their support for the “enlightened” policies of the left, which offer succor to the oppressed.
As for the big organizations that overwhelmingly support the Democrats, look to the favors BG offers them.
The GOP is the party of the middle class and small business. Demcorats are the party of the the rich and the poor.
One of the great misconceptions in American politics is that Republicans are the party of the rich. That title belongs to the Democrats, who regularly garner the big bucks of America’s moneyed elite. David Elliott of the AP reports:
For as often as Democrats attack the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch for their heavy spending on politics, it’s actually the liberal-minded who shelled out the most cash in the just completed midterm elections.
At least, that is, among those groups that must disclose what they raise and spend.
Among the top 100 individual donors to political groups, more than half gave primarily to Democrats or their allies. Among groups that funneled more than $100,000 to allies, the top of the list tilted overwhelmingly toward Democrats — a group favoring the GOP doesn’t appear on the list until No. 14.
The two biggest super PACs of 2014? Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC — both backing Democrats.
In all, the top 10 individual donors to outside groups injected almost $128 million into this year’s elections. Democratic-leaning groups collected $91 million of it.
Among the 183 groups that wrote checks of $100,000 or more to another group, Democrats had a 3-to-1 cash advantage. The biggest player was the National Education Association, at $22 million. Not a single Republican-leaning group cracked the top 10 list of those transferring money to others.
Overall, for the campaign season that just ended, donors who gave more than $1 million sent roughly 60 cents of every dollar to liberal groups. Among the 10 biggest donors, Democrats outspent Republicans by an almost 3-to-1 margin
Sorry that posted twice.
sorry chuck but you are wrong again.
cutting and pasting does not make you an
expert.
Its the money…the big moneythat goes to
the unnamed donor pacs and organizations.
Koch borthers are prime examples of the
organizations where no one knows where the
money came from. Theyshell out hundres of
millions of dollars (Koch anc adelson) to these
groups and money is not accounted for.
that s the difference….the unknown cash
and money that goes into the not reported
areas….
Here is a list of Hate Crime Hoaxes. There are many, many that never make the news, but here are a couple hundred.
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
There is gold in dem dere hills.
Michelle Malkin has a very detailed list of hoaxes.
http://michellemalkin.com/?s=hate+crime+hoax
If the cursor on Yael’s laptop is moving, he is lying.
I’ve always assumed he was a Muslim since I’ve never seen him wear a tie.
About time we get another story from grandpa. Oh wait he will beat us all up. What a jerk meet me at go chicken go at high noon tomorrow gramps