Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D, MO) disavows any role in spitting smear.


[UPDATE] Weasel Zipper’s update (via Instapundit) is both accurate and succinct.

(via @allahpundit) You know: if I was a mindless drone who had been duckspeaking for the last week on the DNC-spawned narrative of racial slurs/spitting… well, I probably wouldn’t have the mother-wit to be offended at how clumsily this walkback by Cleaver was presented*:

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So now Rep. Cleaver doesn’t people talking about it; and now he wants to act like he was never involved in this issue in the first place. Can’t say I’m surprised. Can’t say that I’m surprised that he doesn’t want to lay any blame at the feet of the DNC’s would-be race-hate demagogues, either…

Moe Lane

*On the other hand, the slightly less mindless drones who encouraged said duckspeaking in others probably should feel a little pique at the way that they wasted a week on something that will be disavowed by the Democratic party anyway. At least, one hopes that they will.

PS: I cannot say this too often: GET A CAMERA. Video recording equipment in the hands of the populace kept this story contained. GET A CAMERA. A video record will be an invaluable offensive and defensive tool for your activism. GET A CAMERA. This will be true for the rest of your activist career. GET A CAMERA.


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It looks like Clever couldn't really tell the truth about it

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:45AM EST (link)

and after the video went viral, he couldn’t really use the “it was intentional” because that’s not true. His walkback is a lie since he was making this a big deal in the media.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

A Democrat? Not tell the truth? When did this start? -nt-

eburke (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:47AM EST (link)

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

A long time ago. Telling lies and Tall Tales is part of the responsibility of being a Democrat

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:51AM EST (link)

You can’t be one without lying and making Tall Tales.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 

The lie has traveled around the world

Beaglescout (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 1:16PM EST (link)

Before the truth got a chance to put its pants on. I don’t know who said it first, but the only way we will ever defeat these useful idiots and their Stalinist puppet-masters is to go on the offense. No, I don’t mean guns. I mean the stuff that Achance talks about.

In the meantime we need to hound the media liars who pass these lies on and make them and their employers suffer.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

–Alexander Hamilton

Yes, the "hate crime" was mentioned by Juan Williams

renny (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 8:31AM EST (link)

in a WSJ op-ed without any qualification.

I wrote a letter to the editor that such remarks should not be printed without challenge, since no “n-word” or “spitting” has been verified in any number of photos and videos.

But the entire globe now thinks the incident happened and that the US is STILL the old racist country they like to think we are.

 

The truth we tell about the left

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 9:31AM EST (link)

hurts them far more than the lies they tell about us hurt us. So, tell the truth. Jesus said the truth shall set you free That is a two-way street. It is just as important to tell the truth as it is to hear it. If you tell a lie, you are bound by that lie. If the truth later comes to light, it destroys the lie, and since you are bound to it, you can be destroyed as well. If you always tell the truth, you are free, because you do not have to remember which lies you told to who when. The problem for the left is that the only way they know to try to overcome the truth about them telling a lie is to tell another one Eventually their house of lies will come tumbling down about their heads, So, lets keep telling the truth about their lies. Have you noticed that the thing that gets Obama the maddest is telling the truth about him, his associates, or his policies. Let’s make him real mad, keep pouring on the truth!

 
 
 

A Flip video camera should be in every activist's pocket

Achance (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:54AM EST (link)

any time they’re out in public once they’ve become identifiable as an activist and for everyone who attends any sort of conservative gathering.

From the beginning of Comrade Obama’s coup there have been disrupters and provacateurs from the left at Republican/conservative campaign events and gatherings. Now it is apparent that the government is setting the stage for government agents to infiltrate Tea Party and other gatherings. The recent “militia” arrests and all the frenzy about the violent right is NOT coincidental. From now on, the guy or gal next to you egging you on to do something or another is as likely as not to be from the FBI or one of the other state security organizations. In the Blue states local and state law enforcement will be doing the same thing. The whole idea of an Alinsky-style campaign is to get people like us to do something stupid and if we won’t cooperate, the regime and its running dogs in the media will just make it up.

The Flip is small, easy to use, easy to hide, and can upload straight to a computer and to You Tube, etc.

In Vino Veritas

Well sometimes it even easier than that

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:07PM EST (link)

when you digital camera has the ability to upload video that it toke to YouTube. That’s one good reason to have a Casio Digital Camera although the flip is more than likely better in Video quality.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

I flip-flop between the Flip and my Canon...

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:50PM EST (link)

…the first one has better capacity and a bit better audio pickup; the latter is pretty light. I used both at CPAC for interviews; they both worked out pretty well.

Anyhoo, this entire event is a perfect example of why you need a camera. Imagine how it would have played if it was he said/he said; instead it was he said/he said – and here’s the goram footage, Sparky.

I like the ease of it

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:54PM EST (link)

Yes, the Casio Exilim Z80 is light and can we put in a shirt pocket, but I think the FLip has much better quality.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

I picked up the Flip HD at Sam's last week

phred (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 9:34AM EST (link)

specifically for the Huntsville, AL and D.C. TEA events. It has amazing video and audio quality and I will be armed with this. One never knows when a newsy item may pop up right in front of you.

Libs seem to have never been to these events except as agitators. My primary videographic mission is to document the TEA’s wholesome atmosphere, non-violence, and patriotism for blog and Facebook exposure to counteract the Democrat talking points of TEA “intolerance and hatred.”

Liberalism: Equally shared misery.

 
 
 

or even your iPhone or iPod Nano would work

spim Friday, April 2nd at 12:59PM EST (link)

for those of us that like having less gadgets in our pockets

but something like the Flip-type camcorders are great for HD and higher-quality

newer smartphones are even doing HD level video now. nt

Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 2:08PM EST (link)

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 
 
 

Citizen journalism will be crucial to turn the tide to expose these liars.

Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:26PM EST (link)

This should be a message repeated every single time by every conservative and republican. Video everything everywhere at gatherings. These idiots should be hounded w/ video everywhere they go.

UStream, Qik, LiveCast, PocketCaster, and many other new services now have live streaming video for your smart phone cameras that auto capture and auto publish your video to the net, facebook, youtube, Twitter etc… for instant broad dissemination and live amateur reporting from scheduled or impromptu events.

The MSM are useful idiot comrades to the left, citizen journalism must help take the country back.

We need to require all CONgress rats to wear a webcam as long as they are on the taxpayer payroll.

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

absolutely agree...

uselogic Friday, April 2nd at 3:43PM EST (link)

I called Suzanne Kozmas’ office to find out if they reported the “death threats” to the FBI or local law enforcement…. since obviously the local Orlando Slantinel did not. Can’t answer. (The Slantinel has gone totally in the useless tank in the last 5 years – used to be sort of middle left.) Now Kosmas’ spokeperson says the the messages “sounded threatening”. Oops!

 
 

Does the lying ever stop...?

NeoKong (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:43PM EST (link)

The networks and the internet were going crazy over this for days and he said nothing.
He was fine with the lie. It is absurd for him to claim now that he never pushed it or went along with it since the whole country was talking about it.
Are we to believe that no one even asked him about it…?
It is only after his lie was clearly and most conspicuously debunked does he now say “What spitting ? I never said that”

Will CBS,ABC,NBC and all the other corrupt propaganda outfits now issue a retraction….?
Stay will still claim it has happened even after the “victim” has denied it.
They prefer the other story.

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To be a Democrat congressman you have to lie

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:51PM EST (link)

it’s part of the job description. If Rep. Cleaver started to tell the truth, he couldn’t be a democrat. Now, if this walkback by Rep. Cleaver comes out viral and the news media that covered for him see it, I wonder what walkbacks that they have afterwords.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Just another "fake but true" story. nt

Achance (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:53PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

Well Video speaks louder than the lying Media. -nt-

Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 12:55PM EST (link)

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

So does Microsoft Word...

rbdwiggins (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 3:37PM EST (link)

But that didn’t stop the combined media effort to cover-up RatherGate.™

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan

 
 
 
 

Profiles in moral courage

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 1:06PM EST (link)

I bet he doesn’t tip at restaurants either.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

But he has a reverend's license, so he's more holy than the rest of us plebians. nt

Xasteius (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 2:20PM EST (link)

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

Heck, he's a Democrat. That automatically

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 9:52AM EST (link)

makes his holier than the rest of us. At least, that is what their religion (liberalism) teaches them. Our religion teaches us to treat others the way you wish to be treated. Theirs teaches that the end justifies the means. Their end is to control the rest of us.
The problem is their followers think that means they will be in charge too. They don’t realize they are just sheep for the slaughter on the alter of more government. The problem for us is that the sheep of the left will never understand this truth, because the are “true believers”. They will just drink the kool-aid when they are told to. We have to keep telling the truth about everything and pray we can convince a majority to do what is right.

 
 
 

Moe is absolutely right about GETTING A VID CAMERA

ColdWarrior (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 1:23PM EST (link)

I use three:

FlipVideo.

Casio EXLIM Camera

Worst case backup: My Blackberry.

Any time I go a protest, a rally, a GOP meeting, etc., I’ve got them with me. While recruiting PCs back on April 15, 2009, at the AZ state capitol, an Arizona Repugnant (Republic) reporter interviewed me at length but foolishly didn’t ask for my name at the start (I had my PC recruitment sign and was handing out my flyer). At the end, when he asked for my name, I politely refused. A guy standing next to me, who had been listening, volunteered to give his name and be interviewed. So, I whipped out my FlipVideo and started unobtrusively filming, but making sure the reporter SAW I was filming. I checked the Repugnant the next day, and that guy’s interview made it into the story — accurately.

Was it accurate because I filmed the guy? I’ll never know, but I know this reporter knew that I might have taken the entire video to the net to compare it to what he wrote.

Get a digital video camera.

Thank you.

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Excellent suggestion. Get a camera, take photos, record their voices. Make them crazy with paranoia

archer52 Friday, April 2nd at 5:08PM EST (link)

Did you see the fat congressman on TV saying he didn’t care what the constitution said? It is moments like that which make all the time and energy worth it.

Remember, they are public figures. They go out in public to eat, drink, party, pick up groceries or try to meet with donors, etc, you can photograph them, ask them questions, ask who they are with, get their faces, their cars etc. Post them, share them, let Redstate know.

As long as you are respectful and peaceful. It will be like the endless dripping of water on their foreheads. I’m telling you they will go blind with anxiety! They’ll see things that aren’t there, refuse to have conversations because they fear being recorded. It will certainly cut down on their ability to earn donor money if the donor fears being exposed.

But remember, as much as this should work, it may not work as well as you think. Most of these politicians know they are done for in November and may act like that Japanese soldier stuck on a Pacific island. They will do as much damage as they can before they are removed. It is the ones that aren’t used to the attention and are secure in their districts that will flip. Being held accountable? It is a foreign concept to them.

Again there may be a time when you have to step it up a notch to civil disobedience. If so, take a lesson from the Cubans in Tampa who have worked out one heck of a good system for all sides, especially for the poor policemen who are summoned to “break it up.”

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/04/02/how-to-properly-implement-civil-disobedience-and-make-everybody-happy-cuban-style/

Just an idea.

Since we love liberty, think of it as

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 10:03AM EST (link)

helping them to be free. By video recording everything in their presence, we are freeing them to tell the truth. They will no longer be chained down by the leftist play-book. Maybe it will be so liberating that they will learn to tell the truth on their own. Ha ha ha!
Anyway, if it comes to that, don’t forget to record the civil disobedience, even recording the cops who come to bust heads for us daring to want the truth and freedom. Don’t give up your camera to them until you have sent off the signal to some off-site recording or re-broadcasting place. Once the truth has been broadcast, they will have no further need of your property, except to punish you by taking it away. But, hopefully the courts will make them give it back. If not, at today’s prices, most video cameras are easily replaced. Either way, once the true video hits the internet, they cannot cover it up any more.

 
 

Spit and DNA

wannabeanncoulter Saturday, April 3rd at 12:58AM EST (link)

I realize that unless charges are pressed (and they’re not going to be), this will never happen BUT: If you watch the video, you see a Capitol police officer or other security officer walking behind Cleaver. (I’m assuming this is the officer who detained the so-called spitter.) The cops have the man’s identity. If this incident went to trial, we’d have a DNA sample from the so-called spitter and and forensic analysis of Cleaver’s suit for the so-called spitter’s saliva/DNA. We could resolve this issue one way or the other. But life never works out like an episode of Forensic Files.

I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter

 

When are you going to figure this out?

Plumb_Bob (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 3:12PM EST (link)

“Get a camera” is fine, but consider:

If Republicans need to carry a camera every time they act, to prevent outright lies from being spread,

and if Democrats don’t likewise need to -

why would any sane Republican consent to remain involved in this system?

There is no sense — NONE — to Republicans consenting to exist in the same nation with these felonious, vicious liars. Would you play touch football with guys you knew were going to try to break your bones every chance they got? Would you play poker with somebody you knew was going to try to cheat?

We should start a new, separate nation. Time for partition, friends. Winning the next election will not help solve this.

(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political blog, “Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture,” at http://www.plumbbobblog.com. Thanks.)

 

Cleaver the Liar

lauritz1 Monday, April 5th at 6:16PM EST (link)

I had the displeasure of residing in Kansas City, Missouri when Cleaver was mayor for far too long. He was an idiot and a liar then and we see nothing has changed with the passing of time. His original calling or scam in life before he slithered into politics was religion. That’s right; cut right out of the Jesse Jackson-Al Sharpton “Con-Artist” mode Cleaver was a minister before he ran as mayor in Kansas City. Why on earth anyone imagines that many if any, ministers would necessarily be good choices to be in elected public office is a profound mystery to me. I’m sure like all dillusional “CINAs” (Christians in Name Only) and pseudo-Christians, he can likely ramble ad nauseum as to the merits and legitimacy of entering politics and his many glorious accomplishments. And of course he could never be accused of being yet another mentally disoriented, “Liberal.” No, no, no; he is doings God’s work. The question is; what or which god?

So, it should be no surprise that he lied about being spit on and called an insulting name. As it goes with liberals; if you don’t have a persecution from which to fight back, hey just make one up to make yourself feel better about being a liar and a jackass!