So Rep. Shuler Did Not Hear the Phantom ‘N-Word’ After All
Posted by admin on April 16th, 2010
On Tuesday, AP reporter Jesse Washington ran a story on the Phantom ‘N-Word,’ accusing Andrew Breitbart and this site of misleading viewers by running a video of the March 20 protest at Capitol Hill that did not show anyone screaming a racial epithet at the Congressional Black Caucus, as had been widely reported. And, Washington included a new eye-witness to the supposed hate-speech, Rep. Heath Shuler (D, N.C.):
A fourth Democrat, Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white, backed up his colleagues, telling the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News that he heard the slurs.
Yesterday, James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal actually did some reporting and called Rep. Shuler’s office. He got a different story:
Read the rest here.
