Just Bad Luck I Guess

While sitting around the house watching Obama's poll numbers rise, and pondering this ugly incident where black members of congress were acosted with "cahnts" of the "N" word. I kept thinking of the last time that the actions of conservative protesters upset me so. That was back in the 2008 primaries when a group of young white men stood up at a Hillary Clinton rally and began shouting "IRON MY SHIRTS." You can watch it here if you don't recall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsocCWiLh3s

I remember thinking at the time, "Who are these idiots? I can't believe anybody with half a brain much less a conservative would do or say such a thing."

And I was right, they didn't. It didn't take much research for these young men to be connected directly to, you guessed it, Hillary's own campaign. If you watch the tape you can see for yourself how staged it is. Hillary then shows just how much gall she has by commenting on the staged production that "she never knows what to expect." Apparently that's even so when she plans it in the first place.

So now I go looking for the tape of the "N" word being thrown about at congressmen walking the capitol grounds. They HAD to have captured it right? Come on, black congressman, walking the capitol grounds, surrounded by angry protesters. There have to be video cameras EVERYWHERE. They got it right?

But darned if they didn't. I can't find a single snippet of a single utterence of that, or any other racial or homophobic slur (which they claimed was hurled at Barney Frank). And the news stories only report the congressmen repeating the slur. Apparently none of the reporters actually heard it themselves. Amazing. All those cameras and nobody got it on tape. Just bad luck I guess. Hmmmmmm.