Retraction By NY Times of Tea Party Racial Slurs

Andrew, it will stay quiet that's the way it works. I will also bet that this thread will be a quiet one also.

Nice try spinning this but you are using the wrong term, it was a correction not a retraction. They are stating there is no proof the slurs came from a Tea Party member (there were many in attendance) not that the incident did not take place. Here is the quote from the NYT's article which I curiously could not find in your links.

Correction: July 25, 2010, Sunday
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.

How is this spin? Does anyone here think this story wasn't specifically directed at Tea Party folk? The fact is they reported unsubstantiated claims that Tea Party members shouted racial slurs.

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Nice try spinning this but you are using the wrong term, it was a correction not a retraction. They are stating there is no proof the slurs came from a Tea Party member (there were many in attendance) not that the incident did not take place. Here is the quote from the NYT's article which I curiously could not find in your links.

I don't know how you missed it.... Right there in the first paragraph of the link.

here's how it works.

Here's my take on the whole thing...

It was a fabrication to try and make the Tea Party members look bad. It was obvious from the video that some spittle flew while chanting and yelling, but that's different from dillerberatley spitting on somebody. One claim down.

In this day of technology, there were probably more cameras and digital recorders there than could be counted. The claims that Rep. Andre Carson made cannot be backed up...period. Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for recorded proof that the slurs were uttered. Nobody ever came forward. I'm sorry, but even somebody on the Tea Party side would have taken that money if there was proof. Additionally, nobody even tried to fake a recording.

IMHO...it didn't go down like they claimed it did. There's more proof that it didn't than proof that it did...

Nice try spinning this but you are using the wrong term, it was a correction not a retraction. They are stating there is no proof the slurs came from a Tea Party member (there were many in attendance) not that the incident did not take place. Here is the quote from the NYT's article which I curiously could not find in your links.

"Slurs" Interesting word choice Poppy.

I love the tea party. It's the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic party.

I love the tea party. It's the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic party.

that's like saying Alzheimers is the best thing that ever happened to cancer. :roll:

that's like saying Alzheimers is the best thing that ever happened to cancer. :roll:

If you want to equate the Tea Party with dementia you'll get no objections from me.

here's how it works.

That was great!

I love the tea party. It's the best thing that ever happened to the Democratic party.

Yes it is. It's going to take lots of dems out of office.

I guess now I'll have to start embracing the tea party. Sign me up!

I don't know how you missed it.... Right there in the first paragraph of the link.

I guess I missed it because the only link I see in the first paragraph is to Andrew Breitbart.

Here's my take on the whole thing...

It was a fabrication to try and make the Tea Party members look bad. It was obvious from the video that some spittle flew while chanting and yelling, but that's different from dillerberatley spitting on somebody. One claim down.

In this day of technology, there were probably more cameras and digital recorders there than could be counted. The claims that Rep. Andre Carson made cannot be backed up...period. Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for recorded proof that the slurs were uttered. Nobody ever came forward. I'm sorry, but even somebody on the Tea Party side would have taken that money if there was proof. Additionally, nobody even tried to fake a recording.

IMHO...it didn't go down like they claimed it did. There's more proof that it didn't than proof that it did...

Exactly how many of those videos were viewed to reach the conclusion it never happened?

Poppy you're too politically jaded to understand right from wrong here? I think not.

Poppy you're too politically jaded to understand right from wrong here? I think not.

Nobody can hate like a liberal............especially a young liberal........... their brain is filled with other peoples' fodder.

Nobody can hate like a liberal............especially a young liberal........... their brain is filled with other peoples' fodder.

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If you believe that video you need serious therapy. Didn't Air America steal money from the boyscouts to fund their program?

What does this have to do with the fact that the NY Times had to admit inaccurate reporting?

How is this spin? Does anyone here think this story wasn't specifically directed at Tea Party folk? The fact is they reported unsubstantiated claims that Tea Party members shouted racial slurs.

And they did the proper thing and corrected it in print.

"Slurs" Interesting word choice Poppy.

Uh, you might want to look at the title of this thread by AndrewG.