Buried at the bottom of a story published the other day, the New York Times printed a curious little 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.

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Let’s go over that again:

  • The Times is admitting that there is absolutely no evidence that any epithets were shouted at the Congressman by any member of the Tea Party.
  • This correction demonstrates we have finally proven our point to the nation’s most eminent and influential liberal media organ: that Rep. Andre Carson lied when he told the AP that members of the Tea Party hurled the “N-word” 15 times during the March 20 health-care rally that took place at the U.S. Capitol.

That’s great, as far as it goes – a thorough vindication of the Tea Party — but it doesn’t go far enough.

  • It’s not enough for the Times to make a correction having let that calumny sit out there unrebuked for weeks and months and then, way after the fact, issue a correction.
  • It’s not enough because the Times continues to imply that something racially charged might happened on the steps of the Capitol, when we have shown conclusively, via multiple videos of the moment in question, that nothing of the sort occurred.


It’s not enough because the Times correction is just the beginning.  The same correction needs to come from every other major media outlet that blithely repeated this defamation, including the AP, the Washington Post, The Hill, and MSNBC – not just in their news columns, but in their editorials, op-ed and opinion columns and shows as well.  Until then, there will be no closure, because the Tea Party will not stop in its pursuit of vindication until the same media effort that went into propagating this lie goes into dispelling it and giving the millions of Americans – 23% of whom are minorities, according to Gallup — their good name back.

Which media outlet is going to have the courage to air the exculpatory videos?

Which will be the first to admit that Congressman Carson lied about the events of that day? That he slandered the Tea Party and had his charges believed by a gullible press corps that did no reporting and pursued no corroboration from among the 400 people and the Capitol Police officers whom Carson claimed had witnessed the event?

Why? Because it didn’t “fit the narrative.’

We are not going to stop until, in our pursuit of justice for the falsely maligned Tea Party, the MSM airs the exculpatory evidence.  And to air them is just to expose a massive government-crafted fraud, it shows the moral emptiness at the core of the media.  Those videos are the elephant in the room.

What’s at the center of this national racial mess is a cynical political ploy created by President Obama and elected Democrats, and executed with the help of their media allies and activist groups like the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, to gin up the base for 2010 and take the spotlight off a faltering economy, a bungled Gulf oil spill cleanup, a soaring national debt, and a deeply unpopular health care bill.

The long list of victims of the Obama Administration’s race-war-by-proxy strategy continues to grow.  Anyone who disagrees with Democrat politics is branded a racist.  Anyone who disagrees with the health-care bill is a racist.  The exposure of the manufactured N-word lie illuminates better than anything what Mary Frances Berry meant when she said:

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

It has to stop.

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And so I refuse to shut up over a scandal meant to silence and destroy an organization whose members consider it to be a new awakening of our most sacred founding principles. The opportunity for closure is now, and if the rest of the media is willing to follow their lead (as they have always been wont to do), the New York Times has created that opportunity.

All we ask is for the MSM to correct the record as publicly as they distorted it; to focus for one day on the convincing and overwhelming video evidence that shows beyond a reasonable doubt that the events that Congressman Carson described did not happen and that hundreds of innocent Americans have been unjustly smeared. The outlet that has the courage to air these videos compared to Rep. Carson’s allegations could be the Moses of the media to lead them to the Promised Land, and to begin to start rebuilding the MSM’s tattered reputation.

Until this injustice and cover up is remedied, until the many thousands of Americans who are a part of the Tea Party movement have their good names cleared, there can be no closure.