Even the NY Times has to back off

In today's NY Times, there is a correction that is the first step towards the Times admitting that there were no racial epithets shouted at the members of the Congressional Black Caucus outside the Capitol on the day that the healthcare bill passed. As you may recall, there was a large rally outside the Capitol with folks angry that their voices were being ignored and the bill was being approved. In a very unusual excursion, members of the Congressional Black Caucus decided to walk through the crowd rather than coming into the Capitol through the entrance from their office building. Even more unusual, the Congressment were followed by a retinue of camaramen who were recording their walk through the crowd. it was as if they were hoping to get some slur hurled at them which they could catch on tape and use in future fights to discredit the opposition. Of course, no slurs were yelled, but that did not stop these congressment from claiming that they had been the subject of repeated racist taunts. They were stuck, however, when the various video and audio recordings of the walk did not show even a single one of these supposed taunts. Now, four months later, these congressment will not even agree to answer questions about the event since they realize that they have been shown to be liars.

The NY times, however, never retracted its stories that the Congressmen had been verbally assaulted. It was all those racist Tea Partiers according to the Times. Well today, that story has started to crumble even in the Times. here is the correction in full:

"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."

It is not much of a correction, but my guess is that it killed the Times editors to have to publish it. There is no proof that the Tea Party directed epithets at the Congressmen. In English, that means that there is no proof that any epithets were directed at the Congressmen. That means that all we have is the word of the Congressment against the hours of video and audio tapes that were recorded.

The Times felt compelled to tell the reader that there are a "number" of "racially charged" statements linked to the Tea party, the Times has yet to identify even one of those supposed statements. Maybe someday, the truth will break out and appear in the pages of the Times.