“SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS …”
|| By FITSNEWS || Earlier this week we posted a humorous item about an error committed by the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). This, of course, is the annual lily white “exclusive” gathering of “conservative” political operatives in Washington, D.C.
CPAC’s error? Confusing Dr. Ben Carson – a renowned neurosurgeon who is contemplating a 2016 White House bid – with U.S. Senator Tim Scott.
Both Carson and Scott are black.
Eager to refute the embarrassing “white people think all black people look alike” headline, CPAC’s first response to the gaffe was to … get this … accuse reporter Ben Terris of The Washington Post of manipulating the image he tweeted.
Specifially, CPAC spokesman Ross Hemminger told the website Talking Points Memo “it’s a photoshop.”
“I’ve spoken with the web people who verified that it was definitely photoshopped,” Hemminger continued, vowing to provided the website with evidence of his claim.
CPAC also tweeted that it “did NOT mix up” the photos of Carson and Scott … and “conservative” website RedState.com echoed this claim.
“I don’t even slightly believe this isn’t a photoshop,” RedState.com editor Ben Howe tweeted.
Another CPAC tweet expressly claimed “we didn’t make the error.”
Really?
Hmmmm …
Oddly enough, the photo glitch – which only applied to the mobile version of CPAC’s website – mixed up all sorts of images (Including those of caucasian and Indian elected officials). In fact there’s a detailed follow-up story in The Washington Post which exonerates the paper’s reporter … and puts the ball squarely back in CPAC’s court.
So … will they admit their mistake? Especially now that it seems clear it was a glitch that had nothing to do with mistaking one black politician for another?
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Yeah-Right. This looks to good to be true. That means it IS too good to be true. The left trying to paint conservatives as racists. Get over it. Conservatism cut across all racial and ethnic lines., The vast majority of people live a conservative life style (not throwing money away), most people live a moral lifestyle. The left never misses an opportunity to paint good people the color that fits their agenda. Like everything else liberals do : one big lie.
You sure are talking alot but saying nothing
That’s because he never has anything much to say.
So do you support the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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The GOP needs someone half black and half white to bring the party together.
Someone like me.
Hope for change people-or is it hope & change? Oh well, you know what I mean.
You’re right. The GOP needs somebody capable of being popularly elected twice in a national election. Not looking good…like the last 30 years. ;-)
So the Right accuses the ‘lamestream media’ of mischief in order to hide their own incompetence?
Same Shit, Different Day
That is the way it is all the time in Democrat Circles.
Photoshop? I guess they think everybody is as dumb as their voting base?
“Same Shit, Different Day”
You really cannot make up some of the shit that comes out of these right-wingers’ mouths . . . or other holes.
That put a hamper in the “hey-look-we-have-minorities-so-we’re-not-racist” strategy.
All Black Democrats govern alike. By “fiat:. Plus show me one black Democrat politician that has governed successfully!
Many of these comments want to gloss over the total lies from CPAC and Redstate.
Typical behavior, sad to say. Admit the error, glitch, or whatever, apologize for the lies, and move on.
Another tempest in a tea party pot.
If FITS and the liberals did not have your cliches, about race, and everything else…you’d publish pages as lily white as your face, from your cul-d-sac, yuppie-laden, all-white-flight subdivisions……
You attack others not like you, with race…to shield your own nervous-racism, and your self-hatred for it…
Poor Tim. He looks like he actually LIKES to be used and abused. He is the supreme token!
And we all know WAPO never, ever lies or screws up a story.
Reminds me of Curtis Loftis. He doesn’t know the names of any of the blacks that work in his office. That’s why he calls them ‘brother’ or ‘sister’ instead of by their own names. He also pays them A LOT less than whites.