Representative Andre Carson, D.-Ind., told a reporter some persons in a crowd at the Cannon Office Building chanted the n-word 15 times as Carson and Representative John Lewis (D.-Ga.)(both happen to be black) left the building this past Saturday. It was also reported that a protester spit on Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D.-Mo.), who also happens to be black, and that protesters yelled anti-gay slurs at Representative Barney Frank (D.-Mass), who happens to be gay.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael (What Up?) Steele and other Republicans condemned these incidents. (But check out the take by Representative David Nunes (R.-Ca.).) As Colbert King notes, Steele separated himself and the Republican Party from "idiots out there saying stupid things." King: "The people who shouted the slurs weren't 'idiots . . . saying stupid things.' They were racists and homophobic bigots uttering hateful and inflammatory language. They should have been called out as such."
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