It’s Breitbart: At SRLC, Blogger Accuses Media Of Fabricating Racist Health Care Attacks (VIDEO)

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Right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart spoke at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans today, using his time at the podium to attack Democrats and the mainstream media. For starters, he accused both of fabricating racist slurs aimed at Democratic congressmen during the health care debate.

“We are watching the emerging strategy of the post-health care bill of the Democratic Party, and it started the day before the bill was signed, when the most controversial members of the Democratic caucus walked among the Tea Party participants with cameras in the air, with glares in their eyes,” Breitbart said, naming Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Barney Frank (D-MA).

“They were all fishing for hate, and they got none,” he went on, saying they then went to the “mainstream media.” “They said that the N-word was said 15 times.”

Breitbart shook his head in disbelief, saying there’s no proof such things happened.

He went on to accuse the other side of being racist. He said supporters of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threw eggs and used made racist remarks at a Tea Party rally in Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev.. He said the only racism caught on tape during the health care debate was from the left, when, he claimed, two SEIU members said the N-word to a black man selling Gadsden flags outside a town hall in St. Louis.

“The left … accuses you of what they’re doing to you,” he said.

“They declared war on us. We did not declare war on them,” he said to applause.

Breitbart also wondered aloud why ” the left is allowed to throw around the dangerous accusation of racism.”

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