Rep Robin Hayes (R-N.C): Up is down, black is white, war is peace.

[BzaDem]

"Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) has conceded that he did tell a North Carolina crowd that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," even though he initially denied making such a statement.

Now he says he didn’t mean it that way and he was just trying to rev up a campaign rally.

“I genuinely did not recall making the statement and, after reading it, there is no doubt that it came out completely the wrong way. I actually was trying to work to keep the crowd as respectful as possible, so this is definitely not what I intended,” Hayes said in a statement for Politico.

The comments were first reported by the New York Observer. When Politico linked to the Observer story on Monday evening, Hayes' spokeswoman Amanda Little called and denied the report. Observer reporter Jason Horowitz told Politico he stood firmly behind the story. Politico left the quote in The Crypt blog but added the Hayes denial.

On Tuesday, two more reporters and two other witnesses confirmed the quote, but Little continued to deny it, calling the story "irresponsible journalism." Little said she had just as many sources who would deny it, including Hayes' staff and Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who spoke before Hayes.

But then Politico obtained an audio file of the Hayes quote from radio reporter Lisa Miller of WFAE. Little backed down, saying that Hayes must have misspoken. "


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14797.html


If McCain is elected (and he won't be), I expect this to be their entire media strategy. Just deny reality. As long as someone is disputing reality the media reports that reality is in dispute. There won't always be an audio tape to save the truth.

[islandmkl]

1. "...there is no doubt that it came out completely the wrong way."

yeah, a-hole...you forgot the part where all us lib'ruls should be sent to some far-off country since we don't love america...

where we can barely manage to exist until your god gets around to vanquishing our heathen selves...

[baldguy]

2. First, the mob yells out outrageous things that the leaders don't hear

Then the leaders say outrageous things that the leaders don't hear.

[yellowcanine]

3. "I actually was trying to work to keep the crowd as respectful as possible."

Please someone keep this man away from young children.

[stolivodka]

4. We are the REAL America!

Not social parasites like you and the bankers who use their influence with those like you to bet with the house's chips. The day of reckoning is at hand, and when we're done, Conservatism will join Nazism and Communism in the dustbin of history.