Video: Loesch, O'Reilly on Tea Parties, racism, and credibility

Via Instapundit, PJTV’s Dana Loesch appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night to discuss the allegations of racism at rallies opposing ObamaCare — which is not the same as the Tea Party rallies, although the crowds certainly overlap. O’Reilly makes an obvious point that the national media seems to be missing, which is that all crowds have a few nuts at the fringe, and that painting an entire opposition as racist on the basis of one or two shouts from the crowd at these rallies is absurd. Loesch questions whether it occurred at all, and the documentary evidence seems to suggest that it didn’t. O’Reilly gives the lawmakers the benefit of the doubt on their accusations, but Loesch points out that the same lawmakers have busied themselves in subverting the Constitution over the last few months, and their credibility should be judged with that in mind:

I think they’re both right on the point about credibility. The people making this accusation have every reason to cast their opponents as troglodyte racists; that way, they don’t have to answer the substance of the criticism. But they could be right and a nutcase or two yelled disgusting insults at the rally. Without any evidence of it, though, one has to take them at their word, whatever that’s worth.

There is another possibility. At the Kill the Bill rally I attended in St. Paul, we had a couple of provocateurs dressed in what appeared to be Palin t-shirts at first blush, but on closer inspection turned out to be sexual references to the former VP nominee. They started yelling “you’re so hot!” at the top of their lungs when Michele Bachmann spoke until the people around them maneuvered them to the back of the crowd. It’s not outside of the realm of possibility that these lawmakers did hear racial slurs shouted — and it could have come from people intending to discredit the thousands that have taken to the streets to protest this arrogant takeover by Congress. In either case, we’re dealing with fringe nuts who don’t deserve the attention they’re receiving.