Andrew Breitbart has offered $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone can provide evidence that Tea Party protesters screamed the N-word at a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they walked from the Cannon office building to the Capitol on the day they voted to pass health care reform.

No one has been able or willing to claim this award, and every video that has surfaced of the congressmen’s walk has had no sign that the N-word was ever yelled.

The claim has been a slander against the Tea Party that the media has been too willing to perpetuate.

The guys over at Powerline have been following the story and asked the investigative editor at McClatchy’s Washington Bureau if anyone there was interested in determining if their initial story, “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen.”

This is the response they received:

There is no reason to. The criticism is based on a video tape that depicted a different time and not the incident. And we feel confident that the congress members would not concoct their stories.

But thanks for reading mcclatchy.

J
James Asher
Investigative Editor
McClatchy Washington Bureau
[contact information omitted]

One wonders what part of “if your mother says she loves you, check it out,” Mr. Asher failed to comprehend in j-school. Frankly, any “journalist” with the mendacity to write: “And we feel confident that the congress members would not concoct their stories” should be fired on the spot.

There’s plenty of good journalists out there who’ve lost their jobs in recent years yet Mr. Asher has managed to keep his and rise to the position of investigative editor in Washington, D.C.? One wonders about the quality of the photos he has of his McClatchy superiors in compromising positions with various barnyard animals.

Journalism. Wound. Self-inflicted.