https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/02/maybe-stephanie-mccrummen-just-likes-using-the-n-word/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 15:32:03 -0400<![CDATA[This is perhaps the most bizarre attack on Rick Perry to come so far.Hugh Hewtitt has a very good take down of it. It shows the extent to which the Democrats will go to attack Republicans. Stephanie McCrummen, a Washington Post based reporter formerly stationed in Nairobi has a history of fanning racial flames out of context.In a move that was genuinely supported by people of all races in North Carolina, McCrummen earlier this year tried to paint tea party backed school board members as racist for restructuring a school busing program in the Raleigh area. Again, there were a large number of black residents supportive of the measure, but McCrummen&#8217;s reporting failed to get into that.Now, she&#8217;s out with a story about Rick Perry and his dad using a hunting camp with a big rock on it that has the word &#8220;Ni**erhead&#8221; on it. Rick Perry&#8217;s father painted over the rock. At some point, they turned the rock over so it couldn&#8217;t be seen.The Washington Post story makes clear that Perry didn&#8217;t like it, that his dad painted over it, that they weren&#8217;t responsible for it, and that all seven people who who saw it remember it in the 80&#8217;s, might have seen it in 2008 (but really are not sure), and did not associate it with either Rick Perry or his father.As Hugh Hewitt notes:]]>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:35:30 -0400<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2011/10/02/maybe-stephanie-mccrummen-just-likes-using-the-n-word-n40630