Remember last August when Rep. David Scott’s office claimed some right wing "tea baggers" painted the sign at his Smyrna office with a swastika? They never did find the perpetrators, but many people still believe it was all a hoax, designed to divert attention away from the loud dissent at Scott’s town hall meetings and his embarrassing and unprofessional attack on a constituent of his, a concerned doctor with a legitimate question for the congressman.

And a week ago, more racially-charged accusations were made by some members of the Democrats’ Congressional Black Caucus, including Rep. John Lewis. They say they were called the n-word "15 times" while walking among Tea Party protesters the day before they voted to pass Obama’s unpopular healthcare takeover.

Despite numerous cameras filming the strange scene (including that of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. walking behind the group obviously hoping for some type of racial incident or You Tube moment), not one person has produced any legitimate evidence that the slurs occurred. Yet many news channels have reported it as fact and some of my favorite pundits even repeated the accusations. None of us want to believe anyone would manufacture such ugly stories for purely political reasons.

But now conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is offering to donate $10,000 of his own money to the United Negro College Fund if anyone can offer proof of such racial ugliness.

"Is it really possible," he asks, "that in 2010, in a crowd of 30 or 40 thousand people — at the center of a once-in-a-lifetime media circus — not one person’s flip phone, Blackberry, video recorder or a network feed caught a single incident?"

Mr. Breitbart makes an excellent point.

Do they expect us to believe that Jesse Jackson Jr. would sit on such a tape if racial taunts had really happened?

Unfortunately for America, it’s looking more and more like this was a trumped up claim made by shameless partisans and repeated by a complicit press, specifically for the purpose of smearing the Tea Party Movement.

What do you believe really happened that day, and does it really matter?