Hoyer Calls Bachmann N-Word 'Denier'

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday chided Rep. Michele Bachmann (D-Minn.) for denying that a protester shouted a racial epithet at Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) during last month’s healthcare battle.

Lewis said protesters used the n-word as he walked to the Capitol during the weekend healthcare debate that led to the bill’s final passage. Conservative commentators and Bachmann have questioned whether the racial insults actually took place.

“I think it undermines the credibility of somebody who’s a denier. People denied a lot of things happened, bad things that happened,” Hoyer said Tuesday at a press conference.