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| Melanie Phillips: The mask slips |
| 2009-07-29 |
In which Ms. Phillips dwelleth on the delta between the presentation and the reality of the "post-racial" president... Now, thanks to the histrionics of Henry Louis Gates, we can see how Obama's dysfunctional attitude to race plays out in real time. Gates's arrest was an honest and understandable mistake by the Cambridge police who were investigating what appeared to be a break-in. It clearly had nothing to do with Gates being black -- not least because other officers backing up the arresting officer were non-white. Gates's protests were preposterous, and vividly demonstrated the pathological resentment and injustice -- not to mention the strutting arrogance and narcissism -- of anti-racist 'victim culture'. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Gates lit off pretty quickly, it appears. I'm thinking he had a plan for such an occasion. He's standing there yelling while everyone stares in disbelief. Now he gets a PBS documentary and a book. Crowley gets to stop teaching his class. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-07-29 23:22 |
| #10 IMHO the only bigotry involved in the whole matter was done by Gates & Obama. Gates is a moron; it is fitting that he is friends w/wonder boy. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-07-29 17:02 |
| #9 People like Gates, Sharpton, Jackson, Barry are part of the problem and they themselves will not go away cuz its how they make their big time. They are selling culture. Racist culture. The infallable one just showed that it doesn't matter what the facts are, if you're in good with him you get primetime consideration. And they never give retractions - Gates may have been declared not completely innocent but the police officers were still considered guilty, only for some primetime blurbs, its not just disgusting but self serving at others' expense. After hearing the responding officers I would serve with them anytime - its called integrety. Something the msm doesn't sell and lacks itself. Attempting to sell this case as secret society crap - Up yours media. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-07-29 10:38 |
| #8 Gates's arrest was an honest and understandable mistake by the Cambridge police The only "mistakes" were those made by a blow- hard professor who was clearing attempting to light the fuse of a policeman! Oh yes of course, the other "mistakes" sits in the White House making uninformed statements about common police calls, but only those involving black participants of course. Nothing yet from the White House on the Murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom the white couple from Knoxville, Tennessee. According to a Tennessee grand jury, they were both raped and murdered after being kidnapped early on the morning of January 7, 2007. Their vehicle had been carjacked. Five black suspects have been arrested and charged in the case. The grand jury indicted four of the suspects on counts of murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape and theft, while one final suspect has already been convicted of federal charges as accessory after the fact to carjacking. Wik story HERE |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-29 07:02 |
| #7 Skippy - Don't shout at policemen. OJ - Don't take guns to settle a business dispute. Michael - Drug addicts quit or they die. Life is simple. Stupid is hard. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2009-07-29 05:30 |
| #6 Obama is a narcissistic idiot, the sooner he leaves office, the better. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-29 03:48 |
| #5 Ummm, it seems to cover the situation of "Mouth out of control" pretty well. While I have no sympathy at all for Gates I do believe that "mouth out of control" might not rise to the level of offense for which a free citizen should be arrested and forcibly detained. The power of arrest and detention is, after all, quite extraordinary. |
| Posted by: AzCat 2009-07-29 03:07 |
| #4 Alarming? Disturbing? Come on, Melanie. That she even feels obliged to couch her comments in such language is one more measure of the absurd, Orwellian situation in which we currently exist. This guy would be an embarrassment as a city council member, much less a loftier post. The crude, transparent racism and hucksterism on display is a national humiliation - that this is utterly incomprehensible to your average "educated," "high information" American is merely deeper condemnation of most of the country. A shameful and disgusting state of affairs in the US. And there's not the slightest chance that those responsible for it or tolerant of it will ever again be taken seriously, respected, or (if avoidable) helped by the more sensible and intelligent folk (unless the latter are driven by the momentum of decency and patriotism). |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-07-29 02:41 |
| #3 Ummm, it seems to cover the situation of "Mouth out of control" pretty well. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-07-29 00:32 |
| #2 Perhaps one of the problems here is the Massachusetts law which (per this website) states, "A "disorderly person" is defined as one who: * with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or * recklessly creates a risk thereof * engages in fighting or threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior, or * creates a hazard or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose." The 'tumultuous behavior' standard seems a pretty low threshold for conviction (and the word tumultuous was in the police report). It seems to me that someone should actually be creating a public menace or endangering public safety or something more serious. |
| Posted by: Lord garth 2009-07-29 00:30 |
| #1 One of two things will happen 1. we never hear from Ms Phillips again. 2. Her news outlet will be chastised for "Telling Lies." |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-07-29 00:17 |