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2009-07-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Steyn: Obama knows 'stupidly' when he doesn't see it

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Posted by tipper 2009-07-25 10:13|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Steyn is an absolute jem. The way he deconstructs a situation and points out the absurdities w/wry humor and elegant phrasing is outstanding. I always come away better for having read his pieces.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-25 12:53|| 2009-07-25 12:53|| Front Page Top

#2 As professor Gates jeered at the officers, "You don't know who you're messin' with." Did Sgt. Crowley have to arrest him? Probably not. Did he allow himself to be provoked by an obnoxious buffoon? Maybe. I dunno. I wasn't there. Neither was the president of the United States, or the governor of Massachusetts or the mayor of Cambridge. All of whom have declared themselves firmly on the side of the Ivy League bigshot. And all of whom, as it happens, are African American. A black president, a black governor and a black mayor all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team, headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid racial profiling. The boundless elasticity of such endemic racism suggests that the "post-racial America" will be living with blowhard grievance-mongers like professor Gates unto the end of time.

I was told that it would quit when we elected "Teh One". They lied. Again.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 13:19|| 2009-07-25 13:19|| Front Page Top

#3 It sounds to me like Gates and all his powerful friends are angry that the lowly cop got 'uppity.'

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-25 14:34|| 2009-07-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 They want to pretend they're striking back against oppression while they simultaneously take advantage of their priveliged status against a working class cop.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-25 14:35|| 2009-07-25 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I, for one, am grateful to all participants in this dust up and it's blabbering aftermath. Finally, we are getting a reality check on the bigotted, hateful statements that have passed from the lips of blacks unchallenged in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. What the professor said, in light of his actual circumstances, was strongly counter to his own self interest. The president, mayor, governor and many others responded with knee jerk non-thinkisms. Instead of affirmations or acquiesence they are being met with critical review.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-25 14:37|| 2009-07-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 of course, if you have a critical review, it's because you're a raaaacciisssttt!!11!!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 14:53|| 2009-07-25 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Gates is the only one not backing off. Looks like he gets a PBS series and a lot of publicity out of it. Maybe a book. He's now in full 'reasonable' mode - you can just imagine his friendly smile:

Jordan is absolutely correct: my unfortunate experience will only have a larger meaning if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling and to enhance fairness and equity in the criminal justice system for poor people and for people of color.

And to that end, I look forward to studying the history of racial profiling in a new documentary for PBS. I told the President that my principal regret was that all of the attention paid to his deeply supportive remarks during his press conference had distracted attention from his health care initiative. I am pleased that he, too, is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment, and if meeting Sgt. [James] Crowley for a beer with the President will further that end, then I would be happy to oblige.

After all, I first proposed that Sgt. Crowley and I meet as early as last Monday. If my experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying. Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality."

Somehow I don't think Officer Crowley will be allowed to teach his class anymore, now that an expert has pronounced on his lack of capability.

Posted by KBK 2009-07-25 16:26|| 2009-07-25 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 all it takes for Gates is for an audio tape of full-on McKinney-like craaaaaazy, and he's screwed too. I expect the police/union have a copy for ready-release

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-25 16:32|| 2009-07-25 16:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, I don't have too imagine the smirk anymore.

Posted by KBK 2009-07-25 16:38|| 2009-07-25 16:38|| Front Page Top

#10 #21 Yeah, Now that they've been caught with their pants down, I think pretty soon we're gonna hear that old refrain from Professor Skippy, and President Barry, and Governor Deval and "Reverend" Al..."Can't we just...move on?"
Posted by tu3031 2009-07-23 16:54

Heh...heh...heh. Called it...

Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-25 19:01|| 2009-07-25 19:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest
Maybe Gates is taking on the mantle of the new "Signifying Monkey"

Posted by tipper 2009-07-25 21:49|| 2009-07-25 21:49|| Front Page Top

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