Last Call

Jack: It’ time to move on…I think you got enough press out of this story. Let’s get to the stuff that matters for the economy.

How about talking about the positive signs that the economy is slightly better and the programs which are out there to re-educate people so that they can find new careers? How about talking about the home sales improving and home prices increasing slightly, or the fact that many companies have shown profits in spite of the economy. Guess that is not the news you want to spread.
What I think a good reporter would do is find out what good has come out of the stimulus instead of what is so overblown like the “beer party.” Our president did the wrong thing to express an opinion but he did the right thing to bring the people together.

talmag:”What I think a good reporter would do is…”
This is a blog and not the front page for a reason. A little ranting when he posts a shallow treatment of a serious subject is certainly called for, but this is a puff piece about a puff subject (sure the symbolism counts for something, but it doesn’t take a deep thinker to get the message). Don’t waste your time clicking the blog entry if you don’t care about the subject.

It’s over until Obama’s mask slips again.
Must be hard for him to hide all the built up contempt he has for the media, women, whites, unborn children, cops, the elderly, our military.
Consider some of his unscripted remarks when the truth slips out:
Hold on sweetie and lipstick on a pig
The military are bombing villages
Punished with a child
Cops acted stupidly
Typical white person
Take a painkiller
And the media?
He constantly demeans them. But who can respect a doormat?
Obama is an angry dangerous man that has to put on a show every single day.

anon:”The arrest was necessary. Gates was uncooperative, belligerent, screaming wildly and appeared to be spinning out of control. ”
He was not belligerent – there has been no indication he made threats of physical violence against the officers or himself.
We are not a police state. The police do not have the right to arrest and imprison for any period people just for being rude to them. This overstepping of police powers is going to become only more of an issue as the number of ex-military (who operate by necessity under VERY different rules) making up the police force surges. It needs to be nipped in the bud every chance we get.
Police should be held in high respect because they have a difficult job. And part of that respect comes from putting up with pretentious jerks yelling at them from their own front porch without arresting them without legal cause.
The last jury I was on, a bunch of white, suburbanite middle class folks, quickly concluded the police were lying and disregarded their testimony about incriminating statements the defendant supposedly made after being arrested. Why do you think that is?

===Why do you think that is?===
The police were lying? Which has what to do with what happened in Cambridge? I can give you example after example of the opposite being true and it has nothing to do with what happened in Cambridge.

Posted by: Axey | Jul 31, 2009 11:07:14 AM
Axey,
You need to understand that by taking an unrelated anecdote from an unrelated court case happening in a different time and place and involving a bunch of people we don’t know is the perfect way to understand the Gates issue. See how easy?

===Posted by: Moving Goalposts | Jul 31, 2009 11:13:32 AM===
MG,
Anything to distract the country from a failed presidency. And a racist himself to boot.

Axey:”And a racist himself to boot.”
Seriously? Now the Republican line is that Obama, who was criticized for having more white men in his administration’s top positions than George Bush, is racist?
The Democrats aren’t exactly governing geniuses, but at least they aren’t living in a fantasy land where rich white men are always a downtrodden victim class.

===Seriously? Now the Republican line is that Obama, who was criticized for having more white men in his administration’s top positions than George Bush, is racist?===
What does how many white, black, red or green men in Obama’s administration have to do with him being racist?
===where rich white men are always a downtrodden victim class. ===
No, they save their victim class for overpaid Harvard professors, whose first instinct was to pick up a phone to call the chief and ask do you know who I am (turns out that threat was real, wasn’t it?) instead of middle of the road white policemen.

jpt writes:
“And with that, this story is over.”
What?! Closing time?
No “teachable moment” about Officer Lashley, Gates’ phony Inkwell non-profit?

–What?! Closing time?–
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

===Sure thing, and what does the KKK having only white members have to do with them being racist?===
Talk to someone else. You are clearly in denial that Obama is indeed a racist. A fact that should have been evident when it became clear the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his pastor.

===How about the the dropping of charges against the New and Improved Black Panthers for voter intimidation? No?===
I wonder if that was politically motivated?

Axey:”Talk to someone else. You are clearly in denial that Obama is indeed a racist.”
That’s right folks, the guy with a white mother, beloved white grandmother, a staff full of white guys, and dark skin is a racist. Welcome to the new Republican party – reality optional.

No, of course Obama is not a racist.
But at his press conference, right after saying “not having been there and not seeing all the facts”–he should have said “I will not comment at this time.”
But, no ACORN community agitator can resist an opportunity to fan the flames of racial hatred for political gain–so Obama quickly spouted off “the Cambridge police acted stupidly.”
Only one beer drinker should have apologized at that meeting: Obama. Oh…..and Biden for being a moron.

“Oh…..and Biden for being a moron.”
Being reduced to the role of “extra man” at the beer bust, there to provide racial balance, can’t make Biden feel any better.

The 911 caller Marcia Whalen has stated about her exchange with Crowley . . .
“The ONLY words I exchanged were ‘I was the 911 caller’ and he pointed to me and said ‘Stay right there’. NOTHING MORE THAN THAT.”
Crowley then puts in his report that Whalen told him there were ’2 black men with backpacks”.
If Whalen said nothing about ’2 black men’, we are left to wonder why did Crowley put this in his report since it isn’t true?
If it’s a mistake, then we know Crowley is capable of making a mistake and putting it in an official police report as if it were true – not good. If it’s something he made up because it helped his cause to have a report of ’2 black men’ – even worse.
Neither of those options reflects that well on Crowley’s reliability.
Putting untrue information in a police report puts the credibility of Crowley’s information in question.
And this puts the entire situation in question. Not as easily defined as some here would like it to be. All the facts are still not in.

Now we can go back to pretending Obama sat in Rev Wright’s church for 20 years but never heard the sermons.
And that he never knew Bill Ayers tried to kill cops.

“Now we can go back to pretending Obama sat in Rev Wright’s church for 20 years but never heard the sermons.”
Apparently Republicans are very good at pretending.
“A DC-based lobbying firm specializing in organizing “grassroots” and “minority” efforts for big business has fired an employee who reportedly forged anti-climate change letters using the names of fictitious officials at real Hispanic and black groups, according to Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress.
It’s a crazy story — and what that gives Democrats ammo going into the recess.
The firm, run by Jack Bonner, a former RNC official and aide to late Sen. John Heinz (R-Penn.), has represented the energy and coal industries in the past.”
Astroturf taken to whole new heights.

1. Did you know that it only takes about 15 minutes to teach your parrot to say “He’s a racist,” A Parrot doesn’t have the intelligence to know what it’s saying, it’s just mimicking what it heard. In an effort to stop name calling, children in elementary schools are taught to take ownership of their feelings by using “I” messages; “I don’t like it when you cut in line, I don’t like it when it when you call me names,” etc.. This helps children to solve problems using their own intelligence and not just mimicking someone else
Posted by: Mike | Jul 31, 2009 12:19:16 AM in comments at the previous post here
2. Talk to someone else. You are clearly in denial that Obama is indeed a racist. A fact that should have been evident when it became clear the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his pastor.
Posted by: Axey | Jul 31, 2009 12:23:56 PM
3. Fox News Channel executives are distancing themselves from controversial — and popular — host Glenn Beck, who Tuesday morning branded President Obama a “racist.”
The combustable Beck ignited a firestorm when, during a Tuesday morning appearance on FNC’s freewheeling “Fox and Friends,” he said the President’s reaction to the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest situation in Cambridge, Mass., suggested a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
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Anyone thinking there are some parrots posting here?

Alyson . ..
“1. Did you know that it only takes about 15 minutes to teach your parrot to say “He’s a racist,” A Parrot doesn’t have the intelligence to know what it’s saying, it’s just mimicking what it heard. In an effort to stop name calling, children in elementary schools are taught to take ownership of their feelings by using “I” messages; “I don’t like it when you cut in line, I don’t like it when it when you call me names,” etc.. This helps children to solve problems using their own intelligence and not just mimicking someone else
Posted by: Mike | Jul 31, 2009 12:19:16 AM in comments at the previous post here
2. Talk to someone else. You are clearly in denial that Obama is indeed a racist. A fact that should have been evident when it became clear the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his pastor.
Posted by: Axey | Jul 31, 2009 12:23:56 PM
3. Fox News Channel executives are distancing themselves from controversial — and popular — host Glenn Beck, who Tuesday morning branded President Obama a “racist.”
The combustible Beck ignited a firestorm when, during a Tuesday morning appearance on FNC’s freewheeling “Fox and Friends,” he said the President’s reaction to the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest situation in Cambridge, Mass., suggested a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Anyone thinking there are some parrots posting here?
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yes indeed . . .

Time for the Wash Post to fire that idiot sexist Dana Milbank.

“So which is it? Did Crowley put in false info or we still don’t know? ”
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Posted by: danita | Jul 31, 2009 1:44:27 PM
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I’ve yet to see anywhere Whalen made the statement Danita claims. She did not make it in her press conference. As a matter of fact, she ended her press conference saying that she respected the Cambridge police. Even if she had made the statement Danita claims, the logic is flawed as it would then be a he said/she said situation, not proof of any falsification.