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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (16197)	7/26/2009 8:08:08 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Another biased article... maybe if the author actually read the police report and knew something about gates he wouldn't make such absurd comments, his words only reveal his ignorance and race baiting agenda... He writes: Gates is not a merchant of racial grievance. Really? Is that why gates has a known history of causing racial disturbances in bars? This clown gates is nothing more than a merchant of racial grievance and I would guess he probably brow beat his way into his current professor status by intimidating the university with the race card... If the police came to my house and asked me to show some photo ID to verify I lived there, I would show him my driver's license and show him that it has the same address on it... moreover, I would be very courteous and thank him for checking to make sure I'm not just a burglar, I would appreciate that he was there to protect my property... any normal person would most likely do the same thing... how come gates didn't? How come gates ranted racial threats and tried to brow beat the cop who was just trying to do his job? Absolutely, that is really stupid, and he's supposed to be an educated person? I don't think gates is educated at all, he's an ignorant, arrogant fool and the police had more than ample cause to arrest him... GZ

To: puborectalis who wrote (16197)	7/26/2009 1:04:37 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

the only racists in this story are Gates and Obama

To: puborectalis who wrote (16197)	7/26/2009 6:44:30 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

Part of Gates Gate Not Getting Much Media Attention By Warner Todd Huston on New York Post A recent New York Post story brought up a point about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that few in the Old Media have paid much attention to. Apparently, Gates has since the arrest announced he is in the early stages of involvement in a PBS TV series on civil rights in America. It is odd that this single fact has not been a focus of much discussion. After all, if Gates is about to start a TV show about civil rights, what better way to punch up that participation than to "suddenly" get mixed up in a national civil rights "abuse" case? What better way to highlight America's civil rights problem than to become a nationally known victim of so-called racism? Why is no one asking how long Gates has been in the planning stages of this TV show? Was he planning it since before the arrest? It all leads one to wonder if Gates saw an opportunity to gin up interest in his TV appearance by becoming a victim? Instead of experiencing any actual racial tension, did Gates invent his own ready-made, sensational incident to turn his scholarly civil rights discussion into the quintessential TV reality show extravaganza? Was all this just a TV stunt in Gates' mind? Was it mere opportunism? This all seems like a legitimate line of questioning to me. I wonder why the Old Media has not pursued the question? The New York Post quotes Gates as having said, "My unfortunate experience will only have a larger meaning if we can all use this to diminish racial profiling . . . I look forward to studying the history of racial profiling in a new documentary for PBS." Further, if this had been an incident involving a conservative participating in a TV show, wouldn't the media go ga-ga over the possibility that his victimhood was merely a staged stunt for TV? What if, for instance, a conservative involved in a documentary about gun rights was to be arrested over his possession of a gun? Would the media claim that the arrest made such a conservative a victim, or would the media find itself claiming that the conservative was just cynically trying to gin up interest in his TV appearance? In fact, a conservative TV personality is almost daily accused of faking it for TV. Glenn Beck is ridiculed as a sensationalist and one about to suffer a "nervous breakdown" every time he gets worked up on TV. The left constantly questions his motives wondering if he is just making a show of it, doubting that he really cares as deeply about the issues as he appears to. Yet, there isn't a single voice questioning Gates' TV connected motives here. I wonder why that is?