Many people were confused by the New York Times’ jaw-grindingly idiotic column yesterday trying to link candidate Paul Ryan to serial rapist and racist revolutionary Elridge Cleaver:
Paul Ryan, Black Panther?
By ADAM GOODHEART, PETER MANSEAU and TED WIDMERDid Paul Ryan quote a famous 1960s Black Panther Party slogan in his speech on Saturday announcing his candidacy for vice president on the Republican ticket? ...
Romney nominated a grown-up. The best and the brightest of the pack. Who couldn’t like a candidate who cares enough (for their own good) to send 90 cranky Georgetown professors to bed without supper to teach them not to throw temper tantrums about Catholic principles and big words they do not bother to try to understand before bloviating about them in the public square?
I’m also deeply relieved Romney rejected Rubio. It’s probably the best chance Rubio has to prove himself in a substantive way, rather than being artificially elevated through the system on the basis of his identity. Far too many right-of-center pundits carried on about Rubio’s imagined “articulateness” and the “great speeches he was making” while studiously pretending not the see the enormous stumbles that defined his Florida political career. ...
***Updated below***
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn is quoted in the New York Times today sexually slurring Sarah Palin. ...
The New York Times has begun its serial misrepresentations of the protests aimed at the Republican National Convention in August.
“Tampa Restricts Protests” screams the Times headline. ...
The Republican Convention in Tampa is only a few weeks away. The Occupy movement seems to be missing in action or washing their socks, but other activists are still preparing to disrupt the convention. Teamsters, Welfare Rights groups, “Graduate Assistant” coalitions, the ‘new SDS’ and coalitions of subsidized professional agitators such as the Committee to Stop FBI Repression are making plans to descend on Tampa.
Last month, these activists used the taxpayer-funded facilities of the University of South Florida to plan their attack. Why did USF President Judy Genshaft allow our property to be used by a bunch of radicals who are openly planning to disrupt an important political event and violate the speech and participation rights of ordinary Americans? ...
Last year, a tedious brew of Occupy protesters and “Cop-Watch” activists took to the streets in Rochester, New York. They mobilized behind a contemporary flower-child named Emily Good. Good had been detained briefly after interfering in a police stop that occurred outside her urban hipster-neighborhood home.
After the actual subjects of the police stop slunked into the night, never to be heard from again (and doubtlessly grateful that Good’s hysterics had distracted the police), Good and her supporters tried to make hay out of her arrest. She granted interviews to CNN and posed for pictures “doing ministry work” in a drop-waist dress, all the while denouncing the “horrors of police brutality” on Rochester’s violent streets. ...
The disturbingly-named blog commenter Mr. Mittens (whose mittens apparently prevent him from capitalizing words, which I have mostly corrected below in the spirit of promoting capitalism) weighs in with us on the history of anti-cop violence and other radical activism:
I recently spent some time researching the history of left wing bombing incidents in America- specifically the wave of anarchist terror that washed over the entire globe in the mid to late 1800s through the depression. Lots of attacks on cops. Lots of murdered cops. The radical flower bombers of the late 60?s merely picked up where their anarchist grand daddies had left off. Suddenly, they were marxist revolutionaries- but the same old disregard for the law, disregard for other persons and smoldering hatred of the police. a lot of armed robbery to liberate funds for the revolution. and lots of bombs.The more I studied the more I realized I had been lied to in school-or at least been sold a bill of goods that obfuscated and slanted incidents in favor of the radical leftist terrorists (I take this is because my teachers were of that generation). Next to nothing was taught about the unprecedented level of anarchist/communist violence against persons in the early 20th c- it was all about the brave labor movement and the evil business men and their thug cop storm troopers or the fascist government victimizing immigrants. Nothing about 39 bombs mailed to sundry citizens on May Day. Nothing about the likes of Sacco and Vanzetti being card carrying anarchists sworn to violence. Nothing about Haymarket Square in chicago where 60 police officers were wounded and 7 died when a supposed anarchist heaved a stick of dynamite at them at a rally.
Today, children are very likely to learn about Haymarket Square in their classrooms. Unfortunately, what they learn is the problem, as I detail in this report with Mary Grabar, published at Accuracy in Media. ...
Mary Grabar (of the excellent blog Dissident Prof) and I have a new report out at Accuracy in Media. It’s about the political manipulation of schoolchildren by PBS Teachers:
PBS: Re-Educating America’s Schoolchildren, Thanks to Your Contributions
Part of our report discusses a PBS lesson plan in which students are encouraged to “learn about historical research methods” by investigating the origins of a cop-hating poster that was plastered around Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. Of course, the lesson plan celebrates the protesters and doesn’t mention the slaughter of police and others by the Black Panthers, Weathermen, and radicals associated with them. The Panthers, for example, are described as social workers who fed children breakfasts and taught them about politics. ...
Last year, before the Occupy encampments fizzled, it was surely a comfort to parents of college-age “Occupy” protestors that police officers remained near the camps, where drug abuse and overdoses, violent fights, criminal acts of vandalism,and multiple sexual assaults were among the revolution’s few fruits. Protestors churlishly claimed that police alone pose a threat in their utopian tent cities, but scenes of Occupiers smashing store windows or recoiling in shock as police processed yet another suicide at a Vermont camp told a different story:
Police comfort distraught Vermont Occupier after suicide at camp ...
Our latest coverage of George Soros and the demise of the criminology profession made it onto the Watcher’s Council nominations this week. My vote? The Three C’s, at Gates of Vienna, which discusses how political correctness is preventing British police from investigating child sexual exploitation and child rape. It can happen here. Check out the cool historical photographs accompanying the story:
Reading in a London library, 1940 – ’41 ...
While the Tampa City Council and camera-hungry Mayor Bob Buckhorn eagerly grandstand (with the aid of the MSM, of course) about the non-issue of legally registered gun-owners having their weapons with them during the Republican National Convention, take a good look at the types of problems they’re refusing to confront: violent Occupy/black bloc/anarchist thugs destroying businesses in Seattle Tuesday — and sure to be on their way to Tampa for the Republican Convention in August:
Watch the video here. It’s disturbing. (someday, I’ll learn to imbed YouTube videos as well as the average 8-year old): wYT82Fec3cQ ...
Watch this . . . and understand what Britain once was, and still is, and what we might one day no longer be, too . . .
Last night, I passed a milestone of sorts by speaking about crime in Sarasota, Florida. More specifically, the topic was George Soros and his support for the “criminals lobby.” No, there’s no missing apostrophe: Soros lobbies for criminals and for emptying the prisons. This is the cause most likely most dear to his heart, though it often gets short shrift as people explore the rich panoply of his anti-American ambitions.
Who wouldn’t want to empty prisons, so long as there were no criminals in them to begin with? ...
For regular readers (yeah, I imagine my readers are regular), Watcher’s Council is a blogging group posted at all corners of the globe. The writing is a hybrid of politics and not-politics (one of the three seminal blog divides: politics/not politics, food/not food, porn/not porn). I’ve been following some of these folks for years, and their thoughtful commentaries deserve wider audiences.
While I’m still trying to understand the set-up, I asked for and was included in their “Watcher’s Council” nominations for notable posts this week. Below you’ll find the nominated articles. They may interest or infuriate, but they won’t bore. They cement my belief that the internet is the Gentleman’s Journal of the new century . . . and just in time. ...
Suspects Alexander Penley, Nicholas Thommen and Eric Marchese
The N. Y. Post is reporting that police officers were injured by a gang of thugs who got all hopped up at an anarchist book fair and attacked the first cops they saw, shouting “All pigs must die”: ...
With enough clichés to fill a file cabinet labeled Boy’s Town, the Order of St. Duranty of the prefecture of 8th Avenue absolved another preening terrorist last week. And, look! It’s yet another radical chicklet involved in yet another Brinks Robbery. I’m sorry, I mean Father Radical Chic, the Reverend Patrick Moloney, who still thinks it’s extremely funny that some poor innocent Brinks guards suffered the hell of guns held to their temples. Moloney got to wallow in a big pile of money before getting caught and serving a few token years.
Yon Patrick: you don’t hold a gun to the temple of an innocent and then change the location of the money, you chase the money changers out of the . . . oh, never mind. ...
My article about a very frightening new holiday, Pursuit of Happiness Day, is up at Accuracy in Media.
...
This week, the Soros-funded anti-incarceration-criminologists at John Jay College’s The Crime Report excitedly announced a major new initiative: Soros-funded anti-incarceration criminologists are going to pull on their Sherlock Holmes caps and investigate the “causes of incarceration” in America.
Again, because they didn’t find it the last 500 times: ...
When you want to know about homicide and race, or race and the media, or the media and crime, or crime and politicians, ask a cop:
When a local crime story explodes into the nation’s attention, it is worth asking why it has done so. According to the FBI, a murder occurs every 35.6 minutes in the United States, yet few of these killings garner any notice at all beyond the neighborhoods where they occur. So when any one of America’s roughly 15,000 annual homicides attracts what would seem an inordinate level of interest, we are left to wonder why. Are the people involved emblematic of some larger trend? Do the details of the crime offer instruction on how similar crimes might somehow be averted in the future? Or is there some other explanation, one that reflects the choices made by those who decide what stories they see fit to present to their audiences? ...
Occupy Protesters are laying the groundwork to create chaos in Tampa during the Republican National Convention in August.
Tampa residents need to be aware of the ways these professional activists are costing us money. Frivolous confrontations and false accusations against the police are just the first items on the price tag for their planned temper tantrum. I hope the city and the county show the gumption to send the bill to these activists. The Occupiers are raising plenty of money: the fact that they’re keeping their books like some money-laundering pizzaria shouldn’t let them off the dough hook (I can say this because I once worked at a money-laundering pizzaria). Elected officials owe it to taxpayers to sue the non-profit entities through which these protesters are collecting donations. ...
This is so sick, I’m just going to publish it before it disappears from the web. Cameron Maddox tried to assassinate a cop in Atlanta, and Indymedia celebrated his effort and encouraged others to kill cops:
Atlanta Independent Media Center is part of Indymedia, funded by George Soros: ...
That’s Tampa Chief of Police Jane Castor talking about income tax fraud in the Tampa Bay area.
We have a great police force in Tampa. When Chief Castor says the problem is uncontrollable, Congress needs to listen. From the Tampa Tribune: ...
There is a strange article about the Tyler Clementi hate crime conviction in Minding the Campus: in it, Jackson Toby, a professor emeritus, claims that ” criminologists are not enthusiastic supporters of hate-crime laws.”
Bunk. ...
The St. Pete Times (now Tampa Bay Times) has run its latest sob story** about an accused killer, this one Nicholas Lindsey. True to form, the Times announces in its headline that it will explore why life unravelled for the St. Petersburg teen.
There is the usual objection to be made about such stories. The reporting is all about the killer’s alleged good qualities, and the reporters work hard to diminish the killer’s responsibility, even though doing so crudely diminishes the value of the murdered police officer’s life. Buying a Pepsi for a teacher is presented as mitigation against murdering a good man in cold blood. In the past, I’ve had reporters from that paper tell me they believe they are being “balanced” in their reporting by telling the sob story of the murderer one day and the life story of the murder victim the next, as if doing so balances some ethical scale. ...
Don’t get me wrong: it’s always nice to see this disturbed hate-clown get even a little piece of what he deserves:
But Sharpton’s distaff comments about gays are not quite the right focus for the current scandal over Rush Linbaugh calling women s***s, Bill Maher calling women c***s, NPR comic Marc Maron wishing violent rape on Michelle Bachmann, or various other public figures and human rights activists dropping b-bombs and other slurs on women (note: by “various other public figures and human rights activists,” I mean every gay male political activist I’ve ever known, several well-placed professional lesbians, Salon’s entire “sex-positive” girl-staff, and the earth-shoe-wearing-man-heroes of the liberal Left). ...
The First Occupy Movement? Homeless Sex Offenders
Remember 2010, when “homeless sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Bridge” became the latest endangered seals of the liberal left? I blogged about it here: ...
It’s Sunday. That must mean the New York Times is lying about a murder case. This time, reporter Brandy Grissom has slapped together an especially incredible whopper:
Appeal of Death Row Case Is More Than a Matter of Guilt or Innocence
Rob Will, Cop-Killer
The headline is the only factual part of the story. Will’s latest appeal certainly is, as the headline writers put it, “more than a matter of guilt or innocence.” It’s a demonstration of the lengths to which the New York Times and their hand-in-glove activists will go in order to mislead the public about our criminal justice system . . . particularly when the killer in question murdered a cop. ...
. . . lying to Congress about rape that way.
Fluke testified that she knew a fellow Georgetown student who opted to not report a rape because she was worried that her insurance wouldn’t cover the rape examination: ...
Corso is talking about the murder rate in Detroit, which rose an unbelievable 75% in the city’s East Side last year, to the sound of a collective yawn by everyone outside the city limits.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the feds are stepping in to try to suppress more street crimes like these: ...
It’s the family, usually:
Parent of Teen Accused of Shootings Faced Charges (Cleveland.com, no link) ...