It’s late Friday, May 8th, 2015…but before we begin, two examples which typify the moral decay of America. First, the utter hypocrisy exemplified by the modern Left; hypocrisy which the MSM not only embraces, but willingly SELLS to the American people: that was then,…
…this is now:
And nary a mention of the irreconcilability of her two positions in the national press.
Second, proof positive where Jr. learned his morals and ethics:
“I don’t have any doubt about my son’s integrity – not one bit,” Tom Brady Sr. told USA Today on Wednesday. “In this country, you’re innocent until proven guilty. It just seems Tommy is now guilty until proven innocent. This thing is so convoluted. They say that possibly — possibly — he was aware of this. The reality is if you can’t prove he did it, then he’s innocent, and lay off him. That’s the bottom line.”
Yeah…and Mr. Simpson knew The Juice was innocent; after all, the glove didn’t fit, so the jury had to acquit! No, Tom Sr., here’s the bottomline: your son’s a cheater, he plays for a cheater, and if the NFL places the least bit of value on its integrity, they’ll ban your swindling son from professional football for life…along with eligibility for Canton. But they don’t, so they won’t.
Hells bells, Pete Rose was banned for a hell of lot less than what Brady did. Depending on what the NFL does with Brady, we honestly may have watched our last game of pro ball.
Now, here’s a belated edition of The Gouge!
Leading off the last Gouge of the week, Dan Henninger updates us on the latest from Ma & Pa Kettle…er,…Clinton:
“…The World Wide Web, the oxygen of life now, was just coming to life when Bill Clintonwas president. Google appeared in 1998. The opinion-transmission monster called “social media” didn’t arrive until 2004, with Facebook.Twitter hit in 2006. And it wasn’t until the Obama presidency that every single person with a political ax to grind owned the modern version of the frontier equalizer—a smartphone.
Today, these electronic elements have reached critical mass: The people paying really close attention to political news at such an early stage of a presidential campaign are vastly more numerous than ever.
So when Bill Clinton tells an NBC reporter somewhere in Africa, “I gotta pay our bills,” it flows instantly into a complex political ecosystem that reinterprets what he said, and not in a good way.James Carville and the rest of the Clinton surrogate crew don’t have enough spin time in their lives to offset this torrent. Type “I gotta pay our bills” into Twitter’s search window, and the screen will fill with tiny blue birds cackling about the Clintons’ family wage slave…”
Remember one thing: absent Bush I’s infamous and incredibly inept breaking of his…
…”no new taxes” pledge, the Clintons wouldn’t even be a footnote in history.
The Bush Family:
The RINO gift that keeps on taking! Just as George H.W. gave us Der Schlickmeister, George W. begat The Obamao; America won’t be able to endure the abomination which Jeb will usher in.
Speaking of lying Liberals and absolute abominations (but we repeat ourselves!), NRO‘s Richard Douglas kills both birds with one carefully cast stone as he details…
“…Eight years on Baltimore’s city council, eight years as Baltimore mayor, and eight years as Maryland’s governor. During much of O’Malley’s quarter century in power, he had an invulnerable Democratic majority in Annapolis, powerful Maryland Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate, and Democrats in charge in the White House. O’Malley’s tenure held promise for Maryland.But the promise was squandered when he failed to turn Maryland around.At city hall and in the statehouse, O’Malley missed opportunity after opportunity to make critical improvements.Last week’s riot is proof.Confident, optimistic people do not destroy and burn.
Appearing May 3 on NBC’s Meet the Press, O’Malley declared that “what’s happened in Baltimore should be a wake-up call for the entire country. . . . We have deep problems as a country, and we need deeper understanding if we’re going to give our children a better future.” O’Malley’s apparent blindness to his own culpability for the riots is astonishing…”
No, not blindness; it’s called chutzpah. And the local Baltimore rag was, is and will always be only too willing to “cover” his incompetence.
Since we’re on the Progressive-induced plight of America’s urban centers, again courtesy of NRO, Kevin Williamson suggests…
“…There are two straightforward ways to improve the material conditions of people living in the poor parts of Baltimore: Move them out or move capital in. There is a little something to be said for moving people out of dysfunctional communities; I have in the past argued for a kind of reverse incarceration for young men convicted of serious crimes in gang cases — i.e., that during probation or parole they could live anywhere in the country they liked, so long as it was more than 200 miles from their home town. But that’s a narrow question. The real issue is moving people, businesses, and resources into poor neighborhoods — which is not going to happen when the locals are assaulting people, burning down businesses, and destroying resources.Lawlessness and violence convert assets into liabilities — all those boarded-up houses that once were homes are attractive nuisances on a massive scale.Somebody, somewhere, wants to sell things in those abandoned Baltimore storefronts, but no one can, because it is not safe.And that’s the horrible irony here.
If Baltimore wants to get its economic act together, it has to get something else right first: policing.So far, neither the police department nor the people of Baltimore have shown any particular capacity for keeping the peace.“
All of which means no major city in America is the slightest bit interested in the idea.
In a related item, writing again at NRO, Jonah Goldberg rightly reports…
“…Some social scientists argue that peers are more important than parents in determining how kids turn out. Others argue that parents, particularly married parents, are the crucial factor. And everyone agrees that schools, criminal-justice policies, and racial attitudes are important variables. The debates are about how much weight we should give them.
All of these factors influence each other. In very poor neighborhoods they combine to compound problems. In middle-class neighborhoods, they reinforce each other in positive ways.
In other words, neighborhoods matter because culture matters. Middle-class families have always known this, which is why so many parents move to the suburbs in pursuit of safer streets, better schools, and shared values. Maybe parents matter less than peers. But parents have an enormous role in deciding what kind of peers their kids will be exposed to…”
Meanwhile, courtesy of Patriot Update, David Goetsch wonders, in a rhetorical sense…
“…Here are just a few of the pertinent facts the mainstream media conveniently overlooks in its coverage of shootings by police officers:
Police kill more whites than blacks every year. Approximately forty-nine percent of the suspects killed by police every year are white, 30 percent are black, 19 percent are Hispanic, and 2 percent or Asian. These figures hardly indicate a war on blacks by bigoted white police officers.
Most young black men killed in America are killed by other young black men.If there is truly a war being waged on young black men it is apparently being waged by young black men.
Police officers are six times more likely to be killed by a black person than to kill a black person.The deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray generated responses that included public outrage, demonstrations, looting, arson, and vandalism, not to mention hours upon hours of media coverage—most of it slanted to portray the police as the bad guys. But where was the outrage and where were the demonstrations when two police officers were brutally murdered by a black man while they sat in their police cruiser in New York?
Here are some additional facts that suggest anti-white/anti-police bias in the media’s coverage of shootings by police officers:
It is not news when a white person is killed by a cop—regardless of the cop’s race.To get a feel for the double standard applied by the mainstream media when cops shoot a suspect, consider the case of Gilbert Collar. You’ve probably never heard of him since the mainstream media ignored his case. Collar was an 18 year-old college student at the University of South Alabama who was shot and killed while unarmed and under the influence of drugs. Sounds like the type of police brutality case the mainstream media would salivate over. Right? Wrong. Collar was shot and killed by a black police officer. The officer, Trevis Austin, was cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury. Having not seen the evidence, I cannot comment on the fact that the officer escaped indictment. For all I know he acted properly and with appropriate discretion. But the important point concerning this shooting by a police officer is that there was very little media coverage, no public outrage, no demonstrations, no protestors carrying signs that read “white lives matter,” and no Al Sharpton doing his best to turn grieving relatives into aggrieved victims of a racist system. The deaths of white suspects—or Hispanic or Asian suspects for that matter—are not considered newsworthy by mainstreams journalists who are more committed to promulgating their fictitious narrative on race than they are to the truth.
When white people are killed by cops or by blacks, their grieving loved ones are not portrayed as victims of a racially-biased system that is making war on white people.This in spite of the fact that police officers kill more white suspects every year than blacks.Whites have yet to turn out undisciplined mobs that rob, loot, and burn in response to a police officer shooting a white person, a fact ignored by the mainstream media.(Gee…anyone else beginning to catch the connection between the MSM’s double-standard regarding this issue, and their unequal treatment of Christians, Jews and Mormons versus their avid embrace of Islam?!?) The same is true of Hispanics and Asians.
The anti-white/anti-police bias in the coverage of shootings by police is obvious.What is not obvious is the reasons behind the bias. For a number of years now mainstream print and television journalists have been accused—with good reason—of dramatizing, emotionalizing, and sensationalizing the news in an attempt to reverse the erosion of readership and viewership attributed to talk radio, cable television, and the Internet. In recent years, it has become widely accepted that the sins and missteps of mainstream journalism have been driven by desperation tied to the inherent sense of survival.
But the biases that now characterize mainstream journalism—and they extend well beyond just anti-white/anti-police bias—seem to grow out of something even more powerful than money. In fact, those who still attribute mainstream media bias to financial competition might want to ask why persistent ratings losers on CNN and MSNBC, for example, are still on the air. To continue sensationalizing the news, to continue creating controversies where no controversy exists, and to continue ignoring the facts in the face of evidence that suggests these nefarious practices are hurting rather than helping suggests a motivation that is even deeper and more powerful than money…”
Boys and girls, can you spell “Socialist ideology”? We knew you could!
Turning from the deliberately deceptive to the utterly ignorant, we present the “wisdom” of Kareem Abdul Jabaar, aka Lew Alcindor, aka Clarence the Co-Pilot:
“Joey, have you ever been accused of being a racist simply on the basis of your skin color?”
“…The Baltimore uprising isn’t just about Freddie Gray. The image of the cops carrying him, his legs dangling uselessly, his neck crooked awkwardly is a visual manifestation of the impotence many African Americans have felt over the past year as death after death of black people at the hands of police keep adding up. After each death there is the usual flurry of outrage, protests, political promises, celebrity tweeting, and condemnation of protestors. Then nothing happens until the next death, which is often tragically close behind. About 70 unarmed blacks have been killed by police between 1999 and 2014. The only thing that seems to change is that the list of the dead keeps getting longer…”
Except that, immediately thereafter, career-criminal Freddie found his way into the van on his own power. C’mon Kareem, get a clue! We’re curious: how does Kareem’s god-given height make him an expert on anything but towering over undersized opponents?!?
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