Comments on: “Three Reporters,” Is Right http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178408 Hmmm Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:53:00 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178408 <p>Sorry to hear that too, I’m ale-ing bit myself.</p> Sorry to hear that too, I’m ale-ing bit myself.

]]> By: punaise http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178406 punaise Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:43:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178406 <p>I bottle lot of stuff today. Too bad I got canned.</p> I bottle lot of stuff today. Too bad I got canned.

]]> By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178403 Hmmm Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:15:03 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178403 <p>Sorry you got drafted into this.</p> Sorry you got drafted into this.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178400 KayInMaine Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:58:13 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178400 <p>Oh yes, I’m <em>suuuuuure </em>Joe Biden said he wanted to be there to even out the score. *rolling eyes*</p> Oh yes, I’m suuuuuure Joe Biden said he wanted to be there to even out the score. *rolling eyes*

]]> By: KayInMaine http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178396 KayInMaine Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:52:07 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178396 <p>Can you imagine if a black man in Cambridge stands on his front porch yelling for his dog to come? He’ll be arrested! And the neocon white race will applaud once again. *smacking forehead* The neocon white race doesn’t know or understand the laws in our nation. Sad.</p> Can you imagine if a black man in Cambridge stands on his front porch yelling for his dog to come? He’ll be arrested! And the neocon white race will applaud once again. *smacking forehead* The neocon white race doesn’t know or understand the laws in our nation. Sad.

]]> By: punaise http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178394 punaise Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:46:28 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178394 <p>I’m all tapped out.</p> I’m all tapped out.

]]> By: SanderO http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178393 SanderO Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:42:54 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178393 <p>Biden was there to make it reinforce the idea that it was a chat no the President acting as a mediator. You don’t want the perception of blacks in power ganging up on whites either.</p> Biden was there to make it reinforce the idea that it was a chat no the President acting as a mediator. You don’t want the perception of blacks in power ganging up on whites either.

]]> By: SanderO http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178392 SanderO Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:40:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178392 <p>There has been no MSM forensic reporting on the entire incident. Once again its the balance thing… He did x wrong and that was balanced by he did Y wrong and Obama stuck his face in and that was wrong and you don’t diss cops even when the are wrong and it had to be about race because two black men spoke up blah blah blah.</p> <p>Over the week we have had the facts dibble out and to my reading it’s pretty damning of Crowley and the Cambridge police. Showing up at the WH with a lawyer and a police union leader was nothing more than a visual statement that they are not backing off their perch of power and righteousness.</p> <p>There was an opportunity to bring up all the cases of egregious police abuse of blacks in American, Michael Stewart, Patrick Dorismond, Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Sean Bell, Anthony Baez, tens of them in NYC alone and all the driving while black incidents that have been documented by the 10s of thousands also in NYC (multiply that 100 times for the country.</p> <p>I haven’t seen that lesson being taught to police. I haven’t even seen or heard about Cambridge police investigating the incident.</p> <p>I am waiting for the lessons learned from the incident.</p> <p>My take away:</p> <p>You don’t slam the behavior of police if you are the POTUS.<br /> You look forward and don’t punish some people who have acted unlawfully.<br /> People in Power get a pass PIPGAP</p> There has been no MSM forensic reporting on the entire incident. Once again its the balance thing… He did x wrong and that was balanced by he did Y wrong and Obama stuck his face in and that was wrong and you don’t diss cops even when the are wrong and it had to be about race because two black men spoke up blah blah blah.

Over the week we have had the facts dibble out and to my reading it’s pretty damning of Crowley and the Cambridge police. Showing up at the WH with a lawyer and a police union leader was nothing more than a visual statement that they are not backing off their perch of power and righteousness.

There was an opportunity to bring up all the cases of egregious police abuse of blacks in American, Michael Stewart, Patrick Dorismond, Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Sean Bell, Anthony Baez, tens of them in NYC alone and all the driving while black incidents that have been documented by the 10s of thousands also in NYC (multiply that 100 times for the country.

I haven’t seen that lesson being taught to police. I haven’t even seen or heard about Cambridge police investigating the incident.

I am waiting for the lessons learned from the incident.

My take away:

You don’t slam the behavior of police if you are the POTUS.
You look forward and don’t punish some people who have acted unlawfully.
People in Power get a pass PIPGAP

]]> By: MrCleaveland http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178390 MrCleaveland Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:26:33 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178390 <p>That took a while. Good one.</p> That took a while. Good one.

]]> By: demi http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178388 demi Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:15:46 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/31/three-reporters-is-right/#comment-178388 <p>And, I can’t spell either.<br /> SomeTIMES.</p> And, I can’t spell either.
SomeTIMES.

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