“Henry Louis Gates (who does not care for his slave name and prefers his true African name: Skip)”

Best line of the day.

Malkin has a problem telling adverbs and adjectives apart, doesn’t she?

Obama didn’t call the Cambridge cops “stupid,” he said they acted “stupidly.” Of all people, Michelle Malkin should know the difference between these two.

Now the police officer claims he chose to save Reggie Lewis’ life even though he’s a schwartzer. Cambridge sounds like a dangerous place to get something stuck in your throat.

Reading thru the police report it is pretty obvious the cop acted stupidly – he arrested the guy after determining he was in his own home, vouched for by another employee from Harvard.

So, in America, we can now be arrested for yelling at cops from within our homes?

Bill Kristol who is always concerned when people make rash judgments when they don’t know what they are talking about:

Oh, man, thanks for the LOL, I needed it!

Snort.

FunnyWheelieDiva

You’re expecting intellectual honesty from La Malkkkin?
It is to laugh!!!

FWDiva

OK, I take that back.
Kristol is only concerned when other people make rash judgements when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
A feat that is impossible for him, since he, by definition, according to his own delusion of adequacy, always knows what he’s talking about.

FWDiva

I saw the whole thing. What happened??

Once, just once, I wish Obama would say,

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you!!!”

Also. “If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”

I move that we create a new term. Like “Santorum” or “Walking the Appalachian Trail.” “Skip Gates broke into my house.” I think that can be a great euphemism, but I’m not sure for what.

I thought “stupidly” was the appropriate word to use because it does not imply forethought. It implies a reaction. The officer had a reaction. It was stupid, but not ignorant (meaning did not know better), not dumb (meaning not able to understand). It was just plain stupid – a bad decision made in a short amount of time. The officer should apologize and the professor should be generous in his forgiveness.

I agree that Malkin probably does have a problem differentiating adverbs from adjectives.

But she is also a lying sack of fetid pig shit who would spray gasoline on a fire in an orphanage if she thought it would serve her fucking agenda.

Has Malkin investigated what the counters in Gates’ kitchen are made of? Enquiring minds want to know.

Also, Bill Kristol was a professor at Harvard?!? Seriously!?!

There’s a scandal waiting to be uncovered there, no doubt.

I bet Ms. Lucia Whalen will look the other way the next time she sees someone put a shoulder to a door. That’s too bad.

It’s hard to believe Crowley couldn’t have de-escalated the confrontation when he realized that Gates was the lawful resident. But wouldn’t the police have turned up with similar questions if Gates and his companion had been white? Gates flew off the handle and might have chosen to react differently if he’d had time to think. Damn there are so many undercurrents and stereotypes to battle in such a situation. But there’s no doubt it was stupid to arrest the lawful resident for shouting in this situation. Bad, bad call. The departure of the police would have been as effective in ending the shouting as arresting the guy. And without all this fallout.

Didn’t Ozzy sing about “Officer Crowley”?

did Gates fly off the handle before they determined he was in his own house. up until that point the reaction was the same, but after that i do not think the reaction is the same

The President is black?

The Cambridge Police managed to take a very ordinary set of circumstances and turn it into a high-profile, controversial, and embarrassing arrest of a famously mild-mannered scholar, an arrest in which the charges were quickly dropped.

I think that’s the very definition of acting “stupidly.”

Cue the cheerleadin’ Michelle, give me a ‘K‘, give me a another ‘K‘, give me a yet another ‘K‘, what does it spell?

If I thought these bloated, privileged, whiney white guys were really scared I’d enjoy their tantrums.

Instead their faux outrage to cover up their racism just enrages me more.

These guys need some real suffering in their lives, and I don’t mean the S&M variety they pay for on the weekend.

Second, Obama answered a question about his friend Henry Louis Gates’s run-in with the Cambridge cops,…

I just love how these whiter-shade-of-dumb-Americans–like Kristol–seem to think all the hyphenated-Americans of a particular racial or ethnic persuasion are “friends.”

I just love how these whiter-shade-of-dumb-Americans–like Kristol–seem to think all the hyphenated-Americans of a particular racial or ethnic persuasion are “friends.”

Well, Kristol is friends with all of the other trust fund collecting, born on third base and they think they hit a home run, college legacy, self-important, smug, white-skinned meatsacks so why should he think otherwise?

born on third base and they think they hit a home run

LOL

OT, but ZOMG ROFLMAO funny.

These guys need some real suffering in their lives…

My writing mentor occaisionally teaches Creative Writing at USC. She said that it’s a real challenge because some of the kids’ notion of a tragedy was when they had to leave their Beemer at the mechanic’s for three days.

I hate to be fair to Kristol, but I also don’t want to stoop to his sty.

Obama and Gates are friends and Obama prefaced his remarks by noting that he and Gates are friends.

They’d have to be friends. If somebody called me Skip and he wasn’t my friend, I’d punch him. Which is fine, ’cause I’m white. If I was black and punched some Skip-caller, I’d be tased and sent to Gitmo.

But she is also a lying sack of fetid pig shit who would spray gasoline on a fire in an orphanage if she thought it would serve her fucking agenda.

that’s poetry man, sheer poetry. seriously.

I. for one, would love for a neighbor of MM to report a suspicious, illegal immigrant-looking person making odd cheerleading-type video’s in her yard. And when the police came to check it out, I’m betting she’d be quite insulted and I’m sure her tone would go shriek level ugly in a hurry.

I went to one of Prof Bill Kristol’s classes at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard one day. A friend was taking his course on leadership and invited me along. Kristol wasn’t very good and failed to bring out the knowledge of his students, members of the mid-career Master’s program, people with a lot of experience. The folks at the Kennedy School and Shorenstein Center have been very protective of Kristol. They like him. At another event, a Shorenstein Center brown bag lunch, I was asked not to be “too hard on poor Bill,” as I guess I have a reputation for asking impertinent questions. That day, I decided Kristol wouldn’t answer any question I could pose in any substantive manner. He was blase and superiorly bored.

I’ve seen Gates around Harvard Square from time to time. My impression is that he is extremely smart but also very full of himself. Another friend, who worked with him on the Encyclopedia Africana, was not complimentary about the man. Harvard is Harvard and that is all about privilege. Gates probably got a raw deal being arrested in his own home but I suspect he also rode his high horse as hard as he could.

If Kristol had his door get stuck, he would have called the maintenance guy at the realty co. and asked them to get down there immediately for he,the Great Bill Kristol was stuck outside his residence. All this,ofcourse, will be done in a Bill Buckley Haa-vurd accent. As far as Michelle, she’s got some envy issues – c’mon you know she wanted to get into an Ivy but she wasn’t good enough so she ended up at Oberlin. Nothing against Oberlin but it is nowhere as competitive as Haa-vurd .

I hate to be fair to Kristol, but I also don’t want to stoop to his sty.

Obama and Gates are friends and Obama prefaced his remarks by noting that he and Gates are friends.

My bad. I didn’t see the broadcast; and reading Kristol’s commentaries makes my stomach churn–and right now I don’t need the extra stress.

With Malkin, it’s hard to tell where the stupidly ends and the stupid begins.

Or vice versa, also.

just love how these whiter-shade-of-dumb-Americans–like Kristol–seem to think all the hyphenated-Americans of a particular racial or ethnic persuasion are “friends.”

Um, except Obama and Skip ARE friends, actually.

And I am waiting for Malkin to explain how somebody saying he ‘doesn’t know what role race played in it’= implying someone was racist.

Gates is Obama’s friend, as he indicates in the first sentence of his resonse to Lynn Sweet:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Recently, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge. What does that incident say to you? And what does it say about race relations in America?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I — I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. (emphasis added)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07…..wanted=all

Which is not to say that anything Kristol or Malkin says on the topic is any less stupid, ignorant, and racist.

Ruthie –

Sorry for the apparent piling on; it seems a number of commenters responded in the time it took me to write my reply.

Actually, it’s “born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.” Thinking “home run” makes no sense in this context.

First heard this in relation to Dubya; it pairs nicely with Ann Richards’ observation that he was “born with a silver spoon in his mouth”.

I think she said silver foot. Good Lord, is she missed.

As for Gates’s “high horse”, yeah, probably, but that’s not an arrestable offense. Of course, I don’t know if the cop’s a racist or an asshole or what, but it sure reads as though he arrested Dr Gates for not being deferential enough.

it pairs nicely with Ann Richards’ observation that he was “born with a silver spoon in his mouth”.

You are correct, Ann said “born with a silver foot in his mouth.”

Believe the “born on third base and thinks he hit a triple” line was first penned by Molly Ivins, who could turn a phrase like no other. I’m not sure about that but I think it’s true and it sure sounds like something Molly would have written.