Posted on 03/16/2015 12:35:36 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The late evening of Aug. 9, 2014, I couldnt sleep. I was due to substitute-anchor MSNBCs UP with Steve Kornacki and should have been asleep. But after looking at my Twitter feed and reading the rage under #Ferguson, I felt compelled to type a reaction to the killing of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. Tying the shooting to the inane whine of certain politicians about a war on whites, I decried the next morning the death of yet another unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer.
In those early hours and early days, there was more unknown than known. But this month, the Justice Department released two must-read investigations connected to the killing of Brown that filled in blanks, corrected the record and brought sunlight to dark places by revealing ugly practices that institutionalized racism and hardship. They have also forced me to deal with two uncomfortable truths: Brown never surrendered with his hands up, and Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.
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A man named Walter Duranty was the trailblazer for such lies in the 1930s.
None of these ideas will ever be repudiated by American liberals. They still believe McCarthy was involved with the “Hollywood Ten”. They still support the Great Society, and why wouldn’t they since Nixon expanded it.
The Justice Dept. report on the shooting of Michael Brown forced me to face uncomfortable truths.
Well, here's another little morsel that bites back: This guy is still relying on stuff from Holder's desk to get clued in.
Is he any less screwed now than he was six months ago? Really? Relying on Holder and The Impostor for clue-by-fours?
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