Posted on 05/31/2015 2:14:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Scott’s post, “The Unmaking of a Mayor,” directs our attention to the stunning exchange between Fox News Channel’s Leland Vittert and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake during her weekly press conference. Vittert was pressing Rawlings-Blake on whether the wave of shootings that has plagued Baltimore is related to the sharp decline in arrests.
Rawlings-Blake looked like a deer in the headlights. I almost wanted to find her a “safe space” and some Play-Doh.
Trying to buy time, the mayor said, “I am not 100 percent sure what you’re doing.” When Vittert responded that, as a journalist, he was asking a question of the mayor, Rawlings-Blake found her way out:
"You’re not. You’re being rude, just like you were before. So if you would like to ask a question and give me an opportunity to answer, we can do this. Otherwise, I will end the conference."
Ah, the rudeness card. It shuts down discussion on college campuses; why not at City Hall?
There was a time when the mayor was the toughest SOB in town, out-and-out gangsters excluded. Think of Chicago’s Mayor Daley, Philadelphia’s Mayor Rizzo, or (in more recent times) New York’s Rudy Giuliani.
Modern liberalism hasn’t produced their like, but it has produced mayors who could hold their own, or better, with the press. In Washington, Marion Barry always gave at least as good as he got. In Baltimore, Martin O’Malley didn’t respond to questions by wondering what the questioner was “doing” or by threatening to take his marbles and go home because the questioner was “rude.”
Does Rawlings-Blake represent a new, pathetically weak breed of big city mayors? I don’t follow urban politics closely enough to say.
But Rawlings-Blake has been an up-and-comer. She is Secretary of the Democratic National Committee and vice president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
I’m hard pressed to explain Rawlings-Blake’s rise to prominence. However, I may be able to explain why ninnies like her might well have a prominent place in Democratic politics going forward.
Colleges, as I have alluded to twice in this post, have been permitting students to hide from and/or shut down debate with conservatives. Thus, they are producing fewer and fewer liberals capable of arguing with conservatives.
Perhaps more importantly, they are producing more and more voters who don’t expect politicians to do so. Thus, we shouldn’t be shocked if it becomes acceptable to dodge tough questions on the ground that the questioner is “rude.” Or at least okay for women, and especially women of color, to do so.
It has always been assumed that political debate should be a bit rough-and-tumble and that journalists should ask tough questions. But then, it was once assumed that academic debate should be vigorous, with all sides represented and no begging off for hurt feelings.
I think I see the future, and it looks distressingly like Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. And in that future, I detect chaos that conceivably could bring back more “diverse” versions of Richard Daley and Frank Rizzo.
This is a really important point. I'm surrounded by Liberals in MA and I know their positions just as well as they know their positions. Why is abortion OK? Why is religion a waste of time? Poverty? Racism? Defense? I know where Liberals are coming from on all these issues -- how could I not? The culture in which I live shoves these views down my throat constantly.
But it's just not true when you switch the roles. How many Liberals understand the Conservative position on Abortion? Guns? Women in the workforce? Racism? They have some cartoon version of "the Conservative solution" to these problems.
Just as an example:
I was at a party last summer, and this ultra Liberal woman was going on about how we need to force people to give up their guns, and force people to stop pushing Christianity on people, and force companies to hire blacks, and force rich people to pay more taxes.
I spoke up and said, "Sounds like you really want a 1984 type of society where everyone has to do what you say."
She was outaged: "You! You're a Republican! I know where you're coming from! You want to oppress everyone! You want control!! It's all about control with you Republicans!"
I said: "You're the one talking about forcing people to do this or that. I'm a Republican: I just want to be left alone. That's it."
"Huh!" she sniffed. "Not even honest about your views!" and she stalked off.
Liberals have no idea what we believe. And they are afraid to find out.
She is a girl fro heavens sake, ask any father, girls cry. There bottom lip quivers and they cry. Rawlings-Blake is a girl so she cries and hopes for the best, next she will say, "I'm sorry" and that will make everything ok.
God wrote a bit in His book about her, some advice for her dad, that he evidently ignored, speaking of her dad, I wonder if she ever knew him, I wonder if even her mother is sure who he is?
Her mother was an M.D. Her father - her mother’s husband - was a long-time Democrat pol in Maryland.
I’m hard pressed to explain Rawlings-Blake’s rise to prominence.
Answer: Racial preferences, tokenism - including special handling and care during her life within the womb of government schools and beyond.
Being actually asked relevant questions had to be a shock to her as a member of the protected class.
Liberals control literally every aspect of our entire society,
so they must be doing something right.
Until the conservative side ATTACKS this woman, and calls
her a racist or a race traitor, she'll be the next governor of Maryland.
Obviously the problem in Baltimore is White Privilege and the MicroAgression of conservative news sources.
Instead, the reporter should have asked Rawlings-Blake what it feels like to be the biggest horses _$$ east of the Mississippi.
she is an accident. that chick literally fell into the job when the last mayor of Baltimore was convicted of — I forget exactly what, but it was serious. stephanie was president of the city council, or some such, and succeeded to office without being elected.
Ah, Rawlings-Blake pulls that shite all the time and is rude as they come I’ve seen it myself in other black women,too.
She’s so full of herself it’s not funny but let me tell you when she basically told that reporter to “shut up” or else she was closing out it was pure and simple racism, her black woman ego and as an entitled black bigot.
She gave that reporter the “death stare” & “death words”=- it’s a intimidation tatic used by many blacks who walk the tightrope in securing their careers and these people actually think it works.
A long long time ago when I was in college I used to work for ______ in Dept _____ I was in a large group of people who were all black and just about 5 whites on staff.
There was a woman who did not have managerial position but did some sort of other work I believe her name was ____and ____ gave me the death stare many a time not only because I had struck up a friendship with one of my co-workers and we really bonded both being from the area and we would share stories about our kids & her boyfriend & my boyfriend, etc.. you get my drift. _____ had her own hegemony in this scene and it was all black cultural politics. She wasn’t paarticularly intelligent but she certainly exercised her cultural politics over others & many actually were afraid of her. She was like a slow moving whale with the brain of shark.
______ gave me & the co-worker the death stare all the time & gave the co-worker the death words all the time,too- like” why you talkin’ to her?
______ was a bigot and a racist and every bone in her body was prejudiced,too. She just didn’t like white people and she didn’t have a exclusivee education like Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
So lesson here for all- if you see Rawlings-Blake giving the death stare or voicing the death words it’s her way of asserting herself over “whitey”.
It would be nice if she smiled once in a while but then again how can one change a active & resting bitch face all at once.
Rawlings-Blake has cost the city of Balto 20million dollars due her lack of leadership in quelling those riots and the infamous line she used in her first press conference about letting rioters have their way with the city.
I sure wish Rawlings-Blake would train her resting bitch face, a face I’ve seen in my years among other black women too in a professional capactiy and it’s always a face of dissatisfaction-the world doesn’t please them, their home, neighborhood, their own husband, the neighborhood -nothing is good enough for them and to think there are a lot of black women who buy into this philosophy -the moore they pout & express dissatisfaction with everything they think by doing this things will change and it is simply not true.
For sure=if Rawlings-Blake is not making above 300,000$ per year it’s “whitey’s” fault.
The previous mayor was booted out of office for stealing gift cards meant for charity. Despite her shameful and petty criminal acts, the city saw fit to let her keep her mayoral pension.
There.
Fixed it!
I made well over $300 for several years, but not in government, in sales. Most I ever made in government was about $45,000.
Your description of the typical black woman is exactly why avoid them when possible!
Baltiless, MD
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