Posted on 07/28/2009 2:58:31 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Via Mediaite, something to start the conversational ball rolling at that not-all-awkward White House drink-up on Thursday.
Mediaite has obtained a transcript from former Sec. of State Colin Powell’s interview on CNN’s Larry King Live tonight, in which Powell comments on the Professor Gates story, as well as Sarah Palin and more…
“I would say, the first teaching point is when you’re faced with an officer trying to do his job and get to the bottom of something. This is not the time to get in an argument with him. I was taught that as a child. You don’t argue with a police officer. In fact, in our schools today, in order to make sure that we don’t have things escalate out of control and lead to very unfortunate situations, we tell our kids, when you’re being asked something by a police officer, being detained by a police officer, cooperate. If you don’t like what happened, or if you think that you have been exposed to something that’s racist or prejudicial or something that’s wrong, then you make a complaint afterwards and you sue him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Do you know what you call a police officer in Oklahoma?............
“Sir”
But that's a whole other story.
Powell, quit trying to sound like you’re not a flaming liberal, now STFU.
Ouch. I don’t think Gate’s arrest was right. He was a jerk sure, but I don’t think he did anything besides make a fool of himself.
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