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This weekend's promotion of the legend of Rev. Martin Luther King offers a reminder that the liberal media can blatantly state that it is their job to "print the legend," and not report on a historic figure's flaws. In the fall of 1989, King's longtime lieutenant Ralph Abernathy wrote a book titled "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down." Abernathy told the tale that Rev. King committed adultery with two women on the night before he was murdered. Bryant Gumbel, then a co-host of NBC's Today, lectured: "When the truth collides with a legend, print the legend." Our November 1989 newsletter...

If you follow the logic of Al Sharpton, black people must live in crime-free neighborhoods. I know that news is shocking, given the statistics that prove otherwise. We are told that black communities have the highest crime rates, but that these stats are demagogued to make black people look bad.

Is President Obama correct that police "acted stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr.? Yes 33% 32794 No 43% 43085 Too little info to say 24% 24161 Total Votes: 100040

The white police sergeant who arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Thursday President Barack Obama was "way off base" claiming Cambridge officers acted "stupidly" during the incident. Read: White House Clarifies Obama's Remark Sgt. James Crowley, who is a police academy expert on racial profiling, responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism. Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday, and Gates has since demanded an apology...

Is there still racism in America? If you really look for it, you will find it. But in most of America--even its darkest corners--racism is frowned upon . . .unless it is anti-White racism, which tends to get a free pass. (A man who publicly talked about the "typical White person" is now not only President, but our national prognosticator on race.) Unfortunately, however, many times--far too many times--in today's America what is not racism is easily, quickly transformed into it by people with an agenda, and a shoulder chip of equal gargantuan size. An in that vein, I'm getting...

The President of the United States told its citizens that its OK to resist law enforcement. The President of the United States, on primetime television, gave its citizens a free pass not to cooperate with law enforcement officers. The President of the United States stated that a disproportionate number of minorities "are arrested" implying that they are arrested for no other reason except for being a minority. Did I hear that right?

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted "stupidly" in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest. "This still haunts us," Obama said. Obama called Gates a friend, and said he doesn't know all the facts of the case. Nonetheless, Obama said, anyone would have been angry if treated the way Gates claims police in Cambridge, Mass., treated him. Gates, a Harvard University professor, claims he was arrested in his home after showing ID to police who responded to a...

Excerpts from police report. Full document at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/Police%20report%20on%20Gates%20arrest.PDF If I were the officer, I wouldn't be apologizing either.

This was originally from the Telegraph.co.uk but the PDF file was omitted or purged. It was then posted by member GQuagmire here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298940/posts http://www.amnation.com/vfr/Police%20report%20on%20Gates%20arrest.PDF

President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man's home. "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played," Obama said Wednesday night while taking questions after a White House news conference. Cambridge authorities dropped disorderly conduct charges against Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Tuesday. Obama defended Gates on Wednesday night, while admitting that he may be "a little biased," because Gates is a friend.

In keeping with the myth-making propensities of the Obama campaign, former Pennsylvania Sen. Harris Wofford made an overwrought introduction of the candidate to the audience, claiming that Sen. Obama was already cast in the same mold of unique greatness as Washington and Lincoln. Putting aside such improbable silliness, Obama was in front of the cameras during his campaign swing in Philadelphia for damage control from the negative media coverage of his long-time pastor and “spiritual mentor,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright. For over a week, this bitter, clown holy man, was shown hectoring and working his flock into a lather on church-produced...