Justifiable Anger and Racist Police Actions Duly Explained by the NYT

We are always excited to study and digest the frenetic political theorizing that is proffered as thinking at the New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers. [1] When any economic or political event transpires, particularly one that can be deftly sculpted to showcase the ever-present racism by the mostly white police, the propaganda machines hum so that the public might be reeducated. Bob Herbert[2][3], whose articles rarely offer any new information and are mostly ignored by this blogger, since they tend to be mechanical and pedestrian in mentality, springs forth as if he has now had some advanced instruction in the proper use of propaganda and wants to show off.  He graduated today! In today’s article in the soon-t0-be-bankrupt Times Herbert reshuffles his authorized stack of soiled clichés and breaks new [to him] journalistic ground as he ‘teaches’ us all about the ‘attitudes’ of the Cambridge police and the civil rights incidents that have rocked the nation.

Herbert begins:

“If Professor Gates ranted and raved at the cop who entered his home uninvited with a badge, a gun and an attitude, he didn’t rant and rave for long.”[4]--Anger Has Its Place By Bob Herbert Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

If pigs could fly…………. Notice that Herbert finds some ‘attitude’ problem on the part of the police that is not documented in the police report or given by witnesses. This crass assumption is essential to building his ‘case’ that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was clearly innocent with the underlying assumption that he was justified at howling at the police. Perhaps, we might muse, because the cop was white? Well, let us read further.

“The charge: angry while black.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Another academic opinion should have been used by Herbert to amplify his premise:

“All white people are racists.“[5]-University of Delaware.

Actually the charge was disorderly conduct and is defined this way in that state:

“You can argue the facts in court, but there's no question that the police report described the misdemeanor offense of "disorderly conduct" under Massachusetts law, which includes engaging in "tumultuous behavior" in "any neighborhood," thereby causing public "inconvenience, annoyance or alarm."[6]— How About A National Conversation On Race Hoaxes? By Ann Coulter July 29, 2009

Herbert ignores all this and ignores the police report and the facts by creating a mythical political world where truth is unnecessary and racial politics are steered into a ‘blacks are innocent’ motif by any convenient means.

President Obama is challenged:

“The president of the United States has suggested that we use this flare-up as a “teachable moment,” but so far exactly the wrong lessons are being drawn from it — especially for black people. The message that has gone out to the public is that powerful African-American leaders like Mr. Gates and President Obama will be very publicly slapped down for speaking up and speaking out about police misbehavior, and that the proper response if you think you are being unfairly targeted by the police because of your race is to chill.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Herbert magically conjures up these demons from the abyss with exactly no facts, but facts are not necessary in a political screed where chum is constantly chucked to the loyals to preserve the Democratic party and their essential black votes. Herbert announces that there is nothing to learn from this  “teachable moment.” Perhaps Herbert is unteachable.

“Mr. Gates is a friend, and I was selected some months ago to receive an award from an institute that he runs at Harvard. I made no attempt to speak to him while researching this column.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Can any reader find Herbert’s research findings in any of this?? I cannot.

“Professor Gates did absolutely nothing wrong. He did not swear at the officer or threaten him. He was never a danger to anyone. At worst, if you believe the police report, he yelled at Sergeant Crowley. He demanded to know if he was being treated the way he was being treated because he was black.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Here is the police report:[7] Professor [Do you know who I am???] Gates initially refused to show his ID to the police. That is a crime in itself. He was loud and unruly and that fits the criminal description of disorderly conduct in Cambridge and elsewhere in the civilized world.

Herbert urges:

“Black people need to roar out their anger at such treatment, lift up their voices and demand change.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Inciting to riot?? Is that a crime?

“We’re never going to have a serious national conversation about race.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

We hear about them all the time.  We read this every day in the New York Times. And Herbert is correct about the legalities of yelling at police:

"Contrary to the city’s [Houston, TX ed] contention, the First Amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police officers.  'Speech is often provocative and challenging...[But it] is nevertheless protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious, substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance or unrest." -- Houston v Hill, 482 US 451; 107 S Ct 2502; 96 L Ed 2d 398 (1987) and 482 US at 461.

Herbert rants on:

“So that leaves it up to ordinary black Americans to rant and to rave, to demonstrate and to lobby, to march and confront and to sue and generally do whatever is necessary to stop a continuing and deeply racist criminal justice outrage.”-- Bob Herbert July 31, 2009 from Cambridge, Mass.

Somehow, we don’t really see much that is new here. Apparently the cop committed the crime. Herbert howls about the eternal racism and sounds the old stale trumpet and signals a clarion call for action in the streets.  Why not do Watts again? The mentality of such a piece in the NYT is surprisingly not out of line with the rest of this paper’s opinion op-eds. Racism is the very bedrock of the Party of Democrats[8] and without this social element, real or imaginary, they would have little power outside the inner cities, which are filled with black-on-black crime,[9] also probably to be blamed on whites in some manner.

Perhaps a solution to Herbert’s problem from another academic he has not commented on so far in his columns:

A quote by Kamau Kambon “[blacks must]…exterminate white people off the face of the planet.” [10] [The New York Times did not comment on this guy.] This affords a ‘solution’ to the problem of sorts.  Nobody is yelling at Professor Kambon it seems.

Gates is a sour affirmative action candidate who attempts to conform to an academic setting sans the cognitive or social skills to do so. We should wonder what his SAT score was. He is a howler and not a thinker. As such he acts like strange and reveals his character and demeanor with comments like this in this video and the transcript in the footnote:[11]

Gates missed an opportunity to show how modern Democrats feel about whites and Republicans in general:

"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!" --Rahm Emanuel[12], Barack Obama's Chief of Staff[13]

It has been several decades since attempts were made to educate the wide spectrum of blacks in this country coupled with the use of emergency measures like affirmative action.[14] Sadly, very little progress has been made other than to cement the certainties of racism into a rugged and durable edifice that defies bona fide change. Given the indoctrination, the sorrowful cognitive skills[15] and other marginal attributes of those players like Gates who would speak for black Americans we can expect little in the future.  The NYT thus maintains a careful eye on the racial sty it has nutured and hopes to use this hatred to political advantage.

Maybe another 50 years of affirmative action will be necessary to elevate some of our citizens into the civil middle class outside the city projects where they can get real  jobs and earn a living on their own without so much help.

Maybe not with people like Gates and Herbert.

rycK

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Krugman Applies Protosimian Logic to Health Care. Big Government and Higher Taxes! Of Course!

Abstract: Krugman of the New York Times tautologically restrokes the eternal quest for more government and higher taxes. This pedestrian-level screed warps normal logic, as usual, and offers us the startling and unknown fact that our healthcare system works only because for our government. The usual propagandistic levers are duly pushed in the proper turn-of-the-crank sausage machine processes with the mindless but ever predictable nostrum that we need bigger government and higher taxes. Thus, this article is hopelessly redundant, mired in lies and propaganda, subservient to politicians and may safely be ignored.

The construction of propaganda pieces[1][2][3][4] and other variants of disinformation are designed to sway the reader with some guarantee of money, justice or, more appropriately: the ill-gotten money or hides of evil doers and capitalists.  Tax increases, particularly of the infective and punitive type, always appeal to the mentally unwashed and cognitively disnimble that swarm to their government for welfare, drugs and excuses for losers. Such fabrications of reality soon begin with some worthless anecdote [or a legendary frog story[5]] that rings a distant bell in the cobweb-clutter minds of those inattentive or cognitively disnimble souls who are easy targets for hokum and fluff assaults.  This type of connection then cements in their diminutive neuronal sets the present banality from the Times.  And, as usual, its success signals another round of essays on the splendor of big government and higher and higher taxes. Bacterial infections work like this.

Today, for our amusement, our esteemed non-economist from the New York Times, who is known affectionately as Dr. Paul Krugman of the Walter Duranty Papers, [6] squeezes off another propagandistic offalette[7] sanctioning the enduring confiscation of more private loot. This theme, unvarying from our wonderful Mr. Nobel Laureatte, and rising like the will-o-the-wisp from the swamps dressed as our Expert from Afar,[8] allows the good doctor to puff up some balloons and float them off into the sky for the victims to gawk at and marvel at the profundity. The cancerous topic is, or course, healthcare.

Predictably, it begins with some anecdote:

 “At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program — but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, “wasn’t having any of it.””[9]-- Health Care Realities By Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009    [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

This opening is an example of misdirection and is frequently used to state the conclusion upfront so that the tautological and gratuitous circular logical stream that follows amplifies thus sanctioning this premise. This is one of the middle-grade examples of what the NYT can operate as a slick propaganda machine.[10] They have been cleverer.

At this juncture, we must wonder where the error in logic or syntax exists in the comment. We know that our government is a failure and packed with self-serving criminals such as Senator Chrissy Dodd (D-CT) and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) who took bribes for their support of “Friends of Angelo (FOA) loans.” You might recall those are the special mortgages that former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo”[11][12][13] created for this bribers and saved our good senators a lot of money. Gee, were they on the committee that regulated or had oversight on the mortgage industry? We don’t want to be too cynical so somebody look this up and e-mail me if I am wrong.

The correct interpretation of the comment lies in a rejection of the embedded protosimian bias from our author today. The salient fact is that the government does have its infected hands upon our healthcare system and it is going broke both fiscally and intellectually. This selection of a comment from an angry taxpayer thus prompts the writer to soar into the upper reaches for ethereal responses as to why our wonderful government should not control more of our lives and take more and more of our wealth:

“It’s a funny story — but it… yadda yadda yadda[14]-- the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance.

“And that government involvement is the only reason our system works at all.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

What?????????

This preposterous comment attempts to implant the spurious notion that such things are ONLY possible with the egalitarian, guiding hand of the government pushing the levers.  Why not extend this twisted logic so as to assure us that our vaulted Social Security system-- now broke[15]--‘works’ well due to the diligence of our government. Perhaps we can praise the government for our illegal alien problems, the failure of Amtrak[16] to make a profit[17] in four decades or the successful rehabilitation of criminals? The national debt discussion is reserved for another time.

Aren’t these government programs? Why don’t they work? Does this phony leftist precept need more amplification?

“The key thing you need to know about health care is that it depends crucially on insurance.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

Here we go! More government??!! Could  we have predicted this?? Is this sausage-machine journalism?

“Yet private markets for health insurance, left to their own devices, work very badly:…yadda yadda”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

Bingo! This theme roils back like malaria.

“Today, Medicare — which is, by the way, one of those “single payer” systems conservatives love to demonize — covers everyone 65 and older. And surveys show that Medicare recipients are much more satisfied with their coverage than Americans with private insurance.”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

I have Medicare and it stinks like dog crap. The agencies I have to deal with are stuffed with slothful and cognitively-deficient protozombies[18] who shuffle paper work around and make stupid mistakes. The system does not pay doctors enough so many reject this horror. I am forced to pay into this crap barrel of twisted logic, stale theories and dysfunctional regulations. The system is broke thanks to our government. Get real. Privatize Medicare.

“So here’s the bottom line: if you currently have decent health insurance, thank the government. ”-- Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 30, 2009   

That just went over the top.  Maybe I can thank my car for working well by praising Amtrak. Maybe I can be proud of my dead bolts that protect me from criminals who were ‘rehabilitated’ by our government. I just checked my bottom and it suddenly reminds me of our government.

Krugman is a Tax Zombie. Krugman is only defiant on one issue in economics and that is his ongoing crusade against the existence of Tax-cut Zombies.[19]  He is always in favor of higher taxes. Pick a topic and Krugman will advise that we tax it.[20] Tax cuts do NOT spur growth in the economy.

Restating the current malignant tax case with some truth-base editing:”And that government involvement is the only reason our system fails at everything.”—rycK in today’s blog.

We elect criminals[21], drunks[22] and sons of drunks [like the drunken cop car crasher Patrick Kennedy[23][24],], dopers, parasites, loonies[25], perverts, EcoNazis[26], incompetents[27] and losers and they beseech soiled rags like the NYT to pulverize the facts and disseminate protosimian screeds like today’s submission from Paul Krugman to justify their sorry existence and encourage us to pay more taxes for their welfare and perverted desires.

As the dog returns to its vomit, the NYT returns to tax whoring.

rycK

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