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2009-07-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Smoking Gun: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Police Report

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Posted by ed 2009-07-24 01:21|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 Mr. Gates was correct, I too "don't know who he is." I do however, know WHAT he is!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-24 06:08|| 2009-07-24 06:08|| Front Page Top

#2 He's got a really bad attitude problem.

The police turn up at your house because they thik theirs someone breaking in? It's brave to do that.

Normal people would say thanks and laugh.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-24 06:42|| 2009-07-24 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 one thing is for certain -

the media is going to do to this cop what they did to joe the plumber: dig through his background all the way back to the womb in an attempt to uncover some dirt on him.

Posted by Beavis 2009-07-24 07:35|| 2009-07-24 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 One place you won't find the police report anymore - The Boston Globe's website (pulled sometime after posting it yesterday).

Posted by Raj 2009-07-24 08:03|| 2009-07-24 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 One place you won't find the police report anymore - The Boston Globe's website (pulled sometime after posting it yesterday).

Posted by Raj 2009-07-24 08:03|| 2009-07-24 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 One place you won't find the police report anymore - The ~~Boston Globe's~~ Ministry of Truth website.

Fixed it for you. Guess Winston Smith showed back up for work.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-24 08:31|| 2009-07-24 08:31|| Front Page Top

#7 But I'm guessing Officer Crowley's arrest record, dental records, overdue library records, internet history will be splashed across Page 1 momentarily.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-07-24 09:14|| 2009-07-24 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 ...except for the fact that Officer Crowley was the EMT on the scene trying to revive Reggie Lewis of the Celtics when he keeled over with a heart attack. THAT won't get much play at all.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-07-24 09:42|| 2009-07-24 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Unfortunately, it already has, AlanC. I've read there were claims that Officer Crowley didn't try hard enough because Lewis was black.

I'd give you my opinion of the clowns claiming that, but I don't know enough curse words....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-24 10:01|| 2009-07-24 10:01|| Front Page Top

#10 M-O-R-O-N.

Posted by Art 2009-07-24 10:25|| 2009-07-24 10:25|| Front Page Top

#11 The officer in question is a teacher that helps police prevent profiling. Or so I read elsewhere. I also read that the officer's microphone was "open" the whole time and there is a recording of the situation. This supposedly makes Mr Gates even worse off as he is alleged to become hysterical and profane.

Posted by Lagom 2009-07-24 10:29|| 2009-07-24 10:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Not only does the good professor teach racism, he is one. (Sorry for the bad takeoff on The Hair Club For Men).

Posted by ed 2009-07-24 10:47|| 2009-07-24 10:47|| Front Page Top

#13 There's been a full court media press against the officer from the very beginning. All his news photos show him in a disparaging light, while Gates & Obama's "stupid" comments are getting the patented Teflon treatment. I hope a full audio recording of the encounter will hit the internet soon.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-24 10:54|| 2009-07-24 10:54|| Front Page Top

#14 from the wikipedia entry on Prof Gates

"...As a literary theorist and critic, meanwhile, Gates has combined literary techniques of deconstruction with native African literary traditions; he draws on structuralism, post-structuralism, and semiotics to textual analysis and matters of identity politics. As a black intellectual and public figure, Gates has been an outspoken critic of the Eurocentric literary canon and has instead insisted that black literature must be evaluated by the aesthetic criteria of its culture of origin, not criteria imported from Western or European cultural traditions that express a "tone deafness to the black cultural voice" and result in "intellectual racism."[3] Gates tried to articulate what might constitute a black cultural aesthetic in his major scholarly work The Signifying Monkey, a 1989 American Book Award winner; the work extended the application of the concept of "signifyin(g)" to analysis of African-American works and thus rooted African-American literary criticism in the African-American vernacular tradition."

they could have said, "Gates is a BS artist who has earned big bucks and prestige in pretentious nonsense, taking advantage of cultism devotion to having a black presense in a non rigorous academic area"

Posted by Lord garth 2009-07-24 11:00|| 2009-07-24 11:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey Boston burglars! You will be perfectly safe hitting this guys house. It's a gun-free zone and I am sure the Cambridge cops will have a lot of trouble locating the address.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-24 11:18|| 2009-07-24 11:18|| Front Page Top

#16 It's looking more and more like Sergeant Crowly has ample tapes and eyewitnesses to back up his version. Professor Gates may not be able to destroy him.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-07-24 12:39|| 2009-07-24 12:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Wonder what it would take to get the tapes released? Can they be FOIA'd?

~~Heh-heh-heh~~

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-24 12:42|| 2009-07-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#18 Hey Boston burglars! You will be perfectly safe hitting this guys house. It's a gun-free zone and I am sure the Cambridge cops will have a lot of trouble locating the address.

Particularly if you are a 'person-of-color'. They aren't allowed to even question you then!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-24 14:00|| 2009-07-24 14:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Rush just made a point I've been thinking all day: Obama did this on purpose TO DISTRACT EVERYONE from the Obamacare issue so his team could twist arms in private. "Post-racial President", my a*s.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-07-24 14:20|| 2009-07-24 14:20|| Front Page Top

#20 I would so love to hear any tapes of the incident. But the major (another racist) and president Zero probably had them destroyed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-24 14:29|| 2009-07-24 14:29|| Front Page Top

#21 Here's a little more interesting reading:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s bio page at Harvard University. But wait. There's more...

...a quick scan of his Harvard bio pages reveals that he is editor-in-chief of the daily online magazine TheRoot.com.

Have fun.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-24 14:32|| 2009-07-24 14:32|| Front Page Top

#22 P.O. created a real crises of character, but not to let a crises go to waste this will be the focus to smokescreen the administration's two major setbacks, setup a sub(see implied)-narrative they didn't pass b/c of racism.

Again he chooses the wrong side. Some would say he picked the side of a fellow traveler once again. Or, as my wife giggled, "Maybe its just his white guilt surfacing".

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-07-24 14:39|| 2009-07-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#23 I like the way the press consistently refers to him as a "respected scholar" -- in tones similar to how the describe the Reverend Shartpon/Jackson/Wright. Too bad most people see these descripitions as code for race hustler.

Posted by regular joe 2009-07-24 15:38|| 2009-07-24 15:38|| Front Page Top

#24 Rush said the same thing I said to a friend this morning - this is all a front to get the public conversation off the healthcare debacle.

Sidenote - The office of the presidency getting involved in a minor arrest incident is telling in it of itself. Just like when wonder boy went after Limbaugh - a private citizen.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-07-24 16:07|| 2009-07-24 16:07|| Front Page Top

#25 I nominate swksvolFF's wife for snark of the day.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-24 16:15|| 2009-07-24 16:15|| Front Page Top

#26 ION HINDUSTAN TIMES > MICHAEL JACKSON NAMED HIS DAUGHTER AFTER ME, SAYS ['Cuzin]PARIS HILTON
[Mom KATHY + MJ were good childhood friends].

True enuff, but as per 9-11 + WOT personally my focii is on DEB ROWE + CO.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-07-24 20:08|| NA]">[NA] 2009-07-24 20:08|| Front Page Top

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