You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the thesis of my latest book Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America than the black president of the United States attacking a powerless white cop for arresting a black Harvard professor -- in a city with a black mayor and a state with a black governor -- as the professor vacations in Marthas Vineyard.
In modern America the alleged victim is always really the aggressor and the alleged aggressor is always the true victim.
President Barack Obama planted the question during a health care press conference hoping he could satisfy the Chicago Sun-Times which has been accusing him of not being black enough. He somehow imagined that the rest of the country might not notice the president of the United States gratuitously attacking a cop in a case of alleged racial profiling.
Oops.
Suddenly with the glare of the national spotlight being turned on a small local story it became clear that there was no racial profiling involved -- other than by the black Harvard professor who lorded his credentials and connections over a white working-class cop.
We wouldnt have known about this case at all if the professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. hadnt blast e-mailed the universe that he was harassed by racist cops. Gates thought it would be a feather in his cap not realizing there are huge areas of the country where people dont think its heroic to browbeat cops checking on you after you break into your own house such as 99 percent of the country outside of Cambridge.
Contrary to liberals ardent desire Sgt. James Crowley was not on tape saying I know its his house but lets stick it to this uppity negro. (Curiously the tape of Gates call demanding to talk to the chief of police to report Crowley has been withheld. Some watchdog group has got to demand that tape.)
But what if Crowley hadnt been a model policeman who taught diversity classes and once famously gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a black athlete?
What if the 911 caller had identified the suspected burglars as black which it turns out she did not?
What if Crowley hadnt been fully supported by other cops at the scene one Hispanic and one black? (Liberals will say cops stick together but I say liberals stick together.)
What if at some point in his life Crowley had been accused -- falsely or not -- of racism?
His life would be ruined.
Desperate to blame the cop despite the facts some liberals have begun making up their own facts. Radio talker Opio Sokoni claimed Crowley told Gates to shut up and Im going to win youre going to jail. Even Gates doesnt claim the cop said that.
On MSNBCs Hardball Chris Matthews said that Gates did not say Ill speak with your mama outside as stated in the police report.
He didnt say this Matthews asserted as fact. This invented fact allowed Matthews to accuse the cop of engaging in projection and to conjure Crowleys psychological state saying this is what a white guy thought a black guy would say.
Eugene Robinson endorsed Matthews invented fact saying: I cannot imagine in this universe Skip Gates saying Ill speak with your mama outside. As proof Robinson explained that Gates rolls with kings and queens and Nobel Prize winners. (Im not projecting what I think a black man would say; he really said that.)
And then they both had a laugh about the cop applying racist stereotypes to such an esteemed figure as Professor Gates who apparently would NEVER use the phrase your mama.
First unlike these aesthetes I dont consider your mama such an implausible expression for someone to use.
Second Sgt. Crowley wrote his police report including the your mama line long before he or anyone else could have imagined the arrest was going to become nationwide front-page news.
Third theres a video of Gates using the N-word all over the Internet and in that short three-minute video Gates uses the phrase your mama.
The only contrary evidence is that Gates recently denied that he told the cop hed speak with your mama outside. He also desperately wants to drop the subject.
The lefts last-ditch attempt to defend a powerful black mans attack on a powerless white man is to say the arrest was improper. In Time magazine Lawrence ODonnell factually announced Yelling does not meet the definition of disorderly conduct in Massachusetts.
You can argue the facts in court but theres 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.
As everyone whos read the police report knows Gates is described as going on an extended tirade against the officer calling him a racist saying the officer didnt know who he was messing with acting irrationally following the officer outside to continue haranguing him and engaging in tumultuous behavior in and outside his house drawing a small crowd of alarmed onlookers and police.
Suppose a cop didnt arrest a guy who was ranting and raving -- in his own home -- and an hour later the hothead assaults someone. Policeman: I was as surprised as anyone that he shot his girlfriend! Every liberal in the country would demand the cops head.
And by the way try screaming at a judge that hes a racist and see what happens. Why should police officers deserve less protection than judges? Theyre in more danger.
The disorderly conduct charge was not dropped because it wasnt a good arrest. It was dropped according to Gates own lawyer because of Gates connections.
Before liberals declare that this a case of racial profiling and move on how about liberals produce one provable example of racial profiling that isnt a hoax?
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of the thesis of my latest book Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America than the black president of the United States attacking a powerless white cop for arresting a black Harvard professor -- in a city with a black mayor and a state with a black governor -- as the professor vacations in Marthas Vineyard.
In modern America the alleged victim is always really the aggressor and the alleged aggressor is always the true victim.
President Barack Obama planted the question during a health care press conference hoping he could satisfy the Chicago Sun-Times which has been accusing him of not being black enough. He somehow imagined that the rest of the country might not notice the president of the United States gratuitously attacking a cop in a case of alleged racial profiling.
Oops.
Suddenly with the glare of the national spotlight being turned on a small local story it became clear that there was no racial profiling involved -- other than by the black Harvard professor who lorded his credentials and connections over a white working-class cop.
We wouldnt have known about this case at all if the professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. hadnt blast e-mailed the universe that he was harassed by racist cops. Gates thought it would be a feather in his cap not realizing there are huge areas of the country where people dont think its heroic to browbeat cops checking on you after you break into your own house such as 99 percent of the country outside of Cambridge.
Contrary to liberals ardent desire Sgt. James Crowley was not on tape saying I know its his house but lets stick it to this uppity negro. (Curiously the tape of Gates call demanding to talk to the chief of police to report Crowley has been withheld. Some watchdog group has got to demand that tape.)
But what if Crowley hadnt been a model policeman who taught diversity classes and once famously gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a black athlete?
What if the 911 caller had identified the suspected burglars as black which it turns out she did not?
What if Crowley hadnt been fully supported by other cops at the scene one Hispanic and one black? (Liberals will say cops stick together but I say liberals stick together.)
What if at some point in his life Crowley had been accused -- falsely or not -- of racism?
His life would be ruined.
Desperate to blame the cop despite the facts some liberals have begun making up their own facts. Radio talker Opio Sokoni claimed Crowley told Gates to shut up and Im going to win youre going to jail. Even Gates doesnt claim the cop said that.
On MSNBCs Hardball Chris Matthews said that Gates did not say Ill speak with your mama outside as stated in the police report.
He didnt say this Matthews asserted as fact. This invented fact allowed Matthews to accuse the cop of engaging in projection and to conjure Crowleys psychological state saying this is what a white guy thought a black guy would say.
Eugene Robinson endorsed Matthews invented fact saying: I cannot imagine in this universe Skip Gates saying Ill speak with your mama outside. As proof Robinson explained that Gates rolls with kings and queens and Nobel Prize winners. (Im not projecting what I think a black man would say; he really said that.)
And then they both had a laugh about the cop applying racist stereotypes to such an esteemed figure as Professor Gates who apparently would NEVER use the phrase your mama.
First unlike these aesthetes I dont consider your mama such an implausible expression for someone to use.
Second Sgt. Crowley wrote his police report including the your mama line long before he or anyone else could have imagined the arrest was going to become nationwide front-page news.
Third theres a video of Gates using the N-word all over the Internet and in that short three-minute video Gates uses the phrase your mama.
The only contrary evidence is that Gates recently denied that he told the cop hed speak with your mama outside. He also desperately wants to drop the subject.
The lefts last-ditch attempt to defend a powerful black mans attack on a powerless white man is to say the arrest was improper. In Time magazine Lawrence ODonnell factually announced Yelling does not meet the definition of disorderly conduct in Massachusetts.
You can argue the facts in court but theres 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.
As everyone whos read the police report knows Gates is described as going on an extended tirade against the officer calling him a racist saying the officer didnt know who he was messing with acting irrationally following the officer outside to continue haranguing him and engaging in tumultuous behavior in and outside his house drawing a small crowd of alarmed onlookers and police.
Suppose a cop didnt arrest a guy who was ranting and raving -- in his own home -- and an hour later the hothead assaults someone. Policeman: I was as surprised as anyone that he shot his girlfriend! Every liberal in the country would demand the cops head.
And by the way try screaming at a judge that hes a racist and see what happens. Why should police officers deserve less protection than judges? Theyre in more danger.
The disorderly conduct charge was not dropped because it wasnt a good arrest. It was dropped according to Gates own lawyer because of Gates connections.
Before liberals declare that this a case of racial profiling and move on how about liberals produce one provable example of racial profiling that isnt a hoax?
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
