I'm depressed that you and Drew are buying into this media narrative. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
It sorta comes with the territory of a de facto one-party state. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
If it's not clear by now, I don't think people are always clearly the victims just because they are lefties. I'm probably a good deal more lefty than her. I'm a bloody communist. A person can be a lefty, and even a victim of bad press, and still be nuts. Did the cop ask for her id because he was racist? I have no idea. Was punching him the best response? Is it ever a good response? If Denis Kucinich punched someone, would we think that's acceptable because he is a white man? I wouldn't. Am I buying into FOX news? I don't even watch FOX news. I hope that if I have illustrated anything during my time here, it is that while I may from time to time be totally wrong or raving mad, I am perfectly capable of thinking for myself. Media narrative? Me? Seriously? "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
And this is true not just in standing up for your political rights; for instance, hockey. (You should go to a Blackhawks game - I understand tickets are quite easy to come by.)
And the Democratic alternative to that punch, which we've been seeing on parade these past few, doesn't even begin to compare... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
There's no way she did either one -- she absolutely would've been charged. Cops do not drop charges when one of their own has been touched in any sort of aggressive way, even if the case seems unwinable. The very fact that they eventually dropped it is evidence enough that nothing happened other than what she and the witnesses said -- he grabbed her arm from behind and she shook him off. Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
so mckinney is grabbed from behind by a cop who claims he didn't know who she was. this in itself is grounds for the guy getting transferred. mckinney swings her arm back in responser to being suddenly grabbed from behind, and the cop goes to the cable TV shows about being "punched."
bloggers left and right alike parrot this talking point with no end of racial under- and overtones, and the talking point becomes media truth. except that when the capitol police do a review about the thing, all charges are dropped and the officer is found to have been in the wrong.
so the whole thing we're tlaking about is nothing more than a whisper job to cover up for chronic racist and sexist behavior against a member of congress (who, coincidentally, had been holding hearings on racism in the capitol police ranks against black officers in the force).
But, as I said, redstar makes a fair point about the war that I'll consider should Her Majesty sell us out (as I fear she may well do). If ending the war is off the table, then forget it. The only issue I'd have to vote on is the Supreme Court, so why bother? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
