The world doesn’t conform to the left’s prejudiced expectations
This weekend, conservative bloggers were quick to report the news of violent protests in Santa Cruz, California, filling in where the MSM was silent:
A group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker’s and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Windows were left shattered and graffiti including anarchy signs were tagged onto buildings. The Rittenhouse Building, Urban Outfitters, Jamba Juice and Velvet Underground all had windows broken, according to Capt. Steve Clark.
The “state-run media,” Jim Hoft observed, “has been hush-hush about this violent attack.” Noel Sheppard found that those who did cover it downplayed the violence: “Despite the violence, the reporter for ABC-TV affiliate KGO used an offshoot of ‘mostly peaceful’ to describe the festivities“. When “CNN tweeted an unofficial video with a disclaimer – don’t blame the protesters” Dan Riehl quipped, “Pity they didn’t go to such lengths to defend the Tea Party protests.”
Guess when it comes to left-wing protests, media folk expect them to be peaceful, so they report their expectations, not the reality.
They really political violence to conform to their expectations as Ed Morrissey observes:
Contessa Brewer tells Stephanie Miller that she’s really unhappy that she couldn’t use the Times Square bombing attempt to prove Tea Party “bigotry.” Never mind that this clip shows the bigotry of Brewer in relation to conservatives — that all of the opponents of Barack Obama and the Democrats are somehow the equivalent of the Hutaree militia in Michigan. Brewer really wanted a way to smear conservatives, and now she’ll just have to wait a little longer
This gal didn’t want the terrorist suspect in New York to have “ies to any kind of Islamic country” because she wants the threat to be elsewhere. Just as her media colleagues want the violent protests to be on the right.
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(Mayor) Bloomberg (Idiot-NY) later told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone.
“If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything,” he said.
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Comment by SoCalRobert — May 4, 2010 @ 6:34 pm - May 4, 2010
tea party bigotry . . . Last Thursday, at a Tea Party speaking event in Tennessee, the Republican congressional candidate Ron Kirkland spoke about President Obama’s stance on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Kirkland, a Vietnam veteran, described his time in the military thusly: “I can tell you if there were any homosexuals in that group, they were taken care of in ways I can’t describe to you.”
Comment by rusty — May 4, 2010 @ 7:00 pm - May 4, 2010
Rusty,
I read that linked from another post. Any idea of how the crowd reacted? I mean I don’t doubt such things happened in the military in the past, but I’m curious about the present crowd’s reactions.
DADT is one of the things that divide both parties, the right at least admits it.
Comment by The_Livewire — May 4, 2010 @ 7:52 pm - May 4, 2010
Rusty, you are s-o-o-o underwhelming.
A lot of the guys in Viet Nam were not all excited about being drafted and sent there. They were not real thrilled with the rules of engagement or, more to the point, disengagement as decided by the policy wonks in the Pentagon.
Now, dear Rusty, imagine a grunt, lying in his own pool of sweat, wondering if the perfectly capped Coke in his hand was full of Cong “vitamins.” He is thinking of “fragging” the first lieutenant fresh in from West Point who is all revved up on the latest protocols. But, a hungry gay guy decides to come on to him and ………..
Rusty, the army in Viet Nam was not educated in diversity and political correctness. They came home and adapted as best they could. Some became anti-war liberal wimps. Some lost it. Some have sat on their emotions and bottled it up. Some still feel that if a gay guy messes with him, the gay guy will have not walk away from it.
So, my question to you is: What is your point?
Are you suggesting that Kirkland is a homophobic bigot? Two men in a foxhole facing Hell are not straight or gay. If a “gay” comes into the equation, it is because the gay guy brought the subject up.
I support DA/DT because it clearly informs everyone to take their sexual lives elsewhere. The military mission is not improved by homosexual acts. I will totally grant that qualified homosexuals are fully important to the military mission. I see no reason for affirmative action for homosexuals to bring the military into line with the assumed ratios.
Let us stipulate that Kirkland was opposing doing away with DA/DT. Are you willing to stipulate that gays want to be a part of the military mission without having immediate access to a happy, homosexual hunting ground?
Comment by heliotrope — May 4, 2010 @ 7:56 pm - May 4, 2010
Besides, Kirkland is actually a pro-gay candidate. He supports standing up to backwards, homophobic regimes, rather than coddling them like Obama does.
Comment by NYAlly — May 4, 2010 @ 8:17 pm - May 4, 2010
Rusty, you are s-o-o-o underwhelming.
This might be my favorite comment in quite a while. High-larious!
Comment by Bruce (GayPatriot) — May 4, 2010 @ 9:12 pm - May 4, 2010
Contessa Brewer = idiot = mumpsimus
Comment by Leslie — May 4, 2010 @ 9:16 pm - May 4, 2010
I guess posting comments here is the only way rusty ever gets anyone to pay any attention to his lame opinions. Sad, really.
Comment by V the K — May 4, 2010 @ 9:41 pm - May 4, 2010
Say Rusty, any bets on who sent white powder to Gov. Brewer’s office today?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — May 4, 2010 @ 11:33 pm - May 4, 2010
I spent 4 years in the Service during WW2. Of course we had gays with us but nojne of them would think about having a sex orgy in a barrack with 25 other men. If they should try it, Kirkland is right. But what we did “off base” was our own business. But I assure you we acted as gentlemen there too. Not as if we were at Folsum Street Faire.
Comment by John Waggy — May 5, 2010 @ 1:35 am - May 5, 2010
Thank you, John,
Both for your service and your perspective.
Comment by The_Livewire — May 5, 2010 @ 6:46 am - May 5, 2010
If tea party groups are to maximize their influence on policy, they must now begin the difficult task of disassociating themselves from cranks and conspiracy nuts. This includes 9/11 deniers, “birthers” who insist Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and militia supporters espousing something vaguely close to armed rebellion. Karl Rove WSJ 2/17/10
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2010 @ 8:09 am - May 5, 2010
11th September 2009
Gordon Brown last night issued a posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the ‘appalling’ way he was punished for being gay.
Mr Turing worked at top secret Bletchley Park during the war and helped create the device that deciphered messages encoded by Nazi Enigma machines. Cracking the codes helped save Britain from German conquest.
After the war, he did ground-breaking work on early computer technology and is often referred to as the father of modern computer science.
But in 1952 he was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man.
He was chemically castrated as an experimental ‘treatment’ and stripped of his security clearance, meaning he could not continue work for the Government Communications Headquarters. Two years later he killed himself, aged 41, by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
At the height of the Cold War gay people were perceived as a threat by authorities because of the defection to the Soviet Union by diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who were both homosexual.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212703/Gordon-Brown-apologises-gay-WW2-code-breaker-Alan-Turing-appalling-persecution.html#ixzz0n3YwyuZA
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2010 @ 8:13 am - May 5, 2010
“I have a message to our government, to President Obama, to our nation! I fought for your freedoms! I am in Iraq now! I am currently fighting for your freedoms and if you can not give me the decency of honesty, of my integrity, my dignity, then I am done serving you. I will not be subjected to cruel acts of religious morality checking. That is not for the government nor my leaders to decide. I am an American soldier, not a terrorist! A soldier, what they call a hero. I give my blood and sweat to this country just as much as some of you and more than most of you! Change this for me.”
Read more: http://www.queerty.com/blogging-a-dont-ask-dont-tell-dismissal-in-real-time-just-a-joe-just-came-out-and-is-now-just-a-criminal-20100331/#ixzz0n3ZvaT70
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2010 @ 8:18 am - May 5, 2010
Rusty,
Beating, bashing and killing gays for fun and sport is reprehensible.
What is your point? If you are going to try to pit the cruelty to slaves against the trouble that gays have seen, you have a lousy chance in taking the oscar for victimization.
Why don’t you drag your sorry nose in the past horror stories to some leftist pity party where there is all tears and no action. Meanwhile, if you have some current abomination of interpersonal relationships to report, let us know right away.
Comment by heliotrope — May 5, 2010 @ 8:21 am - May 5, 2010
Tell it to CAIR.
Comment by heliotrope — May 5, 2010 @ 8:23 am - May 5, 2010
May 3, 2010
President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
After the recent letter by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommended the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” be delayed, this is my plea to you on the behalf of the soldiers serving in silence to end this law now:
I never wanted anything more in my life than to be a career officer. My entire childhood I was exposed to abuse, violence, and crime. I came out of it all with a simple, yet overwhelming desire to serve. When my first attempt at getting into the Naval Academy failed, I waited restlessly until I turned eighteen. I enlisted on my birthday and set off to prove myself to the Academy. I was eager to leave the cruelty of my past and join a true family.
I knew I was gay, but it was irrelevant to me then. I was determined to join an elite team of handlers working with dogs trained to detect explosives. As I studied hard to pass exams and complete training, I was convinced that the current law would protect me. I knew that based on merit and achievement I would excel in the military.
I never told anyone I was gay. But a year and a half later while serving in the Middle East, I was tormented by my chief and fellow sailors, physically and emotionally, as they had their suspicions. The irony of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is that it protects bigots and punishes gays who comply.
Shop talk in the unit revolved around sex, either the prostitute-filled parties of days past or the escapades my comrades looked forward to. They interpreted my silence and total lack of interest as an admission of homosexuality. My higher-ups seemed to think that gave them the right to bind me to chairs, ridicule me, hose me down and lock me in a feces-filled dog kennel.
On one day in the Middle East, I was ordered by a superior to get down on my hands and knees and simulate oral sex on a person working in the kennel. We were supposed to pretend that we were in our bedroom and that the dogs were catching us in the act. Over and over, with each of the dogs in our unit, I was forced to endure this scenario.
I told no one about what I was living through. I feared that reporting the abuse would lead to an investigation into my sexuality. Frankly, as we continue to delay the repeal of this horrible law, I can’t help but wonder how many people find themselves in similar, despicable situations and remain silent. My anger today doesn’t come from the abuse, but rather from the inhumanity of a standing law that allowed for it.
Three and a half years later when the Navy started investigating claims of hazing, I had finally earned my place at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. But instead of celebration, I began to question the life of persecution, degradation, and dishonor DADT had forced on me. I questioned the institution — our great military — that would condone and endorse this kind of treatment of its own members. The only thing I had ever done wrong was to want the same thing my straight counterparts wanted: a brotherhood and something to stand for.
At NAPS I realized that a career of service under DADT would be a forfeiture of my basic human rights. It would be a forfeiture of basic job security, peace of mind, and meaningful relationships, particularly with my fellow straight service members whom I was forced to deceive and betray.
After completing a six-week officer candidate boot camp, my commanders said they wanted to offer me a leadership role. But after what happened in the Middle East and even the suicide of my close friend, I was mentally and emotionally depleted. And so — with my knees buckling — I offered my statement of resignation in writing:
“I am a homosexual. I deeply regret that my personal feelings are not compatible with Naval regulations or policy. I am proud of my service and had hoped I would be able to serve the Navy and the country for my entire career. However, the principles of honor, courage and commitment mean I must be honest with myself, courageous in my beliefs, and committed in my action. I understand that this statement will be used to end my Naval career.”
They say some people are just born designed for military service. It‘s the way we are wired, and the only thing that makes us happy. For too many of us, it‘s the only family we ever had. I am sure now, more than ever, after all the loss and hardship under DADT, that all I want to do is serve as a career military officer.
Mr. President, any delay in repeal is a clear signal to our troops that their gay brothers and sisters in arms are not equal to them. I plead that you take the lead — fight for repeal — and allow qualified men and women to serve their country.
Very respectfully,
Joseph Christopher Rocha
Former Petty Officer Third Class, U.S. Navy
Comment by rusty — May 5, 2010 @ 8:53 am - May 5, 2010
rusty…
Desipte being off topic, I’ll humour you.
“I told no one about what I was living through. I feared that reporting the abuse would lead to an investigation into my sexuality…”
So he was afraid the Army would ask, and he didn’t take advantage of the JAG to report these people? So he didn’t do his job as a soldier and report the abuse up the chain of command?
All this means is that he didn’t defend himself from some twisted SOBs. And that’s assuming his accounts are true.
Comment by The_Livewire — May 5, 2010 @ 9:19 am - May 5, 2010
What Livewire said. You guys saved the world.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — May 5, 2010 @ 12:39 pm - May 5, 2010