So said Rich Lowry, on ‘Meet the Press,’ while surrounded by liberal-progressive thug-enablers.
National Review editor Rich Lowry riled up a panel of establishment media talkers Sunday by advising Americans to obey the law and exercise caution with police.
“If you look at the most credible evidence [of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a Ferguson, Mo., police officer], the lessons are really basic,” Lowry said during an appearance on Meet the Press. “Don’t rob a convenience store. Don’t fight with a policeman when he stops you and try to take his gun. And when he yells at you to stop, just stop.”
Those comments elicited gasp from a panel that included the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell exclaimed “Whoa, whoa” during Lowry’s comments, while Robinson said his recitation of the known facts in the case was an attempt to “relitigate” Brown’s death.
Gutsy move. Go you, Rich.
Look, if I punched a cop and tried to grab his gun, he would shoot me. And my friends, my family, and fellow members of my socio-economic stratum would say of me, “What a dumbass.” There would be no rioting. There would be no protests. My parents would not try to make a quick buck by selling grammatically incorrect T-shirts in my memory. There would be universal acknowledgement that I had acted stupidly and the outcome, while undesirable, was a reasonable expectation given the circumstances.
Good for Rich Lowry! Great, actually. Conservatives are going to keep losing the game of changing the culture if we don’t learn to express our ideas clearly, directly, and unapologetically. That he wasn’t willing to cede any ground on these quite obvious points to the leftists on the panel is actually a big deal, only because most of the so-called conservatives on TV are willing to score points to “seem reasonable,” and in the process, they concede key points when they should stand their ground.
Good on Lowry for saying what he said.
Boo on Lowry for being, as Kurt said, one of those “so called conservatives” who abandons conservatism when his leftist friends in the MSM turn the heat up, and he worries that he may not get invited to any more chic cocktail parties.
Some evidence: he’s the editor of National Review Online, and he was instrumental in forcing out both Mark Steyn for writing an article nearly one year ago, about the Duck Dynasty flap that (oh, shit!) had a couple of ‘gay’ themed jokes in it, and John Derbyshire, who had the temerity to write this piece back in 2012.
Lowry’s a day late and a dollar short.
The Fem-Nazi cabal on CNN launched into this bizarro theory that Ferguson was the product of “…White masculinity attempting to control Black masculinity to protect White womenfolk to preserve the Patriarchy“.
I threw-up a little in my mouth, and changed the channel….
I figure it’s even money that Lowry issues some kind of ‘clarification’ of his MTP remarks within the next 24-48 hours.
Cowards do this type of thing a lot.
tsk tsk; that isn’t a grammatically incorrect t-shirt – it is simply Ebonics!
That whole knocking off a convienient store part is important.
Our Mr. adult teenager Brown had just strong arm robbed a store and then punched a cop. Not exactly a sympathetic victim.
The media so jumped into this story and drove it over the cliff because they wanted it to be about mean, racist cop shoots innocent black kid.
The Brown family dozen’t seem to be able to spell rite and make money off the deth of their sun.
Could have been worse, they could have used a “u” instead of an “o”.
Anyone that thinks Lowry isn’t a conservative is an idiot. Editorial decisions & personal decisions against tactless articles are a private matter, not for the consumption of rubes.
It’s October 3rd, 1995 and O.J. Simpson has just been acquitted of having murdered his ex wife Nichole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, a coffee shop employee, who arrived behind her to give her her sun glasses which she left behind in the coffee shop. A black woman who was on the jury, stated that they didn’t care about the evidence, they had made up their minds to acquit O.J., for past grievences and the injustices inflicted on blacks by whites. The white community goes balistic. First they burn the coffee shop where Ron worked, then they march down to South Central screaming “Justice for Nichole and Ron.” Then several whites throw molotov cocktails into black owned businesses. Others went in and pistol whipped black owners, sacked and looted the stores, harming any employee who tried to stop them. The MSM never showed this. Why? It never happened. The Goldmans and Nicole’s family filed a wrongful death suit against O.J. and the evidence proved conclusively that O.J. was guilty. Michael Brown’s family could have announced their intention to file a civil if Oficer Wilson was not indicted before the Grand Jury’s decision. To try and maintain calm they could have advised Sharpton, “stay home.” we will file a civil suit for wrongful death. Office Wilson would have had to stand trial. Were the Browns afraid that in a civil suit it would have proven that their son was a delinquent thief?
It’s pathetic that that little shrimp, Sharpton can get away with “Justice is what I say it is.”
Jman-Derbyshire’s TALK is more important now than when he wrote it. Dr John Watson should have waited until now to mention about IQ and genetics.
Leftists only saw an edited version of the liquor store robbery a week after real news pointed out the most important parts before and after what lame stream showed. They edited out Gentle Ben knocking down the Asian clerk, waking away from him and charging back from the end not even showing him touching. From the beginning of what real news showed was the entire group of “hands up” witnesses in the liquor store with him. Dorian Johnson the skinny “hands up” had a warrant for his arrest and a big gold bracelet in the vid but not on witness cam, the bracelet was on the ground next to the cop car and also had the cops DNA on it. The Conservative Treehouse site breaks down the evidence.
Still beaming with pride that one of the mods patted you on your head, Marc?
One might think you’d be busy with your own blog, until they realize that no one reads that sh*t you post.
Steve –
I was linking to people who were also pointing out the obnoxious double standard that’s in play.
Blacks can have “the Talk” with their kids, but many, including this blogs current Keyboard Warrior (Marcia W.), get their panties in a wad when an author publishes the “white” version (“tactless articles”).
Always encouraging to see “conservatives” who head for the fainting couch and smelling salts when they read WORDS that offend their tender sensibilities.
No wonder leftists have been so successful in this country for the last 100 years; we have too many cowards on “our” side.
That’s especially noxious, because the facts are the most important part! Or should be!
Apparently, if leftists believe something totally stupid wrong and false, and if you then cite some facts to try to gently guide them back toward reality…you’re the bad guy.
🙂 I love people. Guess I’m a people person! I don’t even mind those that can’t express a valid opinion without vomiting all over themselves.
Not quite.
You hate cops and Christians.
So much for your self awareness.
1. I vomit on YOU. You’re puke inducing.
2. You admit I post valid opinions, in contrast to most of your pabulum. But it’s not any kind of mystery that you don’t respond (except with your wise-ass, cutesy ‘smiley face’ crap), and that’s because…
3. You’re one of those cowards I referred to earlier.
You got your ass handed to you for that brilliant treatise on the proper use of firearms by Officer Wilson but you haven’t bothered with a rebuttal. In your scintillating and inimitable style, of course.
What a surprise!
😀
#16, No, never said I hate cops or Christians. I do remember saying I despise Bible Thumpers (who really aren’t Christians) & I obviously have enough commonsense not to jump on the Cops are Wonderful All the Time bandwagon. Everyone knows (I thought until now) there are good cops, bad cops, cops with expertise & skill & idiots.
& No, I don’t read all your comments; but am quite sure you think you “handed me my ass” at some point, somewhere along the line.
I usually don’t bother with people like you, today’s an exception. Won’t happen again. Your opinion means nothing to me, but every once in a while everyone looks too closely at the bums on the street. Begreifen Sie das?
And I certainly trust your authority to advise us all on the who the “real” Christians are, and seeing as you’re not one yourself, I guess you’d know.
I’ll wait patiently while you come up with so much as ONE clear cut example of that.
Take your time.
So did NDT, in the same comment section and concerning the same anti-cop screed you posted.
So don’t answer ME, if that thought causes you to soil your Depends…answer him.
We’ll wait (a long, long time, likely) for that one, too.
That’s pretty clear, but I think I’ll be able to manage in spite of it.
Funny you should make this allusion…I see you very much the same way, although I see “bums on the street” defecating and urinating in the all the wrong places, much like you’ve done recently here.
I think that’s worth addressing.
And so I have.
Would you like me to be impressed that you know some German?
Do you think it makes you look more erudite and urbane?
Well, I’m not…and it doesn’t.
La pregunta realmente es: ¿lo entiendes?
See, I know Spanish.
Isn’t that wonderful?
Oh, I forgot one:
You never had to.
Any reasonably literate person with so much as an 8th grade reading level could pick it up from your wise ass remarks regarding either/both topics whenever and where ever they present themselves.
If you invoke ‘Barney Fife’ and the like every time the subject is cops, then you hate cops.
If you invoke “bible thumpers” every time the subject is Christians or Christianity, then your message (that you don’t like or respect either) is equally clear.
J’ai me suis fait effacer?
Oh, I’m terribly sorry. I took nine years of French and that just slipped out.
I’ll try not to let it happen again.