Beerestroika: Drinking to distraction

Today’s the big day. The Obama/Gates/Crowley “beer summit” will take place at about 6 p.m. on a picnic table on the South Lawn of the White House, where every belch will be filled with hope and each beer can pyramid supported by change.
Fortunately for Professor Gates, unless he has a horrible pilot, he won’t have to fly over North Carolina to get to DC.
President Obama will then sit down with Gates and Crowley to discuss in part how they can help get rid of all-too-common racial and ethnic stereotypes — as the three Irishmen drink the afternoon away in front of the entire world.
That brings up another troublesome item — did you notice that when things went bad on the public relations front for a proud “black scholar” and the country’s first African-American president, all of a sudden everybody was Irish? What gives? Are they essentially blaming their race-baiting knee-jerk statements on this one particular singled-out slice of ancestry? If so, this isn’t the kind of racial “healing” I was hoping for.
You might imagine that enterprising Cambridge burglars are now well aware that people in Gates’ neighborhood are going to be terrified to call the police and report crimes for fear of being branded “racist,” but that’s an issue for Gates’ neighbors to take up with the professor when he gets back to his home that hopefully still has all his stuff in it.
Enjoy your beers, fellas — and I sincerely hope that Officer Crowley invites Gates and Obama to his police station for coffee with his fellow officers. The offer probably wouldn’t be accepted (in the progressive ideology, there’s such a thing as “too much healing”), but it would be a nice gesture nonetheless.
Conan O’Brien put it best: “If this works out, the president is going to have Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad over for Jägerbombs.”
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The individual was identified by Gates himself as his limo driver, not a cabbie.
And in his report (aka a summary of the event written after its conclusion), Crowley knew that the they were black because at that point he’d seen them with his own two eyes.
Sheesh….
Sheesh, indeed, Stranger. I expect it would be hard to miss someone who the uber-racist Gates himself described saying, “My driver is a large black man“.
However the only point to note on all this is that no one disputes that it was a case of two black men attempting a possible B&E in progress. That’s 100% correct, as everyone here will agree.
First, gee I wonder why they won’t release the tapes of Gates’ call to the PD demanding to speak with the Chief?
I listened to the dispatch tapes and you can tell ’someone’ is in the background and if nothing else popping off about something.
The info from the RP was at best disjointed and incomplete, the dispatcher sent the officer to a possible burglary with suspects still inside- if you have never responded to a call like that it has a pucker factor of about 9, so it would be expected that the responding units would be on guard and acting in a tactical manner until they knew what was up. Most residential burgs DO occur during the day, when people are at work see?
Now if you get there, a burglary in progress with suspects still in the residence, and the first person you talk to is uncooperative, refusing to properly identify themselves and getting hostile towards you- there is NO COP in the world who is not immediately going think something is not right here.
And possibly Hispanic to a cop means, also possibly some other race with dark skin too- we know witnesses can mistake one for the other when they are seeing from a distance, it’s only good tactics to do so.
Frankly, the tapes prove nothing other than they had an ‘uncooperative’(because you can’t say azz hole on the air) person found in the residence of a possible burg in progress, and that’s about the extent of what the tapes can reasonably be said to reveal.
I did notice that ‘52′ wanted to go the secondary freq and that other units could not raise him for a short time- possibly because Gates loud mouth was keeping him from hearing his handset??
I think there is a definite reason they are not releasing the tape of his call to get the Chief on the horn, and someone needs to do a FOIA request to get it released asap.
Hi purplepeep!
My other half and I are getting so tired of this whole circus, with people looking for ways to indict Sgt. Crowley, who was simply doing his job.
Besides the fact that Gates himself had already identified his driver, I had to laugh at the idea that the “renowned Harvard scholar”, who owns a house on Martha’s Vineyard, would stand in line at Logan to hop a cab home to the People’s Republic of Cambridge after the long, tiring flight from China (the excuse everyone was making for his rant was that he was “tired” after his trip); he’d have a private reservation limousine waiting to pick him up (and that’s usually just a town car, not a stretch for those who are indulging in fantasies). And while a limo driver would be likely to extend the service to carrying suitcases (or backpacks or grocery bags or whatever) up onto the professor’s porch (and helping him open the recalcitrant door), it’s a very rare cabbie who’d do the same. I know how it works.
I’m still curious to know if there’s any dashboard camera footage with audio. I’m also with blues (comment #150) in that the Harvard I.D. wouldn’t have been sufficient in proving he lived at that residence. He just got off a plane, didn’t he? Did he get on it with his Harvard I.D.?
Howdy Stranger -
Yeah, what happened is Obama stepped in some deep doo-doo on this, his poll numbers dropped, and so the diversionary tactic is to wildly attempt to demonize a fine police officer (one by everyone’s account).
I also don’t know of too many cabbies/limo drivers who will agree to join in on what could just have easily been an actually illegal entry. “Sure, I’ll help you tear the doors off!”. What kind of goofball gets mixed up in something like that?
Though this driver woud seem to be assigned to him personally as an ongoing thing.
I’m thinking the only error the police made was in not transferring Gate’s custody over to a local public mental health institution for a mandatory 3-day hold for psychiatric observation. Put the jackass in a straightjacket & let him scream his signature scholar “Yo mama! Yo mamma!!” quote until he was hoarse.
I cannot wait for ol big ears to screw his post beer recap of the conversation between all the parties…..
Oh…..yeah….
The One has one very bad case of diarrhea of the mouth, combined with foot-in-mouth disease. The next presser when this comes up will be another “teachable moment” that he just can’t pass on.
And that’s a good thing – the more he goes on about his race-based obsessions, the faster his poll numbers drop.
Good lord they let Joe “I voted against the Alaskan Pipeline” Biden join them.
Biden + Beer = Upcoming Classic Soundbites
Has Michelle gone soft on elitism? Officer Crowley chose to drink Blue Moon at the “beer summit.” What kind of man drinks a microbrew spiced with coriander in which you’re supposed to put ORANGE?
And the Kenyan usurper is drinking a classically American Bud Light!
Are you kidding me? The 3 stooges are actually sitting in lawn chairs, with suits on, drinking a beer. If the prez had any class, he’d be dangerous.
What? No dinner?
don’t look now but Biden spilling the beans on everything said in 3..2..1..
Maybe Crowley heard them say 2 males with black backs instead of 2 males with backpacks.
A beer. Beerdrinkers never have just one. You can have one martini, or one cocktail but beers require multiple trips to the fridge. Am I right? This must be a facade.
He’ll eat Wagu beef but drink that swill? Dear God, that should be an impeachable offense. With all the Irish undertones in this case you would think they would have a nice pint O’ Guinness to stay with the theme.
Officer Crowley took questions and sounded like the professinal I knew he would be.
Having several officers as close friends I know them all to be calm smart and wellspoken.
Gates the bigot on the other hand apparently slinked out without a press conference…..Says a lot, me thinks
All said and done, and not that my opinion matters a hill of beans but I was pleased with Crowley.
Agreed, Collegeguy – one of my nephews is a commander with the NYPD and I can see him, being very fair, level-headed and “calm, cool & collected”, handling himself in pretty much the same manner. Sgt.Crowley handled this with class and complete professionalism.
Also agreed. But since Gates entire schtick and life is accurately summed up as: “Whites are racists! Yo mama!!”, would you advise this “scholar” to even give a presser?
Photo-op.
Nothing more.
Obama put his big foot in his mouth, and now he’s got to wash it down with beer.
What did TOTUS have – a Windex or a Klear Screen?
So where’s the MD 20/20?
In the First Lady’s nightstand.
Why in the world was Biden there? He was not involved in the slightest. Oh, never mind. MAJOR photo-op. At least his and Obie’s backs were to the cameras.
Foolishness. These two socialists are repulsive.
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