We’re shocked…shocked…MSDNC would have jumped to such an egregiously erroneous, utterly unsupported conclusion.
Here’s the juice: on January 6th, hundreds of largely, but not lily White, completely unarmed rioters stormed the Capitol, resulting in the death of one, unarmed White female and perhaps, perhaps (as the exact cause of death Brian Sicknick’s demise has yet to be determined) one Capitol Hill policeman, and Donald Trump was blamed.
Now, a lone armed, Black Muslim male has assaulted the Capitol and definitely killed one officer and wounded another. Any question how long this second attack will get MSM coverage, let alone whether Screwy Louie Farra…
…will be blamed for it?!?
Since we’re on the subject of The Left’s double standards, as Helen Krause noted today, “Google’s home page routinely celebrates obscure world holidays and events. Today, however, as 2 billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter, there is no mention of it on Google. There’s a new world order. Happy Easter friends.”
Robin Mayer added, “I remember several years ago when Easter fell on Che Guevara’s birthday. Google ‘celebrated’ Che’s birthday in their masthead rather than Easter.”
It is indeed a new world order, dear ones. Welcome to 1984.
“…“Certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked, it could be that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me,” he added. “I really don’t know what the answer is, that’s the truthful answer,” he said. “I have no idea.”…”
Yes, and there COULD BE a laptop out there which was dropped off at a Delaware repair shop by the drug-befuddled, ne’re-do-well son of 46* and never retrieved.
“George Floyd forcibly resisted arrest. He did not verbally threaten the arresting officers, but he used significant force against them to try to prevent being taken into custody. He did not merely refuse to comply with their directives.
That was the upshot of Wednesday, the third day of the Derek Chauvin trial, in which the fired officer is charged with two counts of murdering Floyd, as well as with a count of negligently causing his death (manslaughter).
Though prosecutors tried some misdirection, the video and audio recordings are clear: Floyd, at six-foot, four-inches and 223 pounds (according to the autopsy report), was so determined not to be placed in the back of the squad car that, even though he was handcuffed, four grown men — police officers trained in the use of force, and pushing and pulling for all they were worth — could not get him to take a seated position.
This does not mean the officers’ prolonged restraint of Floyd later on, as his life faded, was justified. That is the central issue the jury will have to resolve. But the latest evidence helps better explain what preceded the infamous and grim video footage of Floyd under Chauvin’s knee.
Notably, Floyd’s now-famous statements that he could not breathe and that police were killing him, as well as his cries for his mother, were not just reactions — as prosecutors and political activists have framed it — to his being placed in a neck hold by Chauvin after police put him in a dangerous prone position on the street. In reality, Floyd began calling for his mother, and crying out that he could not breathe and was going to die, while police were trying to get him to sit in the back of the squad car. Those claims may have been sincere, but if so, they were spurred by what Floyd maintained were his “claustrophobia” and anxiety over being taken into custody, not by the neck hold in which Chauvin subsequently placed him. (Which fairly screams the question how Floyd could be claustrophobic in the back of a squad car when, in both of his last run-ins with police, he was encountered sitting in a vehicle?)
What’s more, it was not the idea of the arresting officers to place Floyd in a prone position on the street. Rather, after propelling his way out of the squad-car rear seat that four cops unsuccessfully struggled to place him in, Floyd insisted that he preferred to lie down on the street. The police restrained him in the position in which he put himself, which was not the position they wanted him in (they wanted him in the car). Reasonably convinced that Floyd was high on drugs (a conclusion supported by his erratic behavior, the accounts of witnesses, and later toxicology tests), the police called for paramedics to take him to a hospital, rather than continuing to try to thrust him in the squad car and take him into police custody…”
While we’re second to none in our admiration for Andy McCarthy, we’d respectfully offer an alternative analysis of this case. Rather than being “more complicated than prosecutors would have it”, we’d suggest it’s far more simple: George Floyd, a man with multiple underlying health conditions, OD’d on a lethal mixture of banned substances while in police custody…and Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck had nothing to do with his demise.
Whether a jury will recognize this reality is another story entirely; after all, 12 of his peers found O.J. innocent. But a guilty verdict won’t alter the truth of the matter.
We turn now to a selection of eight items certain to cater to inquiring minds:
Pritzker, who was born with a silver spoon welded to the roof of his midleading mouth, and who has lived behind walls and armed security his entire life of uninterrupted White privilege, commuted Reed’s sentence despite a Cook County judge’s ruling the killer’s rights were never violated as he claimed. Without wishing ill on Pritzker, if Reed does kills again, we hope it’s either the governor or a member of his immediate family so he suffers the consequences of his unconscionable action rather than some innocent.
(4). In a related item courtesy of Watts Up With That via Jeff Foutch, we learn in the wake of Delta Airlines criticism of Georgia’s voter integrity laws, the Georgia House of Representatives is stripping Delta of state fuel tax exemptions. It’s worth noting, in CNN’s coverage, what is truly a voter integrity measure is described as the “state’s controversial new law clamping down on ballot access”, an “effort to restrict voting” and the erection of “new barriers to voting”.
(6). As for the press, as Jim Freeman records at Best of the Web, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an update on its own questionable reporting:
“CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said the new law would limit voting hours. On Election Day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules.“
(8). In a related item from Powerline via Tom Bakke, Steven Hayward accurately assesses the completely over-the-top reaction to Georgia’s common-sense election reforms represent further evidence the great Liberal death wish has entered a new phase, particularly as Cobb County, where the Braves ballpark is located and which stands to lose by its own estimate some $100 million, voted for Biden!!! As Hayward goes on to note:
“And this is the thanks they get. Atlanta used to boast it is “the city too busy to hate,” but for the activist left that controls the Democratic Party, you’re never too busy to hate Atlanta, and inflicting economic pain on your own voters is a perfect example of the Great Liberal Death Wish in action.“
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…four each from the lovely Shannon…
…and Balls Cotton…
…along with one more from Marcus Aurelias…
…and Speed:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with book recommendation from reader Bob Shillingstad’s: Steve Deace’s Faucian Bargain.
It ties in nicely with a warning from Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address which hasn’t, at least to date, received the same amount of attention as the threat posed by the military-industrial complex, as quoted by Florida governor Ron DeSantis:
“In his famous Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned about allowing public policy to become captive to a scientific elite without regard to the principles of our constitutional system and the goals of a free society. Eisenhower was prescient. During the COVID crisis, states like New York that embraced unadulterated Faucism saw poor results across the board, while states that pursued an Eisenhower-style approach like Florida protected freedom and performed better in education, economy and health outcomes. Executives are elected to lead and make tough decisions, and such leadership cannot be outsourced to health bureaucrats like Fauci.“
Or as we would say of Dr. Faux Chi and his fellows…
And from where we sit, Dr. Faux Chi’s outlived both his usefulness and his integrity.
Magoo
Video of the Day
If you missed it, Tucker’s analysis of 46*’s “infrastructure” bill is well worth watching in its entirety.
Tales of The Darkside
As Michael Smerconish’s Republican guest, Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling quipped, the CNN host “sounds way too rational to be in the news media”, particularly on CNN.
On the Lighter Side
A classic riposte from Ben Shapiro in response to a miseducated Millennial.
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