Comments on: A video on Gatesgate that stands for itself

By: nyomythus

nyomythus — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:48:04 +0000

I know Thomas, Hitchens recently got roughed up in Lebanon because someone was harassing a woman on the street or something like that.

By: Thomass

Thomass — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:41:24 +0000

nyomythus Says:

“It’s almost as if he’s been to so many despotic countries where of course you don’t talk back to the Syrian cop, or the North Korean cop, or the Zimbabwean cop”

Actually, , he has done some talk back in bad [non western] places. And he had the cr*p beat out of him for it (probably came close to being murdered). But, what can I say, at least he doesn’t only do it where it is safe.

By: Willa

Willa — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:49:04 +0000

All of this has had the effect of making me wonder if the birthers are not right. I know there seems to be no connection, but there is something so ‘off’ about Obama and he seems so deflated that he went where he didn’t have to go at the pres conf. and hurt himself badly. I wonder if it’s the question of his birth cert and have to ask, why doesn’t he just show his bc or his college records & be done with it? Why is he hiding the college transcripts? Why doesn’t the press want to see them? Are they afraid of their bubble bursting?

By: nyomythus

nyomythus — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:20:37 +0000

neo-neocon

Hitchens is an interesting guy. He likes to be a contrarian, and fancies himself a feisty iconoclast. He also isn’t exactly a calm type.

It’s almost as if he’s been to so many despotic countries where of course you don’t talk back to the Syrian cop, or the North Korean cop, or the Zimbabwean cop … but in America you can talk back in defense of your rights and this is not a weakness, it is a demonstration of how a land is governed by not laws that oppress, but laws that free the human spirit.

But still — when the cops are being nice — you don’t have to go ballistic for the sake of going ballistic as Gates seem to have done, you can calmly retort, but wild behavior is going to communicate more than you want it to communicate and if it’s disrupting the neighborhood peace or the investigation at hand then you’re just being an ass and probably breaking the law.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:54:03 +0000

Also, what continually surprises me is that people like Gates, who is obviously an hysterical, clueless, supercilious dweeb, has two chauffeurs and a chair at Harvard. He makes programs on Public TV that impressionable, unsuspecting liberals will watch and maybe go around all day with sour feelings in their stomachs due to thinking how dreadfully they, and their country, which they previously liked, have been to Professor Gates.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:20:35 +0000

Whoa, Neo! Great! You hit this one right out of the park.

BUT *** if you are going to tell us her affect matches her words you might want to slip us a little crib sheet before the test. Had I not read Walker Percy I may not have known what affect was, and that was fiction.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:08:06 +0000

Assistant.
Not any more.
She’s smart enough to figure the dems put Obama up there and he’s a disaster.
So why would she trust them with the next candidate?
She’s gotten a glimpse of what a number of zero’s supporters have–and more will–gotten about how they got snookered.
What’s more, the more reflective of them will see their own roll in self-snookering.
IMO, that will be even more infuriating.
Still, for most the climbdown will be impossible to admit, either to themselves or at least in public.

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:42:28 +0000

Kelly King for president…

She should start smaller. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I’d send money to that. Not many Democrats* I’d do that for.

*Concluded from her Obama vote.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0000

Hitchens is an interesting guy. He likes to be a contrarian, and fancies himself a feisty iconoclast. He also isn’t exactly a calm type.

By: CV

CV — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:09:18 +0000

The charge was disorderly conduct and it occured as the officer was leaving the scene. Gates left his own house to follow the cop and continued ranting and raving and berating him in public, in full view of a gathering crowd.

Maybe Hitchens, like Obama, should gather all the facts before pontificating on the situation in a public forum.

I find it VERY hard to believe that the idea for all parties to get together for a beer at the White House was Crowley’s. That is classic Obama, “hey-let’s-all-get-together-and-I-will-dazzle-you-with-my-personality-and-really-impressive-house-and-all-will-be-forgiven-and-forgotten.”

Not this time around, Mr. President. You may actually have hurt yourself on this one.