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MATTHEWS: See, what I don’t understand is, she knew her neighbor was African-American. He had a certain look. She sees a guy with a certain look. She wasn’t profiling, or what—what was going on here?
What an idiot. A women sees two men, who she can't even identify by race, trying to strong-arm their way into a house and she calls 911. He should be so lucky to have a neighbor like that. But I hope he doesn't.
Chris Matthews isn't the sharpest knife in the box.
Yes, whenever anyone sees a black man who appears to be breaking into a home, they should be sure not to call it in. Better to risk your neighbor's property, and perhaps life, than to be seen as a "racist."
why don't you just make a post called "the washington times water cooler blog", link to the blog, and let us read it ourselves, instead of posting 2/3 of the items from the last couple of days in separate threads?
do you realize you are just linking over and over to the front page of the blog?
hint: if you click on the post name, it will bring you to a page that only contains the story you are referencing. then people can read the thing without digging through an entire blog.
It seems to me an awful lot of people are commenting on something that they know nothing about. This woman was not a neighbor. She worked in the area. Matthews claims boldly that this woman knew Gates. Well guess what? Not everyone knows Henry Louis Gates. Not even in Cambridge.
Well a lot of people were attacking the caller.....the policeman.....the professor....all based on what they were hearing from the media at that point. I think the media omits details all the time....sometimes by accident, sometimes with just bad reporting and rushing to get the story out before other media sources do but, mostly they do it intentionally because they all seem to be politically biased now. By omitting, viewers/readers make assumptions and depending upon how biased they are, those assumptions can be just about anything, from the simpliest to flat out bizzare....from that they start drawing conclusions and before you know it, a story is all over the Internet with posters/bloggers criticizing the each participant involved, from just about every angle. Then as more and more details start to come out, we start to get the real story if you follow it closely. A lot of people miss the follow up stuff or they question it if they're politically biased themselves and the initial reports fit their agenda better. What ends up happening is that one story gets several different versions that never seem to stop floating around, all because of politics. There was a time when the media prided itself on accuracy....reporters went out to cover each story in person and got all the facts themselves. I wonder how many journalists now write everything without leaving their computer/desk....maybe even working from home.
Newspapers are down to as few employees as possible now as they try to stay in business and the cable news channels are all about trying to one up each other to get ratings....that's seems to be all that matters. The days of honest sincere journalism are gone for good I think.
MATTHEWS: See, what I don’t understand is, she knew her neighbor was African-American. He had a certain look. She sees a guy with a certain look. She wasn’t profiling, or what—what was going on here?
Hmm, OK, new rule white people, if any white person sees what they believe is an African-American breaking into a house, car, etc, we are to simply ignore it so as to not offend any minority group members.
This doesn't surprise me at all.
When Hillary beat Obama in New Hampshire in the Democratic Primary he declared all of New England racist. He even threw in comments about Boston being racist and Massachusetts wasn't even voting yet.
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