The American Spectator : Gates Lied

Deborah D | 7.29.09 @ 7:12AM

Excellent, Mr. Cline, simply excellent.

WilliamInWien| 7.29.09 @ 7:20AM

What I fail to understand is how a mature male with a law degree and one who has taught law and now holds the highest office in the land can make such a statement (without the facts) and then follow it up with his lack of understanding that what the POTUS says is important and will be responded to. For a politician who generally does not provide any details about his own plans, he sure thought he had them about this incident. Recently I became lost in Wash DC, made a minor traffic mistake and was pulled over by a DC police officer who happened to be black. He read me the riot act, told me all I had done wrong and the cost of the tickets he could issue me. I was the one who made the mistake, but I thought his response was a little "over the top". Never-the-less, I acknowledged my error and responded with "Sir" liberally interjected. I left without a ticket . Gates could have done the same, not that the Sgt was over the top. Retired from federal law enforcement, I speculated that the officer I encountered was having a bad day and I did not help. Again, I did not receive a ticket, just a very detailed description of what I had done wrong. I drove home. William

Darin| 7.29.09 @ 7:24AM

I've seen this quote previously posted, but it's spot-on and remains relevant even today.

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
Booker T. Washington, 1911.

Kitty| 7.29.09 @ 7:33AM

Officer James Crowley is the victim of racial profiling, not the racist Gates.
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Craig J Doucette| 7.29.09 @ 7:58AM

Will charges be brought up against Mr. Gates? I think his job should be in question. Is this the example a professor in African-American studies should portray? Or will his connections with BO exempt from any repurcussions?

Bill Haynes| 7.29.09 @ 8:25AM

Yes -- but your position would be more honest if you had noted Crowley's lie about "two black men" in his report about the incident. As you mentioned the neighbor did not identify black men. So why did Crowley lie in his report?

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The flood Gates open | Worth Reading links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Lifestyle Opinion Multimedia Marketplace About Us Home About The flood Gates open Posted on July 29th, 2009 by John Crowell Professor Henry Gates’ claims that racism was behind his recent arrest don’t hold water. … the City of Cambridge released the 911 and arrest tapes from the incident in which Gates was arrested by white police officer James Crowley. It is no wonder that Gates has begun to back down…

JoeBob| 7.29.09 @ 9:08AM

Crowley did not lie in his police report. He referred to "two black men" because he met the witness in the street in front of Gates' house and tht's what she told him.

Just Wondering| 7.29.09 @ 9:09AM

Bill @ 8:25 AM accuses the officer of lying in his report. I may be wrong, but aren't reports issued after the fact, and by that time wouldn't the officer have known what color the men were?

Funkmaster Chris| 7.29.09 @ 9:22AM

So much for our post racial president.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 7.29.09 @ 9:36AM

obumassiah is trying to force the bitter pill of his socialized medicine scheme down our throats. But he is encountering resistance even in his own ranks. What always seems to happen when he wants to force feed us his tonic is another story pops up in the news to distract us from his true agenda. It is not a coincidence that the liar-in-chief’s comments on this relatively minor incident were spoken as part of a “news conference” about obumahcare. And it has worked. Even Hannity and O’Reilly have fallen for this fake-out. In the meantime republi-con and mangy mutt dumbocrat senators are conspiring to sell us down the river to plantation obumah, and they yap about a silly old man disrespecting the cops.

ncatty| 7.29.09 @ 9:37AM

Identity politics is supreme. MLK's colorblind society has been shelved. Guys like Gates remind me of Civil War re-enactors longing for the past when everything was "simpler."

Raoul Ortega| 7.29.09 @ 9:47AM

It's time to profile: Bill Haynes is a troll. He has just engaged in typical troll behavior: attempting to change the subject by seizing on one minor, inconsequential seeming inconsistency while ignoring a mass of facts that he wishes to ignore.

Then, under the guide of objectivity, he leaps to a subjective conclusion ("So why did Crowley lie in his report?") and then expects others to refute his distortions.

Glen Kremer| 7.29.09 @ 9:56AM

Not metioned was the display of "black arrogance"on the part of Gates and B. Hussain Obama.Did they both learn that at Harvard?

Steve| 7.29.09 @ 9:56AM

Well, perhaps, Mr. Cline. Maybe it was all racial profiling on the part of Mr. Gates. On the other hand, a man as obviously juvenile and foolish as Mr. Gates may have left a crack pipe or a baggie of pot loose on a coffee table which, at all costs, the police must NOT be allowed to see. All the dramatics may have been a scam (successful) to keep his sorry ass out of even worse trouble. We'll never know.

Appleby| 7.29.09 @ 10:19AM

As a certain German Fellow learned at Spa Francorchamps 1998, these days everything is recorded and everybody over the age of 8 has a camera phone. And as Mr. Gates now knows, YouTube rules the world.

The moral of this story is that when opening your yap, make sure what you are saying matches what is already known.

MBD| 7.29.09 @ 10:20AM

Perhaps Harvard should require Gates to undertake a course in racial sensitivity training.

Thomas| 7.29.09 @ 10:24AM

Look, incidents like this happen all the time and they are not restricted to minorities. This was a man swollen with his own importance. How dare a mere public lackey question him? For whatever reason, Professor Gates decided that he had some "right" to yell and shout from his front porch [which is outside of his home] as the police were preparing to leave. When respectfully informed that he was causing a disturbance and to please quite down or return inside his home [three times], he refused and continued in the disruptive behavior. Finally, that which happens in all such situations happened. He was arrested. Not a big deal. It happens thousands of time a day all across this country. What was different in this instance was that the President of the United States decided to make an off the cuff remark chastising the arresting officer for arresting Prof. Gates, without having any real knowledge of the particulars of the incident. That was the tragedy here. Now the Professor is beginning to look like a fool and, unfortunately, so is the President. Can this country afford the latter?

Tim| 7.29.09 @ 10:29AM

How fortunate for Sgt Crowley that witnesses and tapes exist. He was convicted right out of the gate and without that evidence he'd be heading for DC for trial, not a beer with a chastened Obama.

cheeflo| 7.29.09 @ 10:32AM

ncatty| 7.29.09 @ 9:37AM -- Identity politics is supreme. MLK's colorblind society has been shelved. Guys like Gates remind me of Civil War re-enactors longing for the past when everything was "simpler."

Knowing a few Civil War re-enactors, I know that that is not what motivates them to participate. Your comparison is ridiculous.

Bruce| 7.29.09 @ 10:35AM

I don' t know all the facts, but clearly POTUS acted stupidly.

cheeflo| 7.29.09 @ 10:43AM

ncatty| 7.29.09 @ 9:37AM -- ... Guys like Gates remind me of Civil War re-enactors longing for the past when everything was "simpler."

Knowing a few Civil War re-enactors, I know that that is not what motivates them to participate. Your comparison is ridiculous.

cdc| 7.29.09 @ 10:45AM

For good or ill the world is becoming a recorded society, the ultimate in reality TV. Everyone will wear a camera and mic and everything will e saved to a database for later analysis.

gene hauber| 7.29.09 @ 10:47AM

you can take the professor out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the professor......did our esteemed Harvard professor resort to EBONICS when he said to SGT. CROWLEY," I'll come out fo yo momma". What an example of overeducated crap!

hughglass| 7.29.09 @ 10:53AM

We can be thankful to gates (with able asistance from cornball west) for adding a new oxymoron to the American lexicon.."African Studies Scholar". Makes me chuckle every time I hear it. Clearly, there is no such thing. Move over "Jumbo Shrimp".

watson| 7.29.09 @ 11:03AM

A few more of these "teachable moments" will finally take the benefit of such tactics away from the race hustlers.

Pittsburgh Pete| 7.29.09 @ 11:05AM

Prof. Gates displays the fragility of the liberal's credibility. They are completely superfluous, devoid of any substance. Everytime real-life events magnify a liberal, they come off looking like children. Its one reason why Pres. Reagan kicked the snot out of them for 8 years. He set his own table, the one based on the reality most Americans live by and let the people decide which table they preferred. The comparison made the left seem just as pre-teen as Mr. Gates does.

Rick| 7.29.09 @ 11:26AM

Gates is a professional race baiter who makes a very comfortable living preaching hatred against european-americans. His hatred blinded him to the fact that smart police departments now tape everything, for the very purpose of protecting against the slanders and smears that many blacks have been using for decades to try to evade responsibility for anti-social behavior. It started back in the 60s, when blacks burned down and looted their own neighborhoods, and they got very upset when the cops tried to stop them. All of a sudden they discovered "police brutality", and the careers of prefessional race baiters like Sharpton, Jackson, and Gates got a jump start.

Hector| 7.29.09 @ 12:12PM

With the entry of Charles Ogletree as the attorney for Gates - the same Ogletree who, with Johnny Cochran has been pushing to get the reparations case against the US into court - it became clear that this was set up from the beginning, and was meant to be another brick in the foundation of the reparations case. Even Obama was in on it.
Instead, we got another Madonna Constantine moment.

Robert Rosencrans| 7.29.09 @ 12:19PM

One fine point missed in this incident is that Sgt. Crowley has done more to improve race relations in this country then either Professor Gates or President Obama. Sad but true.

sharinlite| 7.29.09 @ 12:20PM

Have you all noticed that the majority of these "racists" like Gates, have gone to Harvard? What is it in Harvard, the water? The Prez and his Mrs. are alumni also. We need to investigate Harvard. It appears to be a den of racists teaching racism to young minds!! Come to think about it, isn't Columbia also a den of racists misfits and Uberleft fascists? Hmmmmm..

Thanks for the quote Darin, appreciate it!

MikeLM| 7.29.09 @ 12:23PM

Gates seems to be all of the things alleged above - racist, liar, "scholar" of a fatuous intellectual discipline - but that's the GOOD news. The bad news is that he's a Professor and head of a fatuous "department" at Harvard. He seems to me to be agonizingly typical of the quality of that faculty in recent decades. I have two degrees from a (much older) Harvard, and I used to be proud of them. Well, I still am, but my status as an alumnus nowdays embarrases me. I stopped even considering donations to the University years ago. Phooey.

Pat| 7.29.09 @ 12:33PM

It would be a relief if the Gates incident, with the all too familiar lies and half-truths, signals the pending demise of "playing the race card" for fun and profit in modern America. But the monetary and emotional extortion represented by "playing the race card" is far too ingrained in American culture for it to suddenly cease, nor will it slowly wither away.

What keeps the race card going is fear and ignorance within the black community, providing more fuel for the fire than any lingering racism among whites. Being a minority in any society is no picnic, American Jews have been telling us that for decades and it doesn't look like they will stop reminding us anytime soon. And within America, Jews, as a minority group, are among the best educated and most economically secure. Now, look at the other end of the spectrum - the black community. Too many of their members aren't well educated and count among the most ignorant of Americans, with illiteracy being far too widespread among black children. They, as a group, are often economically insecure with fatherless children endemic throughout the urban ghettos and far too many black males incarcerated or unwilling to work and support a family.

Blacks keenly feel the contempt of the greater society for their group identity, even when the individual black person can be easily counted among our most valuable of citizens. The inner, and unnamed, fear of what the white majority may do to them some day may not be pressently justified by specific actions, but you can't expect to vanish widely held fears with rhetoric and logic. And the emotional extortion represented by "playing the race card" calls attention to those group fears and demands frequent reassurance of benign intent from the greater society.

Happy Katy| 7.29.09 @ 12:33PM

My first thought upon first release of this story:
Was a sobriety test administered, including blood/alcohol? The esteemed Professor was acting exactly like those ranting and acting wildly enough to be ejected from airline flights. And this was BEFORE it was reported that he was arriving home from a long flight!

Mick| 7.29.09 @ 12:43PM

The only good news to come out of this is how totally pathetic Gates and his 'friend in high places' now look...

Thom | 7.29.09 @ 3:48PM

Wrong. You said: "Officer Crowley was not looking for black men. He had no idea what race the suspects were."

Crowley wrote in his police report that the 911 caller said there were two black males with backpacks. This was before he went to Gates' house. That turns out to be a lie, according to the 911 caller herself. But it says a lot about Crowley, and directly contradicts your ridiculous assertion.

Marc Jeric| 7.29.09 @ 4:28PM

Let me speak my mind on the subject of those two racist friends - Gates and Obama:
1) The unruly and violent behavior of the "Professor" Gates and his words "I will speak to your mother" with the clear sexual connotation would have made my reaction much more violent than the officer Crowley's was;
2) Gates is the director of the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard. Du Bois was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize; after his 1957-58 visit to the USSR and China he was so impressed by their system of Gulag exterminations that he became member of the Communist Party USA. Among other honorees of that Prize were the well-know racists/communists Paul Robeson (his was Stalin Peace Prize), and Angela Davis; also mass murderers Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Brezhnev, Dinh, Nkrumah, etc.
3) What exactly does "Professor" Gates teach his students? What was he doing during his visit to China? Perhaps soliciting a Mao Tse Tung Peace Prize? Maybe he wanted to inspect their Gulag and Tien-whatever square? Or the plight of Tibetans and Uighurs and Falon whatever? Who paid for that visit - Harvard? Is it an income tax deduction? How much does Gates pay in rent for that Harvard-owned house - if anything?
Just a few questions that come to mind. As for that White House beer - the officer Crowley would do well to refuse the invitation; let the two racists enjoy their reunion in peace.

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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Internships Podcast@CRC Video@CRC One-Time Contribution Monthly Donation Home Henry Louis Gates Lied July 29th, 2009 by Matthew Vadum in today’s American Spectator , Andrew Cline masterfully eviscerates poseur Henry Louis Gates, who cried racism after being arrested by a white cop. Gates, apparently lied about, well, just about everything. It’s a teaching…

Chris| 7.29.09 @ 4:49PM

Amazing, Reading all of these hyper ventilated posts I find the facts very elusive.
Here are the facts that are agreed upon by the 2 parties involved:
Fact 1: Gates provided the Police officer with ID that verified his residency in the house.
Fact2: In the City of Cambridges disorderly conduct law requires a Public component to it and that component cannot be the officer himself. Hence why the officials dropped the charges.
I THINK THE PROBLEM HERE IS THE ARREST. Why was he arrested in the first place. Once his credentials where established, ie, he was the owner of the residence why arrest him? That is the real argument. If we take Officer Crowley's side of the argument then once the owner of the house was established whether he may be getting cussed out or not, his job is done and he can leave. That is not what happened. This is an officer that deals with and is trained to handle domestic disturbance call outs, talking suicide victims down, car accidents, etc; Some how this old guy with a cane pushed him over the edge? Lets just thank about that....

Richard Baker| 7.29.09 @ 4:52PM

Ah yes. Gates can't be racist. Jesse Jackson said that minorities can't be racist and we all know that he is always correct, isn't he? If Obama is the Messiah then Jesse Jackson MUST be John the Baptist.

robrt| 7.29.09 @ 5:25PM

Was about to read article before Ben Stein asked me for money. Now I am leaving.

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Chronicling The Lies of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. » cb.blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Jr. At the time that I wrote that post, I was unaware of the absolute fabrications of and lies about the events surrounding his arrest, first by Gates’ lawyer, and later by Gates himself. This American Spectator article (h/t Lucianne) thoroughly discusses Gates’ two most egregious lies: that Gates was not yelling and that Crowley racially profiled Gates due to the 911 call reporting a possible break-in by two…

TJK| 7.29.09 @ 6:42PM

The arrogance of our President is beyond belief. He says this is a "teachable moment." First, I don't want the President to teach, I want him to lead. Second, who does he think he is to teach US anything about this???? He who, by his own admission, made this situation worse by opening his yap and opining on something he said he knew nothing about! Mr. President, what did YOU learn from this, if anything???? Give me a break- learn yourself, then maybe you can teach us.

Gates Flu lied dead| 7.29.09 @ 6:48PM

Warning: Swine Flu Vaccine Coming Soon
Bill Haymin July 05, 2009By Dr Mercola

www.mercola.com

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/04/Warning-Swine-Flu-Vaccine-Coming-Soon.aspx

Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it's in "full scale" production of a swine flu vaccine. The vaccine will be commercially available in July.

The company made its announcement one day after the World Health Organization declared swine flu a global pandemic.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 45 swine flu deaths nationwide.

The National Vaccine Information Center will hold its 4th conference in Washington DC October 2-4 of this year: http://www.nvic.org/Events/overview.aspx I will be speaking there as will some of the leading experts in vaccines in the world. Clearly the best vaccine conference in the world and it is only held every few years. If this is of any interest to you I would strongly encourage you to attend.

Sources:

Washington Post June 13, 2009

National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) June 18, 2009 http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2009/Swine-Flu-Vaccine--Will-We-Have-A-Choice--by-Barba.aspx

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

As I predicted in my first swine flu alert, http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/28/Swine-Flu.aspx a fast-tracked swine flu vaccine was promptly ordered, and will be available as early as July. Pharmaceutical giant Baxter claims it has patented technology that cuts the usual vaccine development time in half, to about 13 weeks instead of 26.

Although many governments and health organizations are probably celebrating this feat, you have no reason to join in the festivities. In fact, you have good reason to fear being exposed to this new swine flu vaccine more than the swine flu itself.

You are virtually guaranteed that no safety evaluations will be performed prior to the reckless unleashing of this untested vaccine.

And, making matters worse, your children may be the first guinea pigs in this public vaccine experiment against a previously unseen hybrid of human, bird and pig viruses.

School Children May Face Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations

I was hoping mandatory vaccinations would not happen, but it now appears as though that's exactly what we might be facing in the near future.

In the video above, Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2009/Swine-Flu-Vaccine--Will-We-Have-A-Choice--by-Barba.aspx warns that there is a campaign underway to turn schools into virtual vaccination clinics, and children will be the first to be injected with experimental swine flu vaccines.

Part of the reasoning for this is that it appears people over the age of 50 have more cross-reacting antibodies against the current swine flu virus, whereas children who have never been exposed to any of the strains before are more vulnerable.

The Post Gazette http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09156/975227-114.stm#ixzz0HahlAjDA&C recently reported experts saying, "if the new H1N1 flu comes back in force this fall, it might be better to vaccinate children first," because "in the early stages of the epidemic this spring, the new flu strain has caused "explosive outbreaks" among schoolchildren who have no immunity to it."

Again, it's troubling to see health officials using the term "explosive outbreaks" for a flu that in the vast majority of cases has been reported to be very mild.

Such inflammatory language is simply uncalled for.

Making matters worse, they want to target children who have underlying health problems, i.e. the most vulnerable of the group, which means any potential problems with this untested vaccine will have the capacity to do maximum damage.

Why are We Putting Up With the Same Mistakes Again?

The current evolution of public health decisions has disturbing similarities to previous swine flu vaccine catastrophes'. The last swine flu threat emerged in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

However, within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the experimental vaccine. Several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after their injections. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

Meanwhile, the deadly swine flu pandemic itself NEVER materialized…

When a vaccine is developed in a mere 13 weeks, you can be virtually assured that it has NOT had the time to be tested in clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness.

The way I see it, we now stand poised to experience a repeat of the last dangerous swine flu vaccine, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of healthy young boys and girls.

The real kicker, of course, is the fact that if the new vaccine turns out to be a killer, the pharmaceutical companies responsible have immunity from any lawsuits http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/01/03/vaccine-makers-getting-inoculated-from-lawsuits.aspx -- something I've also warned about before on numerous occasions.

Absolutely no one stands to be liable if this vaccine turns out to be a health disaster.

Governments Take Unnecessary "Code Red" Attitude to Flu Threat

The U.S. Congress handed over unprecedented power to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) after 9-11, and they're chomping at the bit to exercise it now that the World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded the swine flu threat to Phase 6, Pandemic status.

But really, the word 'pandemic' only means that a new virus is spreading across the world. It says nothing about its level of physical danger.

So far, the swine flu has claimed a mere 332 lives WORLDWIDE http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_07_01a/en/index.html (as of July 1), 116 of the deaths occurred in Mexico.

To keep this in perspective, the regular flu (not the swine flu) has allegedly killed 13,000 in the U.S. since January, http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/04/28/US-seasonal-flu-kills-13000-since-Jan/UPI-64801240974841/ although there is strong support that these types of figures are grossly exaggerated to increase vaccine sales. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/10/30/flu-deaths.aspx However, the fact remains that the regular flu at this point in time is FAR more dangerous than the swine flu, and were you worried about the regular flu before the media started hyping up this exotic new "killer flu"?

Despite the indications that the swine flu is more a pandemic nuisance than a pandemic killer, the U.S. Congress responded to the CDC's public health emergency declaration by handing over one billion dollars to a group of drug companies, including Baxter, to fast track experimental swine flu vaccines that may include whole live, dead, or genetically engineered human and animal flu viruses.

Additionally, nearly all vaccines contain a variety of adjuvants – potentially dangerous chemicals used as preservatives and/or to boost the vaccine's potency by affecting your immune system, http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/immune_suppression.htm such as thimerosal. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/07/23/mercury-vaccines-part-eight.aspx

But the 'code red' attitude to this phantom threat doesn't end there.

Barbara Loe Fisher warns in her article, http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2009/Swine-Flu-Vaccine--Will-We-Have-A-Choice--by-Barba.aspx

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