Ain’t this ridiculous? So Obama’s having Gates and the cop who arrested him over at the White House for a brewski - and now this becomes a “controversy”:
Earlier this week the White House indicated each man would drink the beer of their choice — Bud Light for President Obama, Blue Moon for the police officer, […]

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Wow. So you might have heard about this, the (white) Boston Police Officer is in the process of becoming an ex-Boston police officer on account of an e-mail he sent far and wide - though it seems originally intended for a Boston news outlet - in which he repeatedly calls Skip Gates a “jungle monkey” or a “banana-eating […]

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And this on Fox News, even.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYo6dR0tf_I

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Well, with the exception of Boss Rush, of course.
Actually, I think Grove’s got part of it here:
But the Republican establishment has just suffered through the crucible of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, in which their attempts to portray history’s first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee as a reverse racist blew up in their faces. Once burned, twice […]

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Hooooold the phone:
A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.
Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report […]

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Smoking gun has it.
Sounds like Gates was being seriously obnoxious. Is that a crime?

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Colleague asks, “Why  is everyone covering the Gates thing from the racial angle? Why aren’t they covering it from the rights angle?” Which, coincidentally, we will get into in the vid later today/tomorrow…
But I’m amused here, by Limbaugh - we don’t know what went on inside the Gates house, he keeps saying. Right. We don’t. But whatever […]

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