Posted on 08/15/2014 11:51:26 AM PDT by chessplayer
In the wake of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown’s shooting death following a confrontation with local police, two reporters, one with the Washington Post and another with the Huffington Post, were arrested by officials for failing to follow police orders as the town continues to deal with ongoing violence and looting.
Following the arrest of Wesley Lowery, an African American reporter for the Washington Post, and later the arrest of Ryan Kelly, a white reporter for the Huffington Post, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell sent out a tweet on Wednesday, August 13 asking if Lowery was “detained for reporting while black?”
That’s my point, the reporters were “camped out” for the free wi-fi & air conditioning.
It’s the infamous liberal change-up. Beat the war on women horse. Then the gay horse, then the class envy horse, then the race horse (snicker, ‘race horse’). Rinse and repeat. Never stay too long on one horse, but beat them violently into a pulp for a few weeks before switching to a new one. Who can argue? It’s a strategy that seems to work.
I wonder if Andrea Mitchell was reporting while stupid.
Got it! I’m a little slow today.
“Who can argue? It’s a strategy that seems to work.”
When the public is dumb as a post, with the attention span of a gnat, it doesn’t take much.
ANDrea Mitchell is apparently retained for her idiocy.
YES. And we need to refer to them that way...
Ready for a cold brew at my local ice-house.
Ice-House - Southern code word for Beer Joint!
Ice-House - Southern code word for Beer Joint!
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That term I do know! Going to a picnic tomorrow (bunch of hunters) .... ‘Roadkill Stew’, deep fried fish, marinated venison/dove skewers AND a cooler (maybe more than one) full of beer!!!!
Enjoy your visit to the Ice-House - have a GREAT weekend!
I take it you are in Alaska, the weather must be perfect this time of the year.
Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals
Here is the complete list from Alinsky.
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
She can afford to get all alinsky radical up there in her ivory tower (programming, channeling)Television studio where the only black people she sees are bringing her coffee, picking up her tissues, driving her limo or cooking her food. In her small mind she, having wait staff that are black, is helping and not the problem. She thinks we, the racist, bigot homophobes, working right next to hardworking black Americans are the problem because we couldn’t possibly treat them decent because we are white and from the south. If someone told Andrea Mitchell she was a snotty elitist bitch, she would drop dead of a heart attack. But that doesn’t change the fact she is.
Could their offense have been “Reporting while treasonous”?
WaPo and Huf’n’Puf? Cry me a river.
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