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The New York Times and Other Members of the Ferguson Hall of Shame
PJ Media ^ | November 25, 2014 | Roger L. Simon

Posted on 11/27/2014 4:20:04 PM PST by Kaslin

That the photograph of Walter Duranty — the New York Times Moscow correspondent who deliberately whitewashed Stalin’s 1930s forced starvation of millions of Ukrainians and won the Pulitzer for it — still is on the newspaper’s wall of fame with their other prize winners is apparently no aberration. The New York Times has no moral center. In fact, it’s despicable. On November 24, they published the home address of Officer Darren Wilson.

By now most of America knows who Wilson is — the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer exonerated for the murder of Michael Brown, the supposed 6′ 6″, three-hundred-pound “gentle giant” who was reportedly on his way to college, but it turns out was holding up convenience stores and trying to grab Wilson’s gun and bashing him in the face all while the officer was sitting in his police car. We also all know the reaction of some of the angrier members of the Ferguson community and those omnipresent “outside agitator” dime-store anarchists to the grand jury announcement — cars torched, minority businesses burned down, looting, gunfire, freeways blocked, etc., etc. A lot of out-of-control mayhem from L.A. to NY with racial hatred fanned at every turn. The NYT apparently doesn’t give a shit (excuse the French, but it’s merited). In the midst of all this, they print Wilson’s address. It was to them “all the news that’s fit to print.” Who cares what might happen to the cop and his family? He’s just a cop, after all, and a white one at that. Definitely not a member of the elite — not bon type, bon genre. (Maybe someone should do a country song — “Two thousand miles from Zabar’s.”)

So much for that newspaper. They’re cancer.

Not quite cancer but pretty bad is Jay Nixon, the governor of Missouri. Not only did he attempt to prejudge the case, calling for Wilson’s head like some minor league Robespierre months before there was any evidence, but then, on the night of the grand jury announcement, after having brought in the National Guard, he goes completely AWOL and doesn’t use the Guards at all, leaving the poor store owners of Ferguson to fend for themselves, not to mention the police. Everyone got to watch the results on TV.

Peter Kinder, the vice governor of Missouri, wants to know what happened. Why no Guards, when they were all set to go? Did the word come down from the White House or the Department of Justice to keep the Guards out? Nixon didn’t answer, just accused Kinder of playing politics. (At least he didn’t play the race card, but that would be hard, white man to white man…. although it’s possible.) So we don’t know… yet.

And then there’s Brown’s stepfather who looks about five years older than Brown himself and exhorted the crowds to “Burn the bitch down.” Geraldo wants him indicted, which says a lot. To me he’s a minor player.

And finally there’s the Revered Al, a character straight out of the pages of Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man. A demagogue with the ear of the president and attorney general, he’s no minor player. No wonder he hasn’t been collared for the 4.5 million in back taxes his various organizations are said to owe. O’Reilly thinks he’s the most hated man in America right now and he may be right. He’s certainly in competition with the KKK of old for outright race incitement, although he hasn’t gone as far as lynching, unless you count the Tawana Brawley case, which was pretty close to that.

But the real top of the Ferguson Hall of Shame goes to the people who brought us Ferguson from the beginning. I mean the real beginning. I mean… what happened to black America in the post-civil rights era? Why has such a wonderful group of people who fought so hard against a racist society and won, who brought so much to American (and world) culture had the guts torn out of their community? Why is what was once one of our most family-oriented groups now virtually without family, seventy percent of their babies born out of wedlock? That was unheard of when I was a young civil rights worker in the sixties. And the endless black on black crime? Where did that come from? What caused that? Forget Brown. Forget Wilson. They’re trivial by comparison. Those are the real questions.

I submit that some of the answer is above — it’s part Al Sharpton (and his ilk) and part the New York Times. When I say the Times, I mean the liberal ideology for which they remain the standard bearer, even in their weakened state. They lead the way for the dependent welfare state that has pushed generation after generation of black people deeper and deeper into self hatred and shame, the inevitable psychological result of the welfare state, culminating on the streets of Ferguson and across the country today. I’m sure they would scoff, if they or their fans read what I just wrote. Simon’s just an apostate, to be ignored. But when it comes to civil rights, more than most of them, I have been there and done that. I was there in the sixties and I was, to my shame, a financial supporter of the Black Panthers. I’m not a young guy and I have seen a lot. And nothing I have seen, after all this time, is sadder than Ferguson.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; bloods; darrelwilson; ferguson; gangs; liberalism; newyorkslimes; rogersimon

1 posted on 11/27/2014 4:20:05 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Dorian Johnson.

He lied about the hands up.

What’s his home address?


2 posted on 11/27/2014 4:32:30 PM PST by NoLibZone (I voted for Mitt. The lesser of 2 evils religious argument put a black nationalist in the W.H.)
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To: Kaslin
"it’s part Al Sharpton (and his ilk) and part the New York Times. When I say the Times, I mean the liberal ideology for which they remain the standard bearer, even in their weakened state. They lead the way for the dependent welfare state that has pushed generation after generation of black people deeper and deeper into self hatred and shame, the inevitable psychological result of the welfare state, culminating on the streets of Ferguson and across the country today."

There it is in a nutshell.

3 posted on 11/27/2014 4:43:53 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Kaslin
Simon’s just an apostate

Better late than never.

4 posted on 11/27/2014 4:45:20 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Kaslin

Good to the point article.


5 posted on 11/27/2014 4:54:24 PM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Kaslin

Related:

I hope the protestors keep blocking traffic.

There are few things people hate more than being impeded when driving.


6 posted on 11/27/2014 4:56:47 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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7 posted on 11/27/2014 6:07:38 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin
And then there’s Brown’s stepfather who looks about five years older than Brown himself and exhorted the crowds to “Burn the bitch down.” Geraldo wants him indicted, which says a lot.

Brown's stepfather SHOULD be indicted... Is the the step father the gang member or is the father or both? Any rumor on the mother being a gang member?

8 posted on 11/27/2014 6:17:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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To: GOPJ

Acording to the article at the link, the stepfather is & the mother is involved.

This guy has some good stuff & he’s been right a lot, so I tend to trust him. BTW, it’s not the little green footballs guy of the same name.

http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-michaelbrown-stepfather-inciting-ferguson-race-riot-blood-gangbanger/


9 posted on 11/27/2014 6:32:37 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Kaslin

In the state of Missouri it soon will be open season on New York Slimes reporters. A whiff of grape will put them and their running dogs back into the requirements of Civil Society.


10 posted on 11/27/2014 6:45:04 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: leapfrog0202
A police officer named “Dan” with decades on the force and connected to Ferguson chief of police Tom Jackson confirmed that Head and the Brown family are bloods.(from your link - btw thanks for the link)

If there's a rapist and a child killer in the 'family' maybe Time Magazine will make them 'family of the year'...

11 posted on 11/27/2014 6:47:32 PM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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To: GOPJ

You’re welcome GOPJ. I have been following his work on Twitter and his website for a while now. He’s had some real scoops.

He called out the NYT reporter & the other one, forgot the paper & name, on Twitter by posting their addresses also. NYT took down the Tweet (lmost immediately) where they gave out Darren Wilson’s address & photo of his home.


12 posted on 11/27/2014 6:56:07 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Kaslin

13 posted on 11/27/2014 8:12:23 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: leapfrog0202
He called out the NYT reporter & the other one, forgot the paper & name, on Twitter by posting their addresses also. NYT took down the Tweet (almost immediately) where they gave out Darren Wilson’s address & photo of his home.

Pretty impressive.... Again - thanks for sharing.

14 posted on 11/27/2014 8:41:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Stephanopoulos is a snake in the grass and a dem operative. Wilson should never have trusted him.)
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To: Kaslin

The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.

Proverbs 13:5

15 posted on 11/28/2014 4:27:30 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Check out the “wife-beaters”: great fashion statement. I wonder if these “folks” wear their pants around their knees.


16 posted on 11/28/2014 4:41:55 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Kaslin
I think what the left is doing is to build within the psyche of America's police this "us versus them" mentality that has led to sporadic incidents of police getting very out of hand. I also think that the left is building an "us versus them" mentality in the black community.

Limited violence and disorder are in the interest of statists everywhere because an enlarged police state is in their interest.

17 posted on 11/28/2014 7:11:11 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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To: windsorknot

Two out of three. It’s considered an unflattering look for the larger gentleman.


18 posted on 11/29/2014 3:51:22 AM PST by steve8714 ("Burn it down for Michael Brown??")
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