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Globe on Gates

  • Posted on July 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm

It is absolutely appalling for anyone to comment on this without all the details.  What detail would help us?  Maybe, the police report.  Oh, but the Boston Globe pulled it off their website because of what it reveals.  It is the media’s job to distribute facts for readers/viewers process on their own.  Hiding the facts speaks volumes. 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/07/23/boston-globe-scrubs-henry-louis-gates-arrest-report-website

I think Gates hasn’t filed a lawsuit because he knows he has no case.  He needs the media to stop harping on this issue, so that it fades from memory before people realize he never filed suit.  If backed into a corner, I think he’ll claim to take the moral high ground.  He’ll say he’s not filing a suit because he’s above the back-and-forth.  He’ll take credit for ending the cycle, being the bigger person and being forgiving.  He (and the Gov and the Pres) have forever tarnished the name of an accomplished, honest, respected officer.

Gates Arrest

  • Posted on July 23, 2009 at 3:21 am

Is it really appropriate for any of us to comment on this? Without all the details, (dare I say, with hardly ANY details) no one should be forming an opinion. We have learned a lot about our president this evening. He openly admitted he has no solid information, but he voices a reaction nonetheless.  How dare he say the Cambridge Police ‘acted stupidly’ without knowing what happened?  At the very least say one officer’s actions are in question.  Don’t drag down the whole force. 

What message did the president send?  It doesn’t matter what the facts are; just be outraged. 
I sincerely hope race was not a factor in Professor Gates’ arrest. But we don’t know yet.

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