USDA chant outrage. Video. The Five. Fox News, February 15, 2013.
Megyn Kelly Discusses Government’s Taxpayer-Funded Cultural Sensitivity Training. Video. Fox News Insider, February 15, 2013.
USDA Cultural Sensitivity Training Program Redefines “Minorities” as “Emerging Majorities.” By Daniel Greenfield. FrontPageMagazine, February 15, 2013.
JW Releases Confidential USDA Videos Revealing “Cultural Sensitivity Training” Program. Judicial Watch, February 14, 2013.
USDA Staffers Chanting “The Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens.” Complete Video. Andrew Sheets, February 15, 2013. YouTube.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Did the Left Create Chris Dorner? By Ben Shapiro.
Did the Left Create Chris Dorner? By Ben Shapiro. Townhall.com, February 15, 2013.
Understanding Christopher Dorner. By Matthew Cunningham-Cook. Salon, February 14, 2013.
Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner. By Charles M. Blow. New York Times, February 15, 2013.
The hero cult of Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A. cop turned cop killer. By Joe O’Connor. National Post, February 14, 2013.
Marc Lamont Hill: Dorner’s “Exciting” Rampage Like “Watching Django Unchained In Real Life.” By Tim Hains. Real Clear Politics, February 13, 2013.
Crazy to Everyone but the New York Times. By Heather MacDonald. City Journal, February 12, 2013.
Heather MacDonald can’t justify Dorner’s rampage. Audio. LauraIngraham.com, February 14, 2013. Also find it here.
Shapiro:
When Adam Lanza murdered 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the media jumped to the position that the NRA’s “gun culture” was responsible. They suggested that violent video games and movies had to be curbed.
But when it came to Dorner, the media suggested that his manifesto meant nothing – nothing! Piers Morgan blamed Dorner’s “deranged criminality,” although he said nothing of the sort about Loughner or Lanza.
If the manifesto did mean something, the media said, it was that Dorner was essentially right about the LAPD. CNN reported, “LA cops stalked by suspect – and a brutal past.” The New York Times reported, “The killings and Mr. Dorner’s online manifesto have reopened old wounds for some black residents here, even as they condemned the violence.”
The media never once stopped to consider that it was their coverage of the LAPD that may have created the cultural background noise for Dorner’s belief system. Liberal Hollywood and the media regularly portray law enforcement as a bastion of bigotry and nastiness. Every depiction of LAPD in the last 20 years has focused on their supposed hatred for minorities, their corruption, their violence. If we are going to suppose that culture creates criminals, then leftist culture is responsible for Dorner.
In truth, we are all responsible for our own actions. But the double standard of the media is truly stunning. Next time they try to claim that Constitutional conservatism is responsible for mass shootings, the media ought to be reminded of Christopher Dorner.
Cunningham-Cook:
Dorner’s reaction is partly rooted in a corrosive version of American masculinity — his response to institutional corruption is uniquely Jack Bauer and John Wayne. Gratuitous violence included. Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone mad on racism and war, of a state that aggressively punishes dissent, of an intellectual milieu where telling the truth has become a dangerous act. There was no internal institutional outlet for him to address injustices against him: the blue line prevented that.
Understanding Christopher Dorner. By Matthew Cunningham-Cook. Salon, February 14, 2013.
Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner. By Charles M. Blow. New York Times, February 15, 2013.
The hero cult of Christopher Dorner, the ex-L.A. cop turned cop killer. By Joe O’Connor. National Post, February 14, 2013.
Marc Lamont Hill: Dorner’s “Exciting” Rampage Like “Watching Django Unchained In Real Life.” By Tim Hains. Real Clear Politics, February 13, 2013.
Crazy to Everyone but the New York Times. By Heather MacDonald. City Journal, February 12, 2013.
Heather MacDonald can’t justify Dorner’s rampage. Audio. LauraIngraham.com, February 14, 2013. Also find it here.
Shapiro:
When Adam Lanza murdered 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the media jumped to the position that the NRA’s “gun culture” was responsible. They suggested that violent video games and movies had to be curbed.
But when it came to Dorner, the media suggested that his manifesto meant nothing – nothing! Piers Morgan blamed Dorner’s “deranged criminality,” although he said nothing of the sort about Loughner or Lanza.
If the manifesto did mean something, the media said, it was that Dorner was essentially right about the LAPD. CNN reported, “LA cops stalked by suspect – and a brutal past.” The New York Times reported, “The killings and Mr. Dorner’s online manifesto have reopened old wounds for some black residents here, even as they condemned the violence.”
The media never once stopped to consider that it was their coverage of the LAPD that may have created the cultural background noise for Dorner’s belief system. Liberal Hollywood and the media regularly portray law enforcement as a bastion of bigotry and nastiness. Every depiction of LAPD in the last 20 years has focused on their supposed hatred for minorities, their corruption, their violence. If we are going to suppose that culture creates criminals, then leftist culture is responsible for Dorner.
In truth, we are all responsible for our own actions. But the double standard of the media is truly stunning. Next time they try to claim that Constitutional conservatism is responsible for mass shootings, the media ought to be reminded of Christopher Dorner.
Cunningham-Cook:
Dorner’s reaction is partly rooted in a corrosive version of American masculinity — his response to institutional corruption is uniquely Jack Bauer and John Wayne. Gratuitous violence included. Dorner is a wholesale product of a society gone mad on racism and war, of a state that aggressively punishes dissent, of an intellectual milieu where telling the truth has become a dangerous act. There was no internal institutional outlet for him to address injustices against him: the blue line prevented that.
Larry Summers Says We Need to Get Used to the Idea of Bigger Government. By Jordan Weissmann.
Larry Summers Says We Need to Get Used to the Idea of Bigger Government. By Jordan Weissmann. The Atlantic, November 14, 2012.
Larry Summers on Fiscal Cliff, Taxes, Health Care. Video. Washington Ideas Forum. Bloomberg TV, November 14, 2012.
Larry Summers on Fiscal Cliff, Taxes, Health Care. Video. Washington Ideas Forum. Bloomberg TV, November 14, 2012.
Is the U.S. Ready to Fight Syrian Rebels? By Michael Rubin.
Is the U.S. Ready to Fight Syrian Rebels? By Michael Rubin. Commentary, February 14, 2013.
Lincoln Screenwriter Sees Obama as Revolutionary Messiah Reversing Reagan and Bush. By Rush Limbaugh.
Tony Kushner Proves My Point – Lincoln Screenwriter Sees Obama as Revolutionary Messiah Reversing Reagan and Bush. By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, February 15, 2013. Audio at DailyRushbo.
Tony Kushner discusses writing the Oscar nominated screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Video. Charlie Rose. PBS, February 14, 2013.
Tony Kushner discusses writing the Oscar nominated screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Video. Charlie Rose. PBS, February 14, 2013.
Saving the Republican Party. By Peter Wehner.
Saving the Republican Party. By Peter Wehner. Commentary, February 15, 2013.
How to Save the Republican Party. By Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner. Commentary, March 2013. Also find it here.
How to Save the Republican Party. By Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner. Commentary, March 2013. Also find it here.
The Palesinians Never Wanted Fayyadism. By Jonathan S. Tobin.
The Palestinians Never Wanted Fayyadism. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, February 14, 2013.
Salam Fayyad: The Success That Failed. By Roger Cohen. New York Times, February 14, 2013.
Salam Fayyad: The Success That Failed. By Roger Cohen. New York Times, February 14, 2013.
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