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Bill Cosby reacts to Gates incident

Posted by Bill Cosby on Fox News

on Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:30

Comedian/actor Bill Cosby was inside the FOX25 News studios today and shared his thoughts on the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Barack Obama’s “stupidity” comment about police.

Ed Note: President Obama called the police stupid in his Press Conference last night. FYI one of the attending officers was black, another Hispanic, the arresting officer was White. 

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Obama’s comment: “My understanding is at that point Professor Gates is already in his house. The police officer comes in, I’m sure there’s some exchange of words, but my understanding is, is that Professor Gates then shows his ID to show that this is his house. And at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct — charges which are later dropped.

Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.

… That doesn’t lessen the incredible progress that has been made. I am standing here as testimony to the progress that’s been made.

And yet the fact of the matter is, is that this still haunts us. And even when there are honest misunderstandings, the fact that blacks and Hispanics are picked up more frequently and often time for no cause casts suspicion even when there is good cause.”

…from the arresting officer who is white:

In an interview today with WBZ radio, Crowley said that while he “didn’t vote for” Obama, he supports “the president of the United States 110 percent.” But that does not mean he agreed with Obama’s comment that Cambridge police “acted stupidly.”

“I think he is way off base wading into a local issue before knowing all the facts,” Crowley said.

This morning on WEEI, Crowley spoke for 22 minutes and offered his most detailed public explanation of why he handcuffed the renowned professor of African-American studies.

“He was arrested after following me outside the house, continuing the tirade, even after being warned multiple times, probably a few more times than the average person would have gotten,” Crowley said.

The hosts asked: “How many times?

“He was cautioned in the house, meaning calm down, lower your voice,” Crowley said. “Once we got outside in front of the general public and the police officers that were assembled there, two warnings, the second warning with me holding a set of handcuffs in my hand. It was something I really didn’t want to do, but the professor at any point in time could have resolved the issue by quieting down and/or going back in his house.”

Crowley continued, “There are so many things in this incident that keep me scratching my head wondering. I apologize, I was not aware who professor Gates was. And when I read the name off the card, it wasn’t like I said, ‘Oh, wow, that’s professor Gates.’ I’m still just amazed that somebody of his level of intelligence could stoop to such a level and berate me, accuse me of being a racist, of racial profiling, and speaking about my mother. It’s just beyond words.”

During the interview, the radio hosts made it clear how they felt about the arrest of Gates, telling Crowley that he did not “have to defend your character here because there is no reason to, you didn’t do anything wrong.”

“God knows the public is supporting you,” one of the hosts said. “Maybe not the elites, maybe not the president of the United States, but the reaction on message boards, the reaction on talk shows, and just people on the street — they are on your side, officer, you can be sure of that.”

Cost of the Bailout =$23 Trillion Dollars! For perspective:

The country has not existed for a trillion seconds, Western civilization has not been around a trillion seconds. One trillion seconds ago – 31,688 years – Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe. If you spent  $1every single second it would take 728,824 YEARS to spend the whole $23 trillon.

“U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial system, including $6.8 trillion in aid offered by the Federal Reserve, Barofsky said in a report released today.

“TARP has evolved into a program of unprecedented scope, scale and complexity,” Barofsky said in testimony prepared for a hearing tomorrow before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Costs include $2.3 trillion in programs offered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., $7.4 trillion in TARP and other aid from the Treasury and $7.2 trillion in federal money for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, credit unions, Veterans Affairs and other federal programs, he said.

Wow . . .

…from Barry Ritholtz in his Website The Big Picture

We already know how little regard Jennifer Lynch has for the truth. She put it in her grostesque, unsolicited memo to Parliament last month when she suggested that truth be removed from the Criminal Code as a defence to the charge of hate propaganda.

What human being — not what politician, not what lawyer, but what human being — would propose that telling the truth should be a crime in Canada? What an execrable woman; what an embarrassment to Stephen Harper’s Conservative government; what an embarrassment to anyone who actually cares about real human rights; what a shame for all Canadians.

…..more HERE.

The mustangs are almost too apt a symbol of where we’re all headed.

On Friday July 17, the House of Representatives met to debate . . . Go on, take a guess: Health care? The cap-and-tax racket? Stimulus Two? No, none of the above. Don’t worry, they’re still spending your money. Wild horses couldn’t stop them doing that.

And, as a matter of fact, that’s the correct answer: wild horses. On Friday, the House voted on the Restore Our American Mustangs Act — or ROAM.  Like all acronymically cute legislation, its name bears little relation to what it actually does: It’s not about “restoring” mustangs. The federal Bureau of Land Management aims for a manageable population of 27,000 wild mustangs. Currently, there are 36,000, and the population doubles every four or five years. To prevent things getting even more out of hand, the BLM keeps another 30,000 mustangs in holding pens — or, if you prefer, managed-care facilities. That’s to say, under federal management, one in every two “wild” horses now lives in government housing. The American mustang population is road-testing the impending demographic profile of Japan and Germany: one worker for every retiree.

….read full article HERE.

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