“The women’s movement used to be about honoring for women the same God-given rights that our country honored for men. It used to be about dignity and hope. It used to be about respecting women by respecting their choices — whether it is to be a nuclear engineer or a stay-at-home mom — not denigrating them when they aren’t sufficiently like men. And it used to be about respecting women’s unique role in creating and sustaining life.”
— Sarah Palin, America by Heart
FBI Report: Remember That Predicted Wave of Tea Party Hate Crimes?
Despite warnings about “right wing extremists” from the Department of Homeland Security, the Great Hate Tsunami of 2009 failed to materialize:
The number of hate crime incidents in the United States reported for 2009 came down from 2008, according to data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday.
“While the number of law enforcement agencies submitting data to us increased — topping off at 14,222 — the number of hate crime incidents reported for 2009 (6,604) was down from 2008,” the agency reported.
The Southern Poverty Law Center — which has spent the past two years shrieking about an alleged proliferation of anti-Latino, anti-Muslim and anti-black hate groups — today expanded its list of anti-gay hate groups to include both the American Family Association and the Family Research Council.
Something about a little boy who cried wolf . . .
UPDATE: Longtime readers will probably not be surprised to see Charles Johnson use the SPLC list (which applies its “hate” label to the Massachusetts conservative group MassResistance) as an excuse to take a cheap shot at Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit:
Let’s pause to consider this typically stupid ad hominem — i.e., Jim/”Dim” — before moving on to examine how utterly false is Johnson’s characterization of MassResistance.
The “teach school kids to fist” remark relates to the role of MassResistance in publicizing a 2000 conference at Tufts University, sponsored by the Boston chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). What transpired at that event — with state officials telling an audience of high school and middle school students about the practice of “fisting” — was described in a Weekly Standard article by Rod Dreher.
The 2000 Tufts conference became newsworthy in 2009 after Obama named as his “safe schools czar” Kevin Jennings, who had been keynote speaker at that event.
So you see that Johnson’s characterization of MassResistance as “the ‘gays teach school kids how to fist’ bunch” — as if the group were demonizing all homosexuals for the actions of GLSEN activists — is completely inaccurate. MassResistance is a parent-sponsored organization arguing (as they have every right to do) about educational policy in Massachusetts public schools.
Surely parents ought to be able to object to teaching school kids about “fisting” without being accused of “hate.” And surely Jim Hoft ought to be able to blog about the controversy surrounding the czardom of Kevin Jennings without being derogated as “Dim.”
UPDATE II: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch notes this from another story about the FBI report: “Anti-Muslim crimes were a distant second to crimes against Jews, making up just eight percent of the hate crimes driven by religious intolerance.” Dan Blatt at Gay Patriot awaits MSM headlines about “the rising tide of anti-Semitism.”
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VIDEO: Whoopi Goldberg Mocks Victim of Charlie Sheen Rampage on ‘View’
In-freaking-credible!
It’s not really surprising that Whoopi defends Charlie Sheen for abusing women — she sided with Charlie against his ex-wife Denise Richards — but is Whoopi not even the least bit curious about the accusation that Sheen “started yelling racial slurs” at Capri Anderson?
Whoopi seems to believe that, in any conflict between a woman and a wealthy, famous, powerful man, the woman has no rights whatsoever — and that the woman’s side of the story should never be taken seriously by her fellow women.
That kind of enabling attitude toward a man who clearly has chronic substance-abuse problems — to say nothing of his well-documented history of sexual misconduct — is extremely dangerous. Sheen acts the way he acts because his enablers prevent him from ever having to suffer the full consequences of his actions.
Is Charlie Sheen going to have to kill somebody before his celebrity enablers stop making excuses for him?
UPDATE: Let’s imagine that Charlie Sheen continues his downward trajectory of intoxication and violent misogyny. What will the headlines be? And what will Whoopi Goldberg’s reaction be on The View?
March 4, 2011
SHEEN ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
Prostitute Hospitalized After Beating
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, March 7, 2011:
“Hey, boys will be boys, y’know what I’m saying? You can’t believe a word these street-walkers say . . . Probably fell down the steps and now she’s just trying to hustle some money out the deal.”
July 19, 2011
CAR CRASH SIDELINES CBS STAR
Sheen Injuries ‘Minor’ After Wrong-Way Collision;
Passenger, 3 Others in Critical Condition at Hospital
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, July 21, 2011
“Look at the police report, Joy. It clearly says this stupid hooker spilled her drink on Charlie’s leather seats. Do you have any idea what it costs to clean leather seats on a Benz? So this slut spills her whiskey and Charlie took the wrong ramp — it could happen to anybody!”
January 2, 2012
POLICE END STRIP-CLUB STANDOFF
Sheen Releases Hostages, Arrested Following
SWAT Raid on Scene of Star’s New Year’s Party
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, January 3, 2012
“You’re not being fair, Barbara. When Charlie Sheen pays for a lap dance, he has every right to expect what they call a ‘happy ending,’ OK? So maybe Charlie overreacted a little bit, but all the hostages got out alive, didn’t they? No harm, no foul, I say.”
October 22, 2012
POLICE QUESTION SHEEN
IN MISSING STARLET CASE
Family Asks Public’s Assistance
in Finding 19-Year-Old Actress
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, October 25, 2012:
“He’s innocent until proven guilty, Elizabeth. They had a little date and Charlie said he dropped her off at her apartment, and we haven’t seen any evidence that contradicts Charlie’s story. Besides, how do we know anything actually happened to that dumb bimbo, huh? Maybe she just ran off to Cabo to party with one of her other boyfriends and didn’t think to tell anybody she was leaving.”
November 7, 2012
SHEEN INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
Detectives Say Evidence Connects Actor
To Disappearances of Three Other Women
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, November 9, 2012:
“Oh, give me a break! We’re talking about circumstantial evidence here. And what’s the big deal about duct tape and a ski mask, anyway? Puh-leeze!”
December 5, 2012
BODIES FOUND IN REMOTE CANYON
Hikers Stumble Onto Skeletal Remains
Near Vacation Cabin Owned by Charlie Sheen
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, December 6, 2012:
“Bones turn up in these hills all the time, is all I’m saying. They don’t even know that these remains are human, OK?”
August 24, 2013
JURY CONVICTS SHEEN
IN SERIAL MURDERS
After Weeks of Gruesome Testimony,
Actor Convicted of Killing Four Women
Whoopi Goldberg, The View, August 26, 2013:
“Those no-good bitches deserved to die.”
Lame-Duck Democrats Trying to Pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Like the Killer of Democratic Intern Chandra Levy
OK, I’m not sure Ingmar Guandique would qualify under the DREAM Act, but you get the point. And if you don’t get the point, Michelle Malkin will explain it to you — and she reminds you that the media are still “whitewashing the illegal immigration angle from the story.”
Liberals — including Republican open-borders advocates who try to claim they’re “conservative” — refuse to recognize the common-sense logic here: Illegal aliens have, by the act of illegally entering the country, demonstrated their contempt for U.S. law. It is therefore not surprising that illegal aliens, as a group, have higher rates of every serious crime — from DUI to assault to rape to murder — than do native-born citizens or legal immigrants. Yet by blurring the distinction between illegal aliens and legal immigrants, and by relentlessly playing the race card, liberals promote the falsehood that those who advocate stronger enforcement of immigration laws are xenophobic bigots. Continue reading Lame-Duck Democrats Trying to Pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Like the Killer of Democratic Intern Chandra Levy →
Maxine and Barney, Sitting in a Tree . . .
. . . K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
A newly discovered exchange of e-mails led the House ethics committee on Friday to delay its trial of Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat accused of helping steer bailout money to a bank in which her husband owned shares.
The e-mails are between Mikael Moore, Ms. Waters’s chief of staff, and members of the House Financial Services Committee, on which Ms. Waters serves. The e-mails show that Mr. Moore was actively engaged in discussing with committee members details of a bank bailout bill apparently after Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. The bailout bill had provisions that ultimately benefited OneUnited, a minority-owned bank in which her husband, Sidney Williams, owned about $350,000 in shares. . . .
The subcommittee’s original report found that in early September 2008, Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and the committee’s chairman, told Ms. Waters not to get involved with any issues involving OneUnited and that Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. . . .
A person directly involved in the investigation said the new e-mails could show that members of her staff continued to work on the bank’s behalf.
“It may directly contradict a bit of Maxine’s story, if not the actual facts, the way she has told it,” said the person, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the trial.
So if Barney told Maxine to stay away from the OneUnited “issues,” yet Maxine’s chief-of-staff kept “discussing [the bank] with committee members” — of which Barney was the chairman — will Barney be called to testify against Maxine? And what else might be included in the e-mails that will be made public in the course of this investigation?
Ed Morrissey has much, much more at Hot Air. There’s also a Memeorandum thread with additional blog commentary from YID With LID, Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane and Alana Goodman.
Porn Star Date Says Charlie Sheen ‘Started Yelling Racial Slurs’ in NYC Rampage
A few weeks ago, police were called to a New York City hotel room where Charlie Sheen was found intoxicated and naked, having caused thousands of dollars of damage to the room. Sheen subsequently dismissed the incident as “one bad night” and said the media was blowing it out of proportion.
Turns out that Sheen’s “date” for the night was 22-year-old porn star Christina Walsh, who goes by the name Capri Anderson, whose online porn site is operated by a company called “Medium Pimpin.” She was paid as Sheen’s escort for the evening:
Capri Anderson was hired to escort Charlie Sheen to dinner, but the night ended with her locked in a hotel bathroom in fear for her life, she says.
“Towards the latter half of the night, it got really bad. He started yelling racial slurs,” Anderson, an adult film actress, tells ABC News. “But it wasn’t until he put his hands around my neck that I really thought to myself, you have gotten yourself in a bad, bad situation.”
What “racial slurs” was Charlie yelling? Hollywood is happy to tolerate a famous star with a penchant for booze, drugs, hookers and violence. But racism? That’s intolerable.
UPDATE: There’s video of the “Good Morning America” interview and excerpts like this:
“He was calling me a whore a lot. And he was yelling things like, you F-ing bitch. If you don’t come out here, I’m going to kill you. If I get in there, you’re going to be sorry. If I get in there, you . . . whore, you whore, whore. Like he just keep screaming and slamming on the door,” she said.
As to the term “whore”: (a) Capri Anderson’s business is having sex in front of cameras for money; and (b) her fee for escorting Sheen to dinner was reportedly $3,500. There seems to be some dispute as to whether other services — beyond mere social companionship — were included for that fee.
We still haven’t learned what sort of “racial slurs” Sheen was (allegedly) shouting, or in what context he was shouting them.
UPDATE II: Sheen’s manager Mark Burg, who is also executive producer of Two and a Half Men, cleverly seeks to undermine Capri Anderson’s credibility: “This is a woman who, for the right amount of money, sleeps with strangers.”
Uh, Mr. Burg, isn’t it a well-documented fact that your client is a man who spends money to sleep with strangers?
Why should we believe him instead of her? Because he’s a rich Hollywood celebrity and she’s not?
TSA Boss Explains Groping Grandma Necessary Because U.S. Doesn’t ‘Profile’
Gateway Pundit has CNN video with TSA chief John Pistole telling Candy Crowley:
So when a 7-year-old girl says, “Grandmama, they touched you on your special girl spots,” you know why.
Obama’s not listening to you. He’s listening to “experts.”
All this, the New York Times would have you believe, is about a “debate over the proper balance of security and privacy.” But the grannies and children being groped in airports are not a threat to anyone’s security, so there’s nothing to balance.
LIVE AT FIVE – 11.22.10
TOP NEWS
Scans And Groping Here To Stay, Says TSA Chief
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla), future head of the House Transportation Committee: “I don’t think the rollout was good and the application is even worse. This does need to be refined.”
NZ Mine Drama Enters Fourth Day
Still no word on when rescue bid will be made
Euro, Asian Stocks Rise After Ireland Seeks Bailout
Irish seek help from EU, IMF to save banks
POLITICS
Congressional Dems Worry That Obama Will Cave To GOP
Rep Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) said, “We’re beginning to revisit our relationship with the White House. I think we’ve got to push harder from our position to do what Democrats need.”
Hillary Clinton Says She’s Done With Politics
Asian Voters Offer Hope To Battered California GOP
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Eye Drug Shows Promise In Studies
HK Stocks Fall As PRC Moves To Prevent Real Estate Bubble
Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch Prepare iPad-Only Newspaper
Samsung Galaxy Tab Now Available From AT&T, Sprint, Verizon
SPORTS
Manning Gets The Numbers, But Brady Leaves With The Win
31-28 Patriots. Just like old times.
McCoy’s 50-Yard TD Run Lifts Eagles Over Giants To NFC East Lead
Boise State Closes Gap With TCU In BCS Standings
Warriors Crushed By Lakers As Gasol Has Perfect Night
Jimmie Johnson: Second Only To Earnhardt And Petty Now?
Terry Collins To Be Mets’ Skipper in 2011
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Miley Cyrus Drops Bret Michaels Song From AMA Performance After Rumors
Yeah, probably not the best time to be singing “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”.
Lindsay Lohan Replaced By Malin Akerman In Lovelace Biopic
Desperate Times For “Housewives” As Teri Hatcher Quits
Deathly Hallows Part 1 Sets Record For Harry Potter Franchise
FOREIGNERS
Bosworth: New Nork Nuke Plant Nettlesome
PRC Claims All Miners From Sichuan Mine Rescued
NATO Leaders Agree To New Start With Russia
Haiti Death Toll Climbs Above 1200
BLOGS & STUFF
C4P: It’s Palin’s Party, And The Establishment Is A Jealous Ex-Lover
Gateway Pundit: Jimmy Carter – FOX Commentators Have Deliberately Distorted The News
Althouse: A Madison Liberal Tries To Understand The 2010 Elections
Dennis The Peasant: None Dare Call It Thinking, Part II
Verum Serum: Leftist Media’s Selective Outrage
Stop Shouting!: My Rebuttal To A Progressive Who Admonished Me To Play Nice
— compiled by Wombat-socho