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Michelle Malkin: 'Outrage Over Racism Is Outrageous'
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Here’s Malkin on her latest rampage:
NAACP race-monger: Obama was "lynched" by a cartoon!
By Michelle Malkin • July 17, 2008 08:58 AM
Geez, I thought that the two Texas dunces who protested the phrase "black holes" had won the grievance-mongering morons of the year award.
They've got competition.
Enter Myrlie Evers-Williams, NAACP official and widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. She is decrying the New Yorker cartoon of the Obamas as a "lynching." Hey, never mind that it's the critics of Obama who are the subject of the cartoon's "lynching." Evers-Williams' cartoon comprehension score: F-. Some people to need to be kept away from the microphone.
The incident, at a Shakopee, Minnesota amusement park, was apparently very nasty, and seven of the eight young men arrested are reportedly facing felony assault charges.
And then John Hinderaker of Powerline (still and forever Time Magazine’s 2004 blog of the year) posts a picture of the main suspect, descends into archly quote-marked terms like “homies” and “men,” and asserts that it’s time to start shooting people:
Initially, the local media downplayed the story, presumably because of the race of the criminals. But today, the Minneapolis Star Tribune broke down and covered it. [...]
The story is an infuriating one in several ways, but what strikes me most forcibly is that it would have been a good thing if a few armed citizens had happened by while the assault was in progress. It’s no surprise that the victim’s wife and daughters couldn’t protect him from eight “men,” and apparently [the Valleyfair amusement park's] security force is unarmed. So the optimal outcome here would have been for one or more normal citizens to pull a firearm, shoot a couple of the criminals, and hold the rest until the police arrived. Criminals who carry out outrageous assaults in public do so on the assumption that passersby will not be able to stop them. Absent firearms, that assumption is reasonable. So let’s hear it for concealed carry.
[...] Against a gang such as the one that is now on the loose in the Twin Cities, only armed citizens can be effective.
And that, dear readers, is what we call self-satire.
Obama needs to grow a pair. This woman needs to grow a brain.
Tagged as: obama, wing-nuts, new yorker cover
Gavin McNett is a writer and designer in the New York area.
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