QUOTES OF THE DAY - AT 9:38 P.M. ET:  From Harry Stein in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, on President Obama's "teachable moment":

This time, more than ever, we’re learning other lessons. One of them: for all the talk from his starry-eyed acolytes, in the media and elsewhere, about Obama’s being “post-racial,” the president clings to the discredited and deeply damaging view of America as fundamentally racist, seeing his fellow blacks as perpetual victims justifiably suspicious of cops and other establishment authority figures. So when it comes to race, it’s facts be damned.

And...

Perhaps the most telling media moment during the Gates brouhaha was the observation by an NPR anchor—only slight paraphrasing here—that opinion was divided over whether the police were to blame or there was fault on both sides.

Very insightful.  It was beyond the NPR guy's comprehension that some people might think there was a third possibility - that only Professor Gates was to blame.  Ideas like that would not be acceptable at National Public Radio.  Would you want this guy on a jury?

July 28, 2009