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The official White House photograph of the Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Crowley and President Obama beer moment by Pete Souza (poor Biden, left out again)
Now that beers have been had by Henry Louis Gates Jr, James Crowley and President Obama, now we've entered the post-beer summit phase. Such as brewery Sam Adams being thrilled that the Harvard academic chose its beer (founder Jim Koch said, "After all, Boston is our home and home to both of the president’s guests. I’m honored that the president chose to serve Professor Gates an American craft beer"), funny headlines (“TOUCH OF GLASS” — New York Daily News) and an expert analyzing the body language of the three men plus Vice President Biden (Crowley: defense; Gates: conciliatory; Obama: relaxed; Biden: odd man out).
And then there's Rudy Giuliani, giving his two cents to Sean Hannity: "He's actually right. It is teachable. Here's the lesson: Shut up."
The Caucus spoke to Gates after the drink. The Harvard scholar, whose anger over being arrested for disorderly conduct on his property seemed to have been tempered, said he appreciated the police more, "The most important thing I learned, I learned about police officers the stresses and realities of the excellent job the police do every day. At the same time, racial profiling is a very dangerous thing with a long history, and we have to make Americans more sensitive to the realities of racial profiling." And Crowley, after the beer summit, told reporters, "What you had today was two gentlemen who agreed to disagree on a particular issue. We didn’t spend too much time dwelling on the past, and we decided to look forward."
Gates said he and Crowley will meet for lunch in Boston in the near future. And, no, the men didn't apologize to each other; Gates surmised, "We didn’t go there. The president didn’t ask us to apologize. I think probably as we get to know each other, sooner or later we will revisit his perceptions of what happened that day and my perceptions. This wasn’t the time or place to do that. We’ll do it one on one."
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Oh yeah, for sure, I really look to Giuliani for insight on racial sensitivity and good community-police relations. For sure.
Exactly.
Amen.
Just came in here to say what they said. Couldn't be more right.
That's the truth.
what was the issue that they agreed to disagree on?
Rudy/Palin 2012!! Mr. 4 years and done doesn't stand a chance!
Dear Rudy,
Yes keep mentioning NYC, a city that now absolutely loathes you for whoring our name around with the GOP for the past 8 years. Here's some friendly NYC advice: Shut the fuck up.
Please go back to your square state. I don't particularly like Rudy but he did clean up NYC so people like you would not be too scared to move here. Obviously you were not here in the late 80's.
Correction: Rudy would like people to think he cleaned up NYC. Crime rates actually started going down under programs initiated by David Dinkins and his police commissioner Lee Brown.
Another post another thought. How about the economy surged under Rudy, nothing cuts crime like a good economy. All that quality of life helped cut crime but it rode the economic tide. Without that ride it would have been a failure.
But keeping all those devils from drinking on the stoop did help me sleep at night!
That was because of the economy stupid. Crime rates everywhere went down but Rudy targeted certain neighborhoods to clean up. In these areas the crime rates went down tremendously even when compared to the national average
Does this mean that Sharpton will back down on his vow for revenge?
Yes, Rudy should take his own advice and shut up.
Sam Adams beer founder said: "I’m honored that the president chose to serve Professor Gates an American craft beer".
Actually, NPR announced that originally Gates planned to drink Red Stripe. Gee, Jamaicans may make good pot, but drinking Jamaican beer is like drinking Jamaican water.
Because Red Stripe is made by black people is reason enough for this race-baiter to initially chose it. Probably some adviser told him to cool it with the racial warfare and get an American beer.
Hey moron, the facts are that the Whitehouse only serves American beers, this since the Johnson administration. The racial warfare is being waged by the right wing nutjobs such as yourslef, in order to distract from real issues like healthcare and the environment.
The facts are that Gates preferred to drink some piss-poor Jamaican beer because he is a race-baiter who appeals to knee-jerk Politically Correctoids reactionaries like yourself.
I suggest you have a drink to chill out because you have absolutely no knowledge of my views on health care reform, little boy.
Red Stripe is actually pretty good, mon.
I'd choose Red Stripe over Sam Adams any day.
I'd just rather not drink if those are the only two choices.
Leave it to Rudy to take the one silver lining of a terrible incident and twist it. It seems to be the recurring theme of his career.
"And also, shut up when a cop is asking you questions... My father taught me that."
Wasn't your father also a piece of shit petty crook, Rudy?
The Gates-Crowley incident was not "Racial Profiling," it was "Contempt of Cop," a frequent occurrence with a high incidence of race and class bias. If they are wise, Dr. Gates and Sgt. Crowley will do a joint study of the “Contempt of Cop” issue. Sgt. Crowley (who taught a class on racial profiling at the Lowell Police Academy) could instruct officers how to avoid this abuse of discretionary police powers of arrest.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/beer-summit-hangover/
Dear Rudy, We were hoping your prostate cancer would have killed your ass by now...