Regarding Drudge and The Knockout Game, I told you guys, you're too easily led:
Um, a silly (but crafty) fedora-wearing dude, who's into chain-yanking "whitey" waaay more than disseminating news? (Like that word? "Disseminating." Yep, that's a three billion dollar word, right there. "He's so well-spoken,...") Matt Drudge is an instigator.
The Drudge Report stirs up trouble, at the expense of both blacks and whites, but knowing full-well blacks can least afford it - and, generally, blacks don't read it.
Run by America's current genius of journalism, proving what that's always meant at it's best,...
Well, in some ways Matt Drudge has been a genius -- if you look at his beginnings, and his "report"'s beginnings it's a wonder that anyone actually takes either seriously.
ReplyDeleteOne can be a genius at something without being necessarily wise or good.
However, that is exactly what has happened.
I really don't consider him conservative either, or liberal -- Mr. Drudge has always struck me as somebody who will do, say, promote whatever he thinks will serve him best in the future, and to devil with anything or anyone else.
PW
The big question, imhao, is: what has caused this wave of reportage from Drudge? I think he only works for his own advantage and toadies to anyone who will help that along...so what the interest being served by Matt Drudge's servicing?
These are of course the same contrarian things I used to say about Rush Limbaugh back when he first burst on the scene as well, so realize I could just be being a contrarian and a skeptic.
ReplyDeleteBut...I still get a feeling...
PW
Matt is welcome to do "his thing" by me.
ReplyDeleteI'm saying, like viewers of The Daily Show, to read THE DRUDGE REPORT as "news" - which is what conservatives are doing - is to misread him.
The eight Jewish people who were attacked since October in Crown Heights are not a trend and are not racially motivated attacks.
ReplyDeleteDrudge just made it up.
Good to know.
The problem is, imhao, that Matt Drudge is starting to believe what some of his fans think about him -- that he's some big journalistic truth teller.
ReplyDeleteBut he's just a guy making money off his schtick -- just like John Stewart. Probably a good idea for everybody to start remembering that, including him.
As for what's going on in Crown Heights -- that's Hasidic if memory serves, and there have been problems with tensions there for years. I'm not saying it's right, that people are getting beat up, but tensions in and around that community are not new.
PW
Do you know that neighborhood Mr. Thomas? Since you are so wise and learned, perhaps you can enlighten everyone?
ReplyDeleteAnd the problems around Crown Hts. have been going on since at least the 60s...and the blacks who live around there haven't always been the ones causing the trouble (some of the Haredi aren't exactly the easiest people to get along with, for anyone non-Haredi).
That there are tensions in that neighborhood again should not come as a surprise. That people are not looking at the whole picture should probably also not come as a surprise, and that some media outlets (ehem, Drudge) isn't telling the whole truth (and some people are buying what is insinuated on his site as the whole truth and nothing but) should also not come as too much of a surprise either...obviously.
PW
*my dad grew up in the neighborhood around 114 and Lex, but that isn't Brooklyn, so yeah, completely out of the loop
You mean the Hasidim are so law abiding and peaceful like this Mr. Thomas?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=684_1368166692
Or how about this?
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/brooklyn-hasidic-jew-charged-with-felony-hate-crime-after-attacking-f-ing-arabs-living-next-door/
Or these:
http://crownheights.info/general/1922/hasidic-jews-mob-streets-set-fires-in-brooklyn-protest/
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/150783/hasidic-man-to-be-tried-for-crown-heights-beating
http://www.voicesofny.org/2012/05/opinion-baltimore-violence-raises-questions-about-orthodox-jewish-patrol/
http://m.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/01/brooklyns-hasidim-and-playing-new-york-rules/4539/
And the funny thing is, that after saying how good the West Indian blacks were compared to America-American blacks...you all do know that the folks in Crown Hts. are primarily from the West Indies, right? The ones who are according to you all bad? (I'm not making a statement either way -- there are good and bad everywhere, which is why I brought up this: the Haredi are not as innocent as you claim).
Which means you're either blowing smoking up your ass about knowing such things, Thomas, or you're intentionally lying...or perhaps you love Haredi so much and/or hate blacks so badly that you refuse to remain anything but ignorant of the truth (which is that it isn't cut and dry, and it isn't new, and it isn't just a black/white issue after all although that's the one side of this that seems to be the flash point...probably do to the make up of the community in question).
PW
*I'll give you credit -- I was waiting for this, and you once again do not disappoint, thanks man!
I have to admit that at this point I am having just way too much fun witnessing you go off the rails -- so I'll stop for a while.
ReplyDeleteYou are getting just way too worked up for probably you're own good, and it's wrong to encourage that.
As for convincing you -- nah, I'm not that delusional. It's just been a hoot to watch you spout off and be able to come back with things that refute at least in some small way everything you've written...and then watching you go off the handle.
Truly, that isn't very charitable or nice of me, so I'll stop, ok?
PW
Ehem, actually, the blacks have been in that community as long or longer than the Hasidic Jews -- and the nobody appears to be going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteAlthough:
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/24/hasidic_jewish_landlord_in_crown_he.php
Seems running people out of the neighborhood, or wishing to keep them out, might be a two way street!
PW
Your personal experience with black gangs (as opposed to what is happening in Brooklyn, because you seem to be conflating it -- nobody's fate is shared, your story isn't their story, so don't conflate):
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it wasn't very good -- gangs in general are usually not a decent lot and not very liveable with (however, that you personally have had issue with one composed of blacks is regrettable, but at some point it has to be understood that not every gang is black, nor every black is in a gang, is a criminal, is a thug -- that isn't true, and that's probably at the root of this whole thing; I think the problem is that the thinking immediately jumps to that, and then the nastiness starts, and there is no stand down from it, no reconsideration).
I guess for your particular circumstance you can either stay or leave; either way, best of luck to you. I hope things work out.
But that still does not negate the fact that your behavior in general is excusable or that your logic is sound.
PW
Ok...one more time: I'm not a boy, ok?
ReplyDeleteDo you have any other things to say? Because you seem to be getting stuck on the same things in continual loop -- maybe time to get some fresh material.
PW