by Greg Gutfeld
Seriously, the police should start taping their own videos of weak male bloggers when they come crying for help after their iPhone or man purse gets stolen on the subway. The next time they report a mugging, just say, “Wow, I feel like such a jerk helping you out. Seeing this reflection of myself, I want to turn away.”
Finally, I wonder, would BuzzFeed ever have these goofs dress up as Bloods and Crips and then mock them? No, they’re cowards, too. Cops are just easier targets. Literally.
I wonder—do the people who filmed this stunt ever look back at this and feel a deep sense of shame and embarrassment? My guess is, they’ve already moved on to other stupid, hacky stunts, performed in well-deserved obscurity, between their shifts as children’s birthday clowns in Paramus, New Jersey. Also: still waiting, Buzzfeed, to have your hired hands dress up as other occupations, or “types.” But I guess only certain types of cultural appropriation are acceptable. Douchebags.
October 21, 2015
So when you read these monologues one after another, how clear is it—this growing sense of persecution against law enforcement? Does it not piss the hell out of you?
Last night, police officer Randolph Holder was shot and killed chasing a gunman during a gang battle in Harlem, New York. This five-year veteran displayed the usual sacrifice seen from law enforcement, running at trouble, not away. And chances are, whoever’s being approached isn’t an honor student with a bright future.
. . . which is how every suspect is portrayed shortly after being arrested . . .
The officers’ response is always under fire. Figuratively in the media, but literally in the street. You can thank gangs that always get a pass from our loudest outrage merchants. Recipients of tolerance welfare, gangs are viewed as cultural, not criminal.
They’re like a book club, but with more tattoos and guns. Oh, and yeah, no books.
Holder’s killer had been arrested fifteen times and was on the street due to a program made to shrink the prison population. Keep that in mind when you hear of overcrowding. The solution isn’t catch and release. It’s build, catch, then keep.
Every lib who claims prisons are overcrowded should offer to take one inmate as a boarder in their home.
Whoever called 911 was likely a law-abiding terrified minority member. Holder, a minority member, died in a place where his job mattered most, Harlem.
He was the fourth city officer killed in the last eleven months. Nationwide, 101 officers have been killed this year, a 50 percent jump from last year.
An amazing statistic, one you cannot deny has a connection to the tone and tenor of the anti–law enforcement drivel spewed by activists, media, political dipshits, and assorted gas-hats in movies and TV.
True, we do live in safer times, yet we cannot deny an atmospheric change. As a subversive crusade against law enforcement rages, the callow media trains new generations to hate those who die to protect us.
While I say that we live in safer times, I mean for civilians and not so much for cops.
Finally, Holder was an immigrant who took a tough job confronting thugs lucky enough to be born here. Countries often send us their best, only to deal with our worst.
That point makes me the sickest. This guy came here for a better life and put the time and effort in to do that. And who took his life? A person who had no desire for the same.
And as always, forget that half the NYPD is nonwhite, which activists conveniently do. If black lives didn’t matter to cops, why in God’s name does their presence save black lives? The stats speak for themselves. As murder rates drop, it’s clear black lives matter. They may mean more to the cops than anyone else.
October 26, 2015
Wanna know where a lot of the anticop bias comes from? The very same people who rely on the police when they tie up your streets shooting their hyperviolent films.
Case in point: One sanctimonious twit in the media/Hollywood complex who spewed such nonsense was Quentin Tarantino, a mouthy critic of cops, as well as a onetime mouthy defender of child-drugger-and-seducer Roman Polanski.
Director Quentin Tarantino graced an antipolice protest in New York just days after our own Randolph Holder was killed by the kind of dirtbag Tarantino usually embraces in his flicks.
Here’s QT talking BS:
QUENTIN TARANTINO, FILM DIRECTOR: I’m a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
And yet, he never called Harvey Weinstein on his serial raping—but why bite the slimy hand that feeds you.
What an ass. Once again, we see marches against cops, but rarely for—and led by pop culture parrots who make millions off violence. For it’s easy to glam up thuggery in the fantasy land when the violence can’t touch you, and when cops in real life protect you.
Driving by one protest, I must say there’s nothing like seeing white leftists shouting at black cops. There’s the racial divide Tarantino must ignore, so his false assumptions remain intact. New York’s a minority force, manned by blacks, Latinos, gays.
Holder was from Guyana. But in Quentin’s world, they’re all just white bigots who torture blacks in basements, just like in Pulp Fiction.
See, Quentin is just a film nerd who wants the left to love him. So he cultivates this outsider thing, but he knows absolutely nothing about crime. His movies are comic books from the fifties.
He’s about as authentic as an Elvis impersonator—a guy who gets all his references from other films, not real life. This is what happens when video store nerds actually score the director’s chair.
Remember Reservoir Dogs, that long scene where the cop gets mutilated to the sounds of Steeler’s Wheel? To Quentin that’s cool. To a cop, it’s torture porn.
The police union now urges a film boycott, but in this era of sanctuary cities, why not invite Quentin to set up a police-free community, where people like him can live and work without the benefit of cops. Carve out a small corner of Chicago where we can then place bets. In that cop-free world, will it be Quentin’s film or himself that gets shot first?
I actually like a few of his films, but his recent foray into social justice has pretty much peed in the pool of that experience. Every time I see one of his flicks on TV, I just think, “What a putz.” Then I turn the channel and watch reruns of The Brady Bunch, where the wisdom lives. Fact is, his life experience cannot sustain any wisdom or truth in his movies. For a movie to offer any kind of real meaning, it needs to come from an adult who’s lived a life.
May 16, 2016
Again, the end result of all this anticop blather? Law enforcement pulling back, because they fear doing their job will land them in the sights of idiotic leftists bent on destroying their lives.
In more than twenty major U.S. cities, homicide spiked in the first months of this year, causing the media to search for explanations while denying their own role in this body count. So far they blame heroin, gangs, and economic factors, but one person isn’t fleeing from the truth. FBI Director James Comey believes scrutiny aimed at police has changed the way it deals with citizens, creating a reticence that increases homicides mainly among minorities. Odd that the media says minorities are often victims of the police, yet more die when the cops back off.
Remember when Comey was a logical, sensible chap? Those were the days. He was pretty good when he stuck to preventing real crime.
So is this a coincidence? When you prevent the police from doing their jobs, murders go up? No, that’s a scientific method, a consequence of an experiment. The experiment, hold back; the consequence, death.
This is what’s known as “cause and effect.” Or to a leftist: “racism.”
Now, liberals will bend over backward to say they are troubled by this, but they will resist any commonsense answers. More petty crime, assaults, and robberies occur when perps know the police aren’t respected, and crime becomes more tolerated.
Witness the wild jump in sh
oplifting in California since a bill reduced penalties. Looting is now shopping!
Fact is, reality implicates those scrambling for excuses—politicians, activists, and media who undermine the men and women in blue, as gangs occupied by immigrant and out-of-work young men savage cities from Long Beach to Chicago. You might wonder, where are the police? They’re looking out for themselves. Someone has to.
July 8, 2016
This monologue focuses on the shooting of five police offers in Dallas, Texas. To remind the reader: The Next Generation Action Network organized a protest after the killing of two men by cops in Minnesota and Louisiana. At the protest, where cops were actually protecting the activists there to protest them, a creep named Micah Xavier John ambushed the police, killing five officers and wounding nine others.
So after the Texas massacre, President Obama brought up guns.
BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: We also know that when people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes attacks like these more deadly and more tragic. And in the days ahead we’re going to have to consider those realities as well.
It’s the familiar refrain from Orlando to Dallas. But gun control doesn’t address the acts, be they of terror or ambushes of police. We don’t hear the same response with vehicular homicide or arson. Here’s Obama again on the shootings in St. Paul and Baton Rouge.
OBAMA: These are not isolated incidents. They’re symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system.
Ugh—there’s the catchphrase of the progressive nincompoop: “symptomatic.” Where are the statistics that prove that these actions are “symptomatic”? Apparently you don’t need them when you traffic in bullshit “oppressor vs. oppressed” ideology. Funny how dead cops were never “symptomatic” to the White House.
Maybe so—but the tendency to group local, separate incidents into one greater national phenomenon often doesn’t reveal real truth. It only serves to obscure specifics in each case. The Dallas police had no connection at all to those incidents, but they took bullets because of them. They suffered for a media narrative.
Fact is, today’s police get more training, are subject to internal affairs and citizen review boards. They face more rules and procedures than ever. They’ve gotten better. But have we? We obsessed over Islamophobia, condemning negative portrayals of Islam—but we afford no such sensitivity to police.
So the idea that law enforcement is just racist whites killing blacks continues, even though we know it’s absurd.
I could recite the facts showing how more whites die from police than blacks or that black and Hispanic cops are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white cops, but why would I do that? You can’t change minds that refuse to change, that rely on emotional conclusions, formed well before the facts are ever known.
So put on your outrage helmets. The road is about to get bumpy once again, and protest, if you wish, and be happy you’re safe and protected by some of the greatest people on earth.
A point worth reiterating, because I totally forgot I made it: We obsess over Islamophobia, but not Policeophobia. Police are afforded no such protections against abuse—even when they bend over backward to do the right thing. Maybe they should all convert to Islam! BTW, in NYC, there are roughly three to four hundred Muslim cops, and they do an awesome job.
July 11, 2016
After the massacre of those police officers in Texas, the media took their usual tack: wondering about the backlash, not the bodies of those dead men.
So the Sunday New York Times just whined how sniper fire halted the strides of Black Lives Matter. Sorry, it halted the strides of five policemen permanently. The paper also added that BLM, not the police or our country, faces its biggest crisis yet.
That’s their default response. Grievance always trumps grieving.
It must have been hard then for the paper to report on a new study that finds absolutely no racial bias in police shootings, which undermines the whole narrative.
But facts lose to feelings, for identity politics always culminate in emotional tribalism because such division always guarantees attention.
And satisfies your reader base, which really is what this is all about.
But the Times shouldn’t fret. The victories of victimhood remain intact. The media slobbers over a photo of one lone woman standing against the evil militarized police. So, even after five good men are murdered, the stereotype must be maintained: the brutal force against the bravely peaceful—how touching, how fake.
Seriously, what happened to the rage? When the issue was police brutality, it was no justice, no peace. Now the issue’s murdered police and it’s let’s sing “Kumbaya.”
No thanks.
In 1989 Ice Cube’s band N.W.A did a song called “Fuck tha Police.” Recently, he got paid millions to play a police officer in Ride Along. In 1992, Ice-T’s band Body Count did a song called “Cop Killer.” He’s been playing a cop on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for sixteen years. So maybe targeting and trashing the police, truly, is a movement—careerwise, anyway.
Why is this only a one-way street? If rappers can play cops, can cops play rappers?
I do realize these monologues have started to take a more serious turn as the chapter goes on. It all weighs on you, which, given the topic, is no surprise. Can’t make jokes about unicorns and Alec Baldwin here.
July 18, 2016
This monologue ties it all together—how antipolice movements and proterror groups meld into one force that seeks to destroy society. And it’s this monologue that predicts a president.
It’s day one of the convention, and the topic is security. Recent months have been a game of Ping-Pong between Islamism and attacks on police. One week it’s Orlando, another it’s Dallas, then France, then Baton Rouge.
Terror and attacks on police share a common desire: to dismantle civilization. For the Islamists, it’s about ending the world because the next one is going to be so much better for them. For the haters of police, it’s about creating warring tribes to rot a country from within. We face external and internal threats. How can America survive that?
The next president must be able to nail that question. He or she must prioritize threats, knowing that fossil fuels are way nicer than ISIS, and that transgendered bathrooms must take a back seat to killing jihadists. This leader must understand that terror changes, more so than climate, as technology creates new avenues at a breathless pace. It won’t be just trucks and guns—add drones, phones, and bioagents. And safety won’t be achieved through the coddling of identity hucksters demanding protection from the loathsome behavior they encourage. So as we focus on safety, ask yourself this: Who among our choices exhibits the temperament, drive, and attention span need to focus on security? And who will listen to those who know the threat? Because more of the same is not an option and, frankly, one of our options could be really worse.
That’s “How to Beat Hillary” in three easy sentences, folks. I basically stumble through life like anyone else, but that last graph makes me feel like Nostradamus. A short, slightly overweight one, but a Nostradamus nonetheless.
Actually, I’m not too sure I was specifically talking about Trump here—I might have been. But one thing’s for sure. As the campaign wore on, it became clear that Trump was the only candidate breaking through on these issues. Proof of that was November 8, 2016, when ten thousand revelers at the Javits Center on Manhattan’s West Side found themselves chowing down on history’s biggest reality sandwich, instead of hugging each other while shouting “I’m with her!”
Where Are We Now?
Since Donald Trump became president, we’ve definitely seen a more vocal defense of law enforcement. But we’ve also seen an equally vocal reaction to his reaction. Colin Kaepernick’s protest in kneeling before the National Anthem garnered way more press than it deserved, perhaps because it flew in the face of Trump’s powerful support of the police. But it’s also a testament to the protest itse
lf. It worked! Colin ended up on magazine covers and transformed himself from a fading athlete to a revolutionary figure. I gotta hand it to the guy—at the very least, it worked out for him (as for the country, that’s another story). But his protest succeeded, because it was a perfect recipe for a media hungry for such narratives. It ticked all the boxes: Another American institution is cast as the oppressor, and race is the primary factor. The problem with the protest, however, is that it made the target not simply the police, but the country itself. By taking that knee during the National Anthem, at a normally apolitical event where people go to get away from such crap, we all became the bad guys.
Was Colin protesting the police, or the entire system? I say the latter—and here’s why. If you look at his other political statements and activist endeavors, you’ll see that it’s all part of the “oppressor vs. oppressed” story line—a narrative where the only happy ending is to topple the evil, oppressive system. He drank the radical leftist Kool-Aid, and the media, as always, cheered him on. Meanwhile, the NFL’s ratings took a hit, but cable TV didn’t. Colin supplied so much fodder for so many segments, and will continue to do so if and when he decides to run for president!
As I finish this chapter, the NFL just announced new rules to put an end to the kneeling controversy, which involves fining players. Some people—even usually on-the-ball libertarians—saw this as infringing on one’s right to freedom of speech.
They are wrong. The First Amendment is a right held by every citizen—against the government. But a private entity like the NFL? They own it—they make the rules. As long as there is no discrimination, the NFL can mandate that all players wear tutus and the referees speak Esperanto. It’s their ball, they can take it and go home. And the players can protest, but they will be penalized if they try it during the game. Penalized, not JAILED. Only the government can jail you. See the difference? It’s a shame the media can’t.
