Ashamed of What?
American Greatness,
by
Paul Gottfried
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/8/2021 11:57:12 AM
People ask me if I feel “ashamed” about what Miranda Devine describes as “the clueless insurrection” in the Capitol on Wednesday. My response? I am about as ashamed as Joe Biden, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Juan Williams of Fox News were about the riots and shootings that the Democratic Party subsidized and even justified last summer.
Unlike those violent riots, which the Democrats and national media attributed to white racism, and which came from Democratic voters, the turmoil in the Capitol on Wednesday did not result in burning and looting.(Snip) the only shooting victim (which the media don’t seem to care about since white Republican lives don’t matter) was a
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/8/2021 11:58:15 AM (No. 653205)
OP comment: The photo linked in Comments above does not show Ms. Babbitt. Just the witness and the window.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/8/2021 12:23:26 PM (No. 653235)
Who the heck is Miranda? Never mind, I don't care. Can we start in 2021 with talking about US and what we need to do and not about them, what they do, think, or say? Can we? We need to focus on US. One of the things that finally turned me off from watching Fox news shows was constantly having to hear the side of leftists. The host would have a conservative who might get 20 seconds to speak while we were forced to hear the foolishness of the leftists for most of the session. I'm done listening to these people. It's not hard to figure out their side. Let's focus on working out our differences, come together, so we can fight these fools!
I know I'm off topic, but I'm working this out, and it's gonna to take me a minute.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NeverForget 1/8/2021 12:26:49 PM (No. 653242)
Journalism, as I understand it is supposed to answer basic questions such as: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How many?
So far the so-called reporting with regard to the incident at the Capitol building a couple of days ago have not only failed to answer most of these questions, they haven't even asked the questions.
This is Example #2,334,723,567,188 of why it is impossible to give even a small amount of credibility to big media.
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earlybird 1/8/2021 12:27:22 PM (No. 653243)
Re #2, Miranda Devine is an “Australian conservative”, whatever that is.. I saw her last night on TV. She has gone all limp wristed on what happened on Wednesday. Has already decided who’s at fault and it’s us and our President. Aussies have a history that is a burden they’ll never be able to put down. I don’t worry about what they have to say. Ditto the Brits, the Canadians, etc. The Brits are still irked that we got away and have been such a great success without them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Laotzu 1/8/2021 12:28:56 PM (No. 653245)
The Author has read my mind. I am dumbfounded at how quickly conservatives were ready to self-immolate at the behest of the media in the last 72 hours.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pensom2 1/8/2021 12:34:07 PM (No. 653250)
The dems and the MSM want the world to believe that the "mostly peaceful" protest at the capitol, with no fires, no destruction to speak of, amounts to a terrible insult to our democratic institutions, blah, blah, blah. The real insult to our republic is widespread voting fraud paid for by China, Russia, Iran, Facebook, et al., with the complicity of state governors, secretaries of state, and voting precinct managers, together with a wink and a nod from state and federal supreme courts.
Our republic is in trouble alright, but not because of a few hundred noisy but harmless misfits trolling through the Capitol Building, led by Antifa impostors.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jinx 1/8/2021 1:37:17 PM (No. 653343)
Our new VP elect went so far as to support and encourage people to support financially the rioters and looters from BLM and Antifa by helping to bail them out of jail so they could go do it again. Go figure.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tyshab 1/8/2021 1:38:55 PM (No. 653351)
No way I will ever be ashamed about supporting MAGA, Trump or the revealing of election fraud and the desire to see cheaters punished.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FormerDem 1/8/2021 1:57:28 PM (No. 653383)
Both side should agree that the last election was non-transparent, and that non-transparency causes deep trouble, and the way forward is to restore transparent election procedures. Trying to fix blame .... that is a dead end. What is needed in the future is transparent elections. The non-transparent procedures put in place for COVID are to blame for the mutual misunderstandings right now. The way forward is to learn the main lesson of it all: Transparency is absolutely vital to a democracy, and election procedures must be attended to, and those who put forward or permitted non-transparency are- whether they intended it or not and we do not care - at fault for the mutual bad feeling. The way forward is to institute transparency. Even MORE than ever before.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2021 2:38:18 PM (No. 653453)
#9, pretty Pollyanna view there. The Demonrats will never say anything other than the election was wonderful. And they will spend the next several years perfecting their methods of fraud, deception and registering millions of illegal aliens, the dead, and the never-existed to vote.
I hold little hope that the republic recovers from this without some really dark times.
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Ashli Babbitt was senselessly murdered by a plain clothes Capitol police officer who was close enough to her to see that she was not armed. And she wasn’t climbing through that broken glass door pane, where a huge piece of sharp glass loomed up from the bottom of the frame. An eyewitness said she was trying to put her cell phone through the open upper part. Being short, she asked a man to boost her up. The shooter could have shouted “Stop!" or "Stop or I’ll shoot”. Instead he stepped toward her and fired multiple rounds. She fell backward.
Here’s the glass they say she was trying to “climb” or “clamber” through. Be serious.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/15/37705148-9122477-A_witness_looks_down_at_Babbitt_collapsed_on_the_ground_in_shock-a-90_1610032521164.jpg