Thursday, August 26, 2010

Maybe They Were Democrats...

...yelling Beat Righty!

But somehow I rather doubt it.

3 comments:

wally said...

Gee, what's your point here, Bob?

Bob said...

@wally: My point is that, with the Des Moines cops backpedaling so furiously from the claim of this being a racial incident, that it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they would claim that it was instead a political incident, provoked by white Tea Party activists.

What I'm curious about is why the backpedaling, and the cop involved being silenced?

wally said...

Maybe not statistically beyond the realm of possibility, but highly unlikely that a police department would blame the Tea Party. From the tone of the article, I'd say they were trying not to spoil the fair and keep the incident from becoming a huge political football. Not the most noble of motives, but kind of understandable. As it is, the Aryans are descending on the town anyway.

While I can understand the police not wanting to have this escalate, I think that calling these things what they are is in the long run the right thing to do. Plus they're probably going to escalate anyway.