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Spin the Violence! Spin! Spin!

The "party of peace" is out in force again, with one unifying theme: Hatred.

I'm loving the protest coverage. Shall we play spot-the-spin? It's almost too easy: Even a game of tic-tac-toe with a two move handicap is more challenging.

Let's see how WABC-TV reports the brutal assault of NYPD plainclothes detective, and peacemaker, Lt. William Sample. I picked this example of bias in the following manner:

I went to Google News and clicked on the very first match which came up.

So you can see I'm really rigging this game.

Police are now looking for a demonstrator who stomped and punched a detective, knocking him unconscious.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called the assault a vicious and blatant attack. Protesters pushed William Sample to the ground and they beat the detective so severely that he was knocked unconscious. On Tuesday morning, he was at St. Vincent's hospital recovering from severe head injuries. It was an ugly look at what could happen when two sides clash.

Two sides? Which two sides? A solo, unidentified detective and group of protestors? Give me a break. Perhaps his crime was wearing a suit and thus looking like a Republican ripe for for a good face-stomping and kicking.

Read this sentence, cleverly buried at the bottom of the article, away from this text, and see how much sense the "two sides clash" narrative makes:

Police say Officer William Sample was attacked after being knocked off his scooter. His attacker escaped and is still being sought.

So, Sample was driving by. How provacative! Which other side again? Perhaps the reporter wants to make it look like conservatives had something to do with this. In fact, we'll need to look to an entirely different article to discover who the "other side" really was:

But a witness said the officer had been caught between protesters marching uptown and those being turned back at the barricade.

Ah, protestors ran into protestors, and a cop gets caught in the crush, and the scooter "fell onto someone's leg", said the witness. Certainly warrants a good stomping, I'd say.

And what horrible acts of police aggression set the mood for this "reaction"?

When police tried to place barriers to allow emergency vehicles cross-town access, protesters grabbed the barriers and threw one of them at the officers, Browne said. Sample was hurt coming to those officers' aid.

Yeah, how dare those officer put down barriers for emergency vehicles.

Meanwhile, back to the KABC-TV article:

Nearby, on 30th street, other scuffles erupted as demonstrators were denied access to streets leading past the garden. But despite scattered violence, most of Monday's protests were peaceful.

I love that. "Most" are peaceful. Good to know they didn't quite hit the 50% mark. Now the weather: "Despite scattered tornado devastation, most cities are still left standing."

So they were thwarted as they tried to cross barriers: How dare they be denied the ability to do to delegates what they did to Detective Sample? Again, notice how they react when they don't get what they want: Violence is their first reflex.

During a march that began at the U.N., thousands chanted in protest against GOP policies affecting the poor.

Really? Which policies? Are the poor really affected? This rendering forces you to accept the proposition. Let's see how it should have been worded:

During a march that began at the U.N., thousands chanted in protest against "GOP policies", many of which actually dated back to the Clinton years, which they alleged affected the poor.

Question: Do you think if veterans marched against John Kerry's "duplicity", they wouldn't get an "alleged" before that word? You bet! -- they'd get all kinds of disqualifiers -- "alleged, claimed, supposedly" -- if they got any ink at all.

And here's another omitted detail about these left-leaning, morally superior protestors:

Sample was injured after cops let a group called the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, which had rallied outside the United Nations, march through the city even though it did not have a permit to do so.

Tactics 101: Leftists love to pick some sympathetic group of people, often people who can't speak for themselves, and then pretend to represent those people's views, putting leftist words into their mouths. In this case, the fine folks who attacked the plainclothes detective were the "Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign." Want to guess how many of these marchers were poor?

Along the way, another officer was socked in the face. And when the crowd neared the Garden, troublemakers tried to push through police barricades.

So, the "mostly peaceful" protestors actually attacked two policemen? I'm sure this is of great help to the poor.

Hey, but let's all remember that the Republicans did similar things during the DNC's conference. Right? .... Oh.

CNS has more of the story:

Police said there had been 11 protest-related arrests within an hour of the clash.

Bringing the running total to about 550 arrests. Repeat this until you believe it: Mostly peaceful. Mostly peaceful...

With chants of "the whole world is watching" and shouts of "Mother f***er, f***ing pig!" the crowd of protestors began to disperse, as the police forced them off the streets....

A white male protester verbally trashed a female African American police officer by telling her repeatedly that she had "sold out [her] own people" by becoming a policewoman.

"You people sold all that out, you sold out your own class to join the f***ing pigs. You sold out your own people. Someday you will stand before some kind of judgment," said the man, who would identify himself only as Zack from California.

A white male has the audacity to tell a black woman that she is not authentically black. Behold the irony. Only among leftists. Also note that God, or whatever, is certainly on Zack's side: God shouldn't be talked about too much, except he's when working for leftists, sending conservatives (or cops, should no actual conservatives be available) to hell for failing to do whatever leftists want them to at that moment.

This characteristic low tolerance for "disobedience" (of others to them) is why I'm convinced "totalitarians" is the more accurate label. They are not anarchists at all: They want a very strong government, but they simply want to be the ones in charge. They certainly don't want everyone to do whatever they want (such as speak opposing ideas). Just them. They only reason they want to create a power vacuum is so they can then fill it with themselves.

When police declared that the area had to be cleared to accommodate a "medical emergency," skeptical protestors verbally struck back.

"Yeah, what did you do? Kick someone's head in? You f***ers!" screamed a male protestor to several police officers.

"Shame, shame, shame!" other protestors chanted, as many openly smoked marijuana.

Yes, just like Ghandi and Reverend Martin Luther King.


These protestors didn't even have a permit to protest. But the police -- those thugs -- actually allowed them to protest anyway. Even gave them a police escort. The crowd was certainly grateful, no?


Now, can you guess who else is against the police?

But officials from the New York Civil Liberties Union said police tactics exacerbated an already volatile situation.

"There was a complete lack of flexibility and communication," said Christopher Dunn, NYCLU associate legal director.

Paul Browne, a police spokesman, retorted, "citing communication as a rationale for the vicious beating of an officer is mind-boggling."

Spot on.


Continuing our coverage of the "mostly peaceful" protests, here are the titles of video clips available in the right margin. See if you can spot the irony:

City Bracing for "Day of Anarchy" Protests Tuesday

Protests Monday Night Turn Violent

Anarchists Mar Otherwise Peaceful Protests With Fire

I love that last one. We report on incident after incident of violence, each time saying, assuringly, that except for this one, things have been mostly peaceful. Yes, I'm sure the fire marred things. So did stomping detective Sample. So did the brawl over their inability to attack delegates. And countless obscenities and threats of bodily harm, which I guess are "peaceful".


Of course the media continues to hide the fact that the protestors are leftists, preferring the label "anarchists". But do you really think if a bunch of small-government conservatives or libertarians decided to take some kind of direct action, they'd be called "anarchists?" No, they'd called "right wing" or "conservative." Watch the labels ladies and gentlemen, that they'll lead you to the bias.

A few of the protestors said Kerry was just as bad as Bush -- he's "Bush lite". Really? Then where were the protests at the DNC convention? They say Kerry isn't sufficiently far to the left. Yet recall that Kerry is the Senate's most liberal member, and you can get an idea in which direction these people want to take our country.

Stalingrad, I think.


Now go read this about how delegates are being harrassed.


It's personal, folks. Hate is the operative emotion here, and they hate you. God loves them, though -- remember that -- and we should too.

Don't tell me the gospel isn't radical.

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