Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A Big Announcement About The Fight Ahead ~ Ep. 1276 ~ The Dan Bongino Show®

From the Dan Bongino Show's description of this episode on youtube.com/Bongino or in his Show Notes:
In this episode, I address the media’s disgusting misinformation campaign regarding the Atlanta police incident. I also address the tech tyrant's latest efforts to crush the Trump campaign and what I plan to do about it. Finally, I discuss the latest disastrous decision by NYPD management, which will cost lives.
So, let me tell you a little about what plainclothes anti-crime units, like what Police Commissioner Dermot Shea is disbanding in New York City, can do, from a personal perspective, as the intended target and victim of a crime. This goes right along with what Dan is talking about in his second segment, right after the Omaha Steaks spot that made my mouth water.  I can testify as to what the plainclothes officers did to prevent a crime against me and my newlywed bride on our honeymoon, in New Orleans.

On February 3, 1997, we were on our 2nd day of our honeymoon.  It was a gorgeous 85 degrees, sunny, and after driving down from Iowa, that sure felt good.  Here we were, enjoying our time and bar hopping, and getting to hear outrageously good jazz bands.  As we're walking down the street, a kid in his late teens comes up to us and says to me, "I bet you five dollars I can tell you where and when you got your shoes."  Obviously, I was the easy mark.  It didn't take long for me to take the bet, being there was no way he could tell me that.  But he says, "Look, here's my five, and I'm honest, if you promise to be honest if I'm right."  Did I or my bride have a clue what he was up to?  Umm, not so much.  I wasn't too street wise, if you know what I mean.  So, the kid tells me, "You got your shoes right here, right now."  Technically, he was correct.

So, being honest, as I promised, I was reaching in my pocket to retrieve my wallet.  As I was pulling it out, here comes this unmarked Crown Vic, with two guys in plainclothes, but with badges, and seconds later three squad cars show up.  They made an arrest on the perp.  As Dan tells you in this segment, it was a "Self-observed criminal arrest."  Because of them, the police, I still had my wallet, the honeymoon could go on as planned, and I didn't even have to show up in a court in order to testify.  As it turned out, it was a really lucky day for Connie and I.  The police were doing a sweep to rid the streets of the criminals prior to Mardi Gras that was beginning that weekend!  Yes, they had the perfect stakeout, and were ready when that kid made the mark go to hand over the five.  But, there is the fact that one of the officers, who easily guessed we were from out of town, told us that once I pulled out the wallet, the kid would grab it and run.  That was the M.O. for that type of scam.  Before I had a chance to thank the officers, they had the kid locked up in the back of the squad car, on his way to jail.

That story above is true.  It is exactly why I know that every word that Dan says in that segment, and through every segment of this episode and all others, is accurate information.  The politicization by the Commissioner of the NYPD, by eliminating the anti-crime units, is so absurd.  It is beyond absurd, in my humble opinion.  And it's dangerous to the public safety of not just the citizens of New York City, but also visitors to the city (from Iowa?).  Only, not just from thieves that want to take your wallet the easy way, but that probably wouldn't hesitate to rob and kill you.

Hey, I know, I didn't go into a lot of details about this episode, like about his move to have a stake in Parler.com.  But, this is what I do.  I give you his episodes, because the information that Dan Bongino provides us with is valuable, and then try to write about the information that verifies the way I think.  It is very troubling when people like Geraldo Rivera try to tell you things that are just not true.  This episode provides the evidence that there are people like Geraldo everywhere... It's sad to see!

I hope that you are watching every one of Dan's episodes, like I do!





Friday, May 14, 2010

'Barack Obama doesn't care about white people!' ~ By Larry Elder

Larry's column deals with the bias of the mainstream press, along with the way the people of Tennessee are dealing with their flood as compared to how things went following Hurricane Katrina. In reading the bullet points below, you will see why the media has a lack of interest in the devastation in Nashville.
Consider some alternate explanations for the media's comparative lack of interest:
  • Those affected, residents and officials, didn't blame others. WSMV general manager Hale praised the spirit of Tennessee. His station, organizers and entertainers came together with two days notice. Quoting one of his news anchors, Hale said, "'Volunteerism is in our DNA.' When the Red Cross came in they were surprised because so much had already been done."
  • The media's beloved Obama failed to carry Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Those states, alien (if not enemy) territory, are simply of minor importance. It's just hard to feel those folks' pain.
  • One Bush critic argued that the president didn't care about New Orleans because it is "black" and "sexy." Perhaps the media's indifference to Nashville is because that city is "only" 25 percent black and therefore "white and redneck."
  • Non-Obama voting, self-reliant "Hee-Haw'ers" who aren't blaming somebody for their troubles just don't make for big news.
Where's the race card when you need it?

By Larry Elder

Posted: May 13, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010


"Barack Obama doesn't care about white people!"

No, country star Taylor Swift didn't say that about the president. Nor did any of the entertainers who performed on a telethon to raise money for victims of the historic floods ravaging parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. None accused the Obama administration of indifference or lack of attentiveness to these floods.

Swift, who contributed $500,000, was one of many stars who appeared on this fundraiser put on by the Nashville NBC affiliate, WSMV, and carried by other Tennessee stations.

In 2005, a Hurricane Katrina relief telethon was carried live on CBS, ABC, Fox and NBC, and more than 25 other channels. A separate telethon was broadcast on MTV, VH1 and CMT. During a Katrina fundraiser, rapper Kanye West accused President George W. Bush of indifference to the plight of those suffering. West said, "George W. Bush doesn't care about black people."

Hurricane Katrina was catastrophic. It caused over 1,500 deaths, with property damage estimated at near $100 billion and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. The failures of local and state responders, the widely criticized federal response and subsequent finger-pointing made a tragically newsworthy story even more so.

And, at the moment, there is no shortage of significant news. Major stories include: a naturalized American Muslim terrorist admitted placing a car bomb in Times Square; an underwater oil rig erupted in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi, creating the largest domestic oil spill since the Exxon Valdez; Arizona passed a controversial anti-illegal alien law that critics claim "legalizes racial profiling"; Greece faces a financial collapse.

But has the traditional media devoted the time and attention warranted by the historic floods?

"We have been astonished by the lack of national coverage of this disaster," Elden Hale, general manager of Nashville's WSMV, told me. He acknowledged that the story competed with the Times Square terrorist and the Gulf oil spill. He said, "But still ..."

How big a deal are these floods?

Hale said his area received 15 inches of rain in two days, a phenomenon of "biblical proportions." People, he said, still haven't grasped the dimensions of this disaster. The rainfalls are the highest since records have been kept. The resulting floods have been described as the greatest tragedy to hit the area since the Civil War. So far, 30 peopled are listed dead, the count expected to grow as floods recede and bodies are recovered. "Rivers have been created where none existed before," Hale said, "and people who've lost homes didn't carry flood insurance because these areas never flooded before."

Why haven't the floods gotten more attention?

"I don't want to get into that," Hale said, "but you and I both know they care more about the two coasts than they do Middle America." Did NBC network express any interest in airing the telethon? "No," Hale said, "but in fairness, I didn't offer it to them. We intended for it to be a local affair."

As to the lack of media interest, a Newsweek senior writer tried to explain. Unlike the Times Square and oil rig stories, he wrote, the floods lacked "plot twists," a "political hook," and the "Nashville narrative wasn't compelling enough to break the cycle."

No plot twists? No political hook? Not compelling enough?


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