LIGHTING THE FIRE, THEN LAMENTING THE FLAMES

First, we have President Obama on July 7th, speaking about the police shooting/killing of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile – before anywhere near all the facts were known:

“Although I am constrained in commenting on the particular facts of these cases, I am encouraged that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation in Baton Rouge, and I have full confidence in their professionalism and their ability to conduct a thoughtful, thorough, and fair inquiry.

“But regardless of the outcome of such investigations, what’s clear is that these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve.

Next, we have President Obama’s statement after micah johnson killed 5 Dallas police officers, injured 7 – 9 others (accounts vary) and, during this massacre specifically, unequivocally, told the world he was out to kill White cops and White cops only:

“First of all, I think it’s very hard to untangle the motives of this shooter.  I’ll leave that to psychologists and people who study these kinds of incidents … I think the danger is that we somehow suggest the act of a troubled individual speaks to some larger political statement across the country.”…

Now we have Hillary Clinton.  First, after the Dallas massacre:

“I will call for White people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families, who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have the talk about … how to really protect themselves, when they are the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with the police. I’m going to be talking to White people. I think we are the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries that are coming from our African-American fellow citizens, and we have so much more to be done, and we have got to get about the business of doing it. We can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or incitement of violence. We need to bring people together.”

Then hours later – presumably after a few of her operatives got through to her that this was both ugly racial stereotyping and could easily be taken as a justification for micah johnson’s murderous actions:

“We cannot, we must not vilify police officers. Remember what those officers were doing when they died. They were protecting a peaceful march. They were people in authority making sure that their fellow citizens hat the right to protest authority, and there is nothing more vital to our democracy than that. And they died for it.”

With the perfectly disgusting lead-up you just read in mind, let’s look at the latest Investors Business Daily editorial.  Here are a few key excerpts (but please, please read the rest – there’s a lot more there):

If tragedy is supposed to reveal a person’s ability to lead, both President Obama and his would-be successor, Hillary Clinton, failed miserably in the wake of the slaughter of five police officers in Dallas.

While Obama is certain that racism is behind police shootings of black people — a claim that a new study debunks — he pleads ignorance about why Micah Xavier Johnson carried out his murderous rampage.

“I think it’s very hard to untangle the motives of this shooter,” he said on Saturday. Apparently, motives are only clear when they fit Obama’s political narrative.

The police have had enough, and at long last are starting to blast Obama’s rhetoric.

If Obama’s response was bad, Clinton’s was even worse.

On CNN Friday, Clinton essentially blamed the police for the fact that five of them were killed the day before because blacks feel as if they have to “protect themselves” from the police.

Later that same day, Clinton followed up her un-presidential vilification of the police by telling an audience that “we cannot, we must not vilify police officers.”

The reason Obama and Clinton are having such difficulty dealing with the Dallas shooting is that they’ve both spent years shouting racism any time a cop shoots a black person. Now that someone has acted on this inflammatory rhetoric, they’re awkwardly trying to back pedal.

What does it say about political leaders who are willing to exaggerate a problem and whip up racial hostilities for political gain, and then pretend that their own rhetoric has nothing to do with the resulting violence?

What you just read pretty much speaks for itself.  But I would like to add one more element:  much of mainstream media not only tolerates the sickening, fraudulent two-faced comments chronicled above, but largely operate with the same level of hypocrisy and dishonesty.

So my congratulations to the “journalists” who aid and abet such hypocritical, racially incendiary garbage.  I wonder how much of this could have happened without you.