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Posted on July 8, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Tonight, as protesters attempted to stop @LMPD from towing a car, a woman threw water at one officer.

The officer quickly grabbed her, pushed her to the ground and arrested her.

People in the crowd say the officer says she threw a punch. Here’s the video. pic.twitter.com/fMCjxM4qXY

— Bailey Loosemore (@bloosemore) July 8, 2020

Courier Journal reporter Bailey Loosemore was embedded with Louisville protesters as they swarmed LMPD officers. The police were having a car removed from a no parking zone near the protest site that has seen one murder and multiple battles with police over the past two months.

The reporter’s caption is more supportive of the protester claims. First, the type of liquid is unknown. In prior protests, police have had urine and chemicals thrown at them. This video does not clarify the actual substance splashed toward several officers, not just one.

“People in the crowd say” sets up a hearsay problem. The same problem arises from the reporter’s secondary claim that “protesters say the car’s owner was never asked to move it.”

Who is the car owner? Why not get a direct quote from that person?

Read the comments for more backseat driving misdirection.

On a parallel front, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer began his one year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. His office posted a video touting leadership, listening, and learning.

Read the comments section to see how the Louisville protesters and #BlackLivesMatter constituents aren’t having any of what the mayor is serving.

In these challenging times, the amount of opportunity we have to do good has never been greater. During my tenure as President of @usmayors, Louisville will be leading the calls for the kinds of systematic change people are demanding. pic.twitter.com/ThHUdvoQbv

— Mayor Greg Fischer (@louisvillemayor) July 8, 2020

Black voices on Black issues; my job is to listen without comment

Posted on July 7, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

You want truth?.. @DrRickyLJones @terrymeiners https://t.co/NkPXckFbXp

— Terry (@cardinalterry42) July 7, 2020

THREAD: On @CNNTonight, Terry Crews explained to host @donlemon why he was rightly critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. "It was almost a supremist move where they viewed that their black lives mattered a lot more than mine." But lemon got combative real quick pic.twitter.com/TkgfU5ZAxu

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 7, 2020

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2020

Two men. One Black. One White. Both descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Both say take down the Jefferson Memorial in D.C. (Replace it, they say, with a statue of Harriet Tubman “ I think we paid enough attention to the founding fathers and it’s time to celebrate…the women.”) pic.twitter.com/3r0dWSVQaX

— Poppy Harlow (@PoppyHarlowCNN) July 7, 2020

Death by a thousand edit cuts

Posted on July 4, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment

Activist journalism is killing what our information disseminating forebears spent hundreds of years building. Thanks, partisan jackasses.

Journalism today. https://t.co/46dQvCprtl

— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 4, 2020

Also, the English language is under siege.

Yep. English is literally dead. https://t.co/hGVXeSNDV7

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 1, 2020

As I see @WKUBasketball call out @KentuckyMBB I’m wondering why them two along with @LouisvilleMBB and @RacersHoops don’t play a Big Four Classic every year. Would think that would make money in this state. Am I wrong?

— Kendrick HaskinsWave (@KendrickHaskins) July 7, 2020

Those two, Kendrick. Those two.

Are there no editors in today’s world? Have we completely surrendered to cost cutting management?

Yes.

Here’s a promising story. The BLUE ANGELS are here! Happy 4th of July, America!

Bless me, Schnorrer

Posted on July 1, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

As a Catholic, I found this incredible scene from The Sopranos completely spot on. In the 1970s and 80s, our family home was a regular stop for various priests and other religious leaders looking for a meal or adult beverages.

The Sopranos scene above is an uncomfortable reality showing the freeloading priest Father Phil being called out by Carmela for manipulating “spiritually thirsty” women.

The Catholic church limits women to roles lesser than priests and therefore keeps them locked in a spiritually thirsting state.

Bravo to the script writers for a searing look at reality.

Now enjoy more treats from the brilliant Sopranos series, one of the greatest stories in American television history.

Matt Damon can’t pronounce Louisville

Posted on June 27, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

Matt Damon can’t commit to a sensible pronunciation of Louisville. On 30 Rock, no one on the production team reshot this scene where Damon says LOO-uh-ville.

Hillbillies say LOO-uh-vul.

People with self respect say LOUIE-ville.

The city is named after King Louis XI. There is no King LOO-uh.

Ville is vill. Villanova. Villain. The Ville.

Stop being a poser. If you can muster the energy to correctly pronounce Taylorsville Road and Shelbyville Road then work a little harder to say Louisville with a shred of self respect.

And now here are some bloopers from Between Two Ferns. Good night. Let yourself out.

Come Together 👀 Ricky Jones and Sean Lennon on life, color, and expression

Posted on June 25, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

📻 @DrRickyLJones analyzes McGrath vs Booker, political courage, Black Power in 2020, equal decision making with White people, and why Sammy Sosa is dead to him. 🎙 @840WHAS audio ▶️ https://t.co/VG39nSjGdL #race #community #BlackLivesMatter 📸 @Utterback13 @courierjournal pic.twitter.com/kcYe4qd8Xz

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 24, 2020

Those who want to see everything through a lens of race and class, judging individuals based on immutable characteristics, pretend to be fighting the very thing they are enacting. And none of us wish to speak up because we have been bullied into silence. Anyway how was your day?

— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 24, 2020

Calipari’s daughter barks at rival Chris Mack to school his wife on wokeness, quickly deletes tweet

Posted on June 24, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

Erin Calipari is the daughter of University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. She regularly fights with people on Twitter.

This one’s a little stickier than others. Erin Calipari took offense to a social media post where Christi Mack, wife of University of Louisville basketball coach Chris Mack, applauded a post about supporting all of society, including police, during these tumultuous days of racial unrest.

Erin Calipari deleted her clapback tweet less than one hour after posting it.

Who in 2020 thinks it’s OK to demand that a man put his wife in her place? Wut? Aren’t you a Ph.D doing research at Vanderbilt? Did your husband say it was OK to go to college?

Erin Calipari added this follow up:

I’ve said this before – if you make money off of Black athletes you should definitely not be working to invalidate a movement to raise awareness for police violence against Black people and the inequities in our societies.

— Dr.SicilianoCalipari (@TheErinCalipari) June 24, 2020

Erin has a right to her voice. So does Christi Mack. So do all people. 1A, baby!

Of course, most true blue Kentucky fans are supportive of Erin Calipari throwing a shrill bomb at her dad’s arch rivals. But she deleted the tweet so we know who still calls the shots in the family, and it’s not the one wearing a lab coat.

John Calipari’s daughter vs Chris Mack’s wife on Twitter is exactly the spark the UK/UL rivalry needed

— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) June 24, 2020

Here’s the full message that Christi Mack was applauding online before Erin Calipari went on the attack.

A phenomenally comprehensive illustration on how we’ve ruined our media business

Posted on June 15, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

The current intellectual movement is "counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily." https://t.co/MHXoAy9U5e

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 13, 2020

A free press is a sacred trust. We must protect its integrity instead of baking in bias and pretending to be objective. Diversity is good. Group think is not.

BREAKING: An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president has been convicted of libel and sentenced to up to six years in jail, in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy. https://t.co/iLFPMjV3GQ

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2020

The cause of all of the world’s problems: WMR

Posted on June 14, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

Michael Moore thinks American women underestimate White Male Rage. Managing White Male Rage is like the whole thing we're raised in America to DO.

— Obelisk of Wokeness 🍩 (@EBlumberg11) June 14, 2020

2020 brought us the coronavirus pandemic, unprecedented unemployment, a near collapse of the American economy, and worldwide #BLM protests of police brutality that attracted riotous side actors.

But white male rage…well, that’s been here since Cain and Abel. The phrase found rejuvenated viability from a January SNL bit mocking the film JOKER.

Rep. John Yarmuth on new info in the McAtee shooting, HEROES ACT, and whether uber liberal support is helpful to a Democrat in red state Kentucky

Posted on June 10, 2020 by terrymeiners Posted in Uncategorized

📻 @RepJohnYarmuth reacts to new info in the #DavidMcAtee shooting, clarifying "defund the police", how #HeroesAct could boost equality, and do @BernieSanders & @AOC really help @Booker4KY in red Kentucky? @840WHAS audio https://t.co/oA29cYinqz #PoliceReform #BlackLivesMattter pic.twitter.com/HfDEcrgeUe

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 10, 2020

We learned today that a bullet from the Kentucky National Guard killed David “BBQ Man” McAtee during a law enforcement shutdown during curfew. McAtee had fired at least two shots from the 9 millimeter weapon that he pulled. Kentucky government officials say that McAtee fired first and was shot by either of the LMPD officers who returned fire along with national guard troops.

A shot from @kentuckyguard killed #DavidMcAtee, not @LMPD officers, according to @GovAndyBeshear cabinet secretary Michael Brown. @840WHAS #Louisvilleprotests #Louisville #Kentucky #LawEnforcement pic.twitter.com/8WCqD7H1mV

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 9, 2020

The update on the McAtee case was delivered by Governor Andy Beshear’s executive cabinet secretary J. Michael Brown, who left no doubt that McAtee fired first and that ballistics examinations proved that a national guard bullet killed him.

McAtee family attorney Steve Romines responded on Twitter.

Steve Romines represents the family of #DavidMcAtee. His tweet follows today's revelation that a @kentuckyguard soldier's rifle shot killed McAtee on June 1st. Gov't officials say McAtee fired first. @LMPD officers also returned fire. #Louisville #LouisvilleProtests https://t.co/a3hVOfW7ym

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 10, 2020

J. Michael Brown is a respected attorney and military veteran whose investigative work will likely face little resistance.

During the daily @GovAndyBeshear press conference, cabinet secretary J. Michael Brown has asked multiple reporters to ask questions with a louder voice. "I gave my ears to Uncle Sam."

He was a helicopter pilot in the @USArmy 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SoUMBgM5wF

— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) June 9, 2020