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Is this being called BeerGate?
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Is this being called BeerGate?
Coors’ Blue Moon to shine at White House Gates-Crowley peace gathering
Denver Business Journal - by Ed Sealover
The most anticipated White House beer-drinking gathering in memory will involve the president of the United States, a Harvard professor, a Cambridge policeman — and the product of a Golden brewer.
Cambridge, Mass., Police Sgt. James Crowley requested Blue Moon as his beer of choice at the upcoming meeting with President Barack Obama and Harvard Professor Henry Gates, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Blue Moon Brewing Co. is owned by Coors Brewing Co. of Golden. Its namesake beer was created in 1995.
Blue Moon evidently is a favorite of Crowley's. According to New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly, Crowley was sipping one at a pub Friday when Obama called him to invite him to a White House meeting.
Gates is expected to drink a Beck’s or a Red Stripe at the gathering, while Obama is likely to have a Budweiser, according to a transcript from Monday’s White House press briefing. (See below.)
On July 16, Crowley, who is white, responded to a report of two black men in backpacks allegedly trying to break into a house at Cambridge and found Gates and his driver trying to enter Gates’ house when the front door would not open.
Gates, who is black, became angry and loudly questioned whether the action was a racist one, and Crowley arrested him on su ion of disorderly conduct.
Obama said later that Cambridge police had “acted stupidly” in the incident, but later back-pedaled after coming under pressure from some members of Congress for his choice of words.
The president then invited Crowley and Gates to the White House for a beer later this week.
Here is an excerpt from Monday’s White House press briefing by press secretary Robert Gibbs, as provided by the White House. (The reporters asking questions weren’t identified.)
Question: OK. And another subject, Officer Crowley is drinking Blue Moon, we hear Professor Gates is drinking Red Stripe or Becks -- what’s the president drinking?
Gibbs: The president had a Budweiser at the All-Star Game, so -- why are you looking at me like that? That’s what he drank.
Q: We’re talking Blue Moon, Red Stripe, Becks --
Gibbs: What’s wrong with Budweiser? Why do you hate Budweiser? (Laughter.)
Q: Well, he could get —
Gibbs: Why do you hate Budweiser, Wendell? (Laughter.) Wendell, how about this — How about you and I, we’ll go pick out the beer, we’ll do the beer run. ... (Laughter.)
Q: I’m happy to do that.
Gibbs: ... We’ll go on the beer run together and pick it up in anticipation of the meeting.
Q: Pretzel or chips?
Gibbs: Say again?
Q: Pretzel or chips?
Gibbs: We’re just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.
I like your sig
and the failing continues.
get over it.
gates lost.
cop won.
president, nonpresidential.
queue dumpfail in 5..........4............3..............2.......... .and fail.
Cue more Esfailas in 5..........4............3..............2.......... .and fail.
Stop being a pussy and think for one second, okay. Are you honestly going to tell me that Gates has never wanted to punch Crowley? If you were in Gates' situation or if you were Gates, you're gonna tell me that you wouldn't want to punch Crowley?
Obama is a big affirmative action supporter. He believes in rewarding people solely based on their skin color and not on their experience, qualifications, and talent.
Obama should have had a Zima but Zima is discontinued now.
Seriously, if Sotomayor had been a white woman with a last name of Jones or Smith, the media coverage would have been minimal. People wouldn't have cared that much.
Not everyone wants to punch everyone else all the time. Quit projecting your own impotent rage on other people.
Untrue. Otherwise, he would be appointing people off the street and he wouldn't have appointed any white people to any position.Obama is a big affirmative action supporter. He believes in rewarding people solely based on their skin color and not on their experience, qualifications, and talent.
I bet you want to punch the guy who discontinued Zima.Obama should have had a Zima but Zima is discontinued now.
People always care about SCOTUS nominations. The last couple were white dudes and they received a lot of attention. You were just too busy wanting to punch black people to notice.Seriously, if Sotomayor had been a white woman with a last name of Jones or Smith, the media coverage would have been minimal. People wouldn't have cared that much.
Evidently, the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
Gates' daughter weighs in:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...e-beer-summit/
In a world in which the conversation on race has traditionally taken a back seat to both logic and reason, it’s no wonder that yesterday’s so-called “Beer Summit” at the White House seemed to make little sense at all. It wasn’t because the President was wrong in offering up a few cold ones to my father, Henry Louis Gates, and the now infamous Sergeant James Crowley in an attempt to tame the media blitz around my father’s arrest—it was because like most issues that make their way to TMZ, the reference point had shifted. The debate over Red Stripe and Blue Moon had somehow overshadowed the fact that this story began with a black Harvard professor and a white cop from Natick, Mass—and as CNN’s countdown clock to the event taunted viewers like a time bomb, it was clear that this day wasn’t going to be the beginning of a serious discussion on human relations but rather a circus-like ending of a misunderstanding between a couple of very decent men.
I can’t say that I was shocked.
As our family rounded the corner to the White House library and I first caught sight of Sergeant Crowley’s lovely 14-year old daughter—who was wearing an appropriately heavy and charmingly untrained amount of green eyeliner on her lower lashes—we were instantly transported from the post-racial myth of America in 2008 to the reality of 2009. There they stood, a pleasant family of five, listening patiently to the overzealous tour guide boast about the fully functioning fireplace to the left of the doorframe.
As soon as my father’s foot crossed the threshold of the room, the storm of mediators immediately rushed to introduce us, but true to form, my father cut right through the thick tension of hurried salutations and offered the Sgt. his hand and joked, “You looked bigger the last time I saw you.” Crowley’s cheeks flushed red as a smile dashed across his lips, and his young son, whose cheeks had long since flushed the same muted crimson, looked up at his father and smiled. This wasn’t a family raised on hate. At that moment, right there in the library, they were just like us: a young family groomed to perfection, waiting to learn how to get those damn cameramen off their lawn and to put this sensationalized behind them.
Moments later, the Sergeant and my father were escorted to the Rose Garden where the press sat waiting “at least 40 feet away” while the rest of us continued on with our tour. As we walked by a set of French doors that gave a clear view of this highly anticipated talk, and I saw Mr. Obama’s lean body coolly draped over a lawn chair I wondered what these four men—President Obama, Vice President Biden, Sgt. Crowley and my father—could possibly say to heal this situation and what the press was actually waiting for. Would my father and Sgt. Crowley be reduced to who they were on that fateful day in my father’s house on Ware Street and give us all a glimpse of what really happened? Or could it be that this small collection of men were actually devising some master plan to rid the world of all racist tendencies right there in the Presidential Rose Garden over a few brewskis? No. That would have been impossible to achieve—even on Obama’s best day and even if my father had actually finished his Sam Adams.
Discrimination is the single greatest wound in American history and could never be solved over a beer. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. There are more black men in prison than in college and literally thousands of black men are arrested across this country each day. And while I might agree with the President’s initial statement that the “Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly,” my father is not the first nor will he be the last black man to be arrested for no reason—in his own home or elsewhere—and Sgt. Crowley isn’t the first officer to fudge a police report. They are simply pawns in the rebirth of unfashionable intolerance in a world that likes to think our dashing brown-skinned 44th President has emerged to make nice with the past, present, and future. It’s an impossible task for the President and speaks more to our nation’s vulnerable value system than the unfortunately common situation my father and the Cambridge police found themselves embroiled in. As my father said on the plane yesterday morning on our way to the White House, “there are approximately 800,000 black men in prison and on July 16, 2009, I simply became one of them.”
^Her and the FLOTUS should get together over an Appletini and discuss their mutual greivances.
I agree that discrimination could never be solved over a beer.
Guliani: Lesson from the "teachable moment"? Shut up!
911 rudy!
who is rudy guliani? And why should we care what he says?
Glad to see you researched ur 2008 presidential candidates..
his campaign was forgettable.
What did this meeting accomplish other than Obama getting his picture taken? Seriously, this whole thing was an epic fail. It solved nothing and accomplished zero. Gates still hates Crowley and vice versa.
Mission Accomplished.
What proof do you have that they still hate each other?
None. What proof do you have that they don't hate each other?
They met and their families talked for a bit and I believe they agreed to meet again.
Funny, Obama basically did some alternative dispute resolution. It was largely for the photo op, but getting people to sit down and talk out their issues sends a good message, in my opinion. Not every contentious issue has to end in litigation and animosity.
you're wrong. i can't believe he sat down with these guys without pre-conditions.
its like sitting down with almonddeanajhad.
If you were in Gates' situation, you know in your heart that you would want to beat the out of that cop. Just imagine you get arrested for breaking into your own house and you and Obama sit down to talk to the cop that arrested you. You're honestly going to tell me that you wouldn't like to punch the cop? I think this whole thing shows how much of a dumbass Obama is. The economy is ed up, the unemployment rate is going up, and this guy is sitting down to have a beer with these two bozos and Uncle Joe? There are more important things going on in America than this stupid bag professor and the dumbass cop.
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