To Protect And Serve...

...white people?

From the Boston Globe:

An officer in the Boston Police Department has been suspended after allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, a law enforcement official said.

The law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Officer Justin Barrett referred to the black scholar as a “jungle monkey’’ in the letter, written in reaction to news coverage of Gates’s arrest July 16. Barrett was suspended Tuesday, pending a termination hearing.

In an interview that WCVB-TV aired last night, Barrett said he used “a poor choice of words.’’

“I did not mean to offend anyone,’’ he said. “The words were being used to characterize behavior, not describe anyone . . . I didn’t mean it in a racist way. I treat everyone with dignity and respect.’’

Barrett and his lawyer said they will fight the charges. “People are making it about race. It is not about race,’’ Barrett said.

Well, Officer Barrett, that's a helluva display of "dignity and respect." And if it's "not about race," just what the hell was it about? The Boston Police Benevolent Association's mascot?

Say You're Sorry Or I'm Gonna Hold My Breath Until My Face Turns Blue!

That's Michigan Republican Thaddeus McCotter. He's got a lot of time on his hands.

Rep. McCotter seems blissfully unaware that his state's economic problems and chronic unemployment lead a nation with more than enough of both to go around. Is Rep. McCotter really representing the people of his state by working diligently to find solutions to their plight?

Hell, no!

Thaddeus McCotter seems to be working on behalf of the Cambridge Police Department's bruised feelings, as he is wasting time preparing to introduce a resolution demanding that President Obama formally apologize for saying they acted "stupidly" in the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

McCotter said on Friday that he would introduce the measure unless Obama apologized to Sgt. James Crowley. Today, his office says he's moving ahead with that ridiculous plan.

I'm sure the millions of unemployed in Michigan appreciate a representative from their troubled state acting on behalf of a police department from another state, over 600 miles away.

McCotter is the same idiot who also said on Friday that the health care debate was "reaching the point of absurdity."

Rep. McCotter, that point has been reached, all right--by you.

(Cross-posted on Daily Kos.)