The Ferguson feeding frenzy
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
The most poisonous “-ism” now infecting Ferguson,
Missouri, is not virulent racism. It’s viral
narcissism.
Over the past two weeks, the impoverished St.
Louis County suburb has become a magnet for
self-absorbed publicity seekers of all colors and
agendas.
Perhaps the most repulsive species on display in Ferguson is the Journalisto Vanitatis. This breed of egotistical East-Coast reporters can be easily identified by its ever-present appendages: a smartphone and smart glasses. For the J.V., the story is all about “me, me, me!” Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly and Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery were among the first and most prominent Beltway journos to parachute into the Ferguson protests.
Admiring media colleagues hang on the J.V.’s
every tweet and selfie. When Reilly and Lowery were
“arrested” (that is, detained briefly and released)
amid the chaos, they morphed into civil rights
heroes. Both complained indignantly about not being
read their “Miranda rights.” Never mind that they
were neither arrested nor interrogated, the two
basic preconditions for Miranda warnings.
The J.V.’s have been hailed for their “courage”
on the “front lines” — like veritable 21st-century
versions of Audie Murphy and Ernie Pyle! Of course,
Audie Murphy and Ernie Pyle would know real bullets
when they saw them. But Reilly revealed his abject
cluelessness this week when he hysterically tweeted
a photo of what he thought were “rubber bullets.”
They turned out to be high-capacity… ear plugs.
Not to be outdone, J.V. Chris Hayes of MSNBC
squealed about being threatened with mace and
simpered about being confined in a press area —
created by police for the safety of meandering
interlopers gawking at rioters and looters. Later,
he breathlessly trumpeted seeing a “dead body,”
which turned out to be neither dead nor a body.
While New York journalists have
applauded reporters making themselves a part of the
story, locals demonstrated their own opinion of
MSNBC’s journalism on Monday night — by
pelting Hayes and one of his co-anchors with rocks.
A close cousin of the Journalisto Vanitatus is
the omniscient Albinus Hipsterex.
These white progressives can’t resist the
opportunity to raise their fists and chant “F**k the
police” to show they’re down with the cause.
Leftovers from the defunct Occupy Wall Street
movement are now occupying West Florissant Avenue in
Ferguson to make excuses for the vandals and thieves
victimizing immigrant-owned convenience stores. The
absurdity of these critters was best illustrated
earlier this week in a candid photo of a trio of
Albinus Hipsterii: two bandana-clad, tattooed
anarchists strapping a gas mask onto a young woman
sporting a tie-dyed shirt stretched across her
heavily pregnant belly.
Next on the scene: Canis Celebritus — also known
as the Celebrity Hound Dog. Rapper Nelly best
epitomizes this attention-seeking creature. He
jetted down to Ferguson to preach peaceful social
justice. Some in attendance took note of the wealthy
rapper’s ostentatious protest attire: massive
diamond earrings as big as some of the rocks
protesters hurled at hapless Hayes. Not-so-wise
Nelly told residents not to “overreact,” while
accusing police of purposefully inflaming protesters
in the same breath. He lectured the crowd to have a
plan. But when asked to outline his own, he said he
didn’t have one, and his large megaphone went
silent.
Accompanying Canis Celebritus are members of the
infamous class of hucksters who belong to a class
I’ll dub Divisio Demagogus. Chief agitators include
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Marc Lamont Hill, Van
Jones and Malik Shabazz. These race-hustling
pot-stirrers have made their names concocting
hate-crime hoaxes, inciting violence against police
and deepening racial and ethnic division for
decades. Their total lack of self-awareness never
ceases to amaze. Hatemonger Shabazz, who repped the
lying Duke lacrosse rape case liar, dropped into
Ferguson to proclaim: “We’re not going to let agent
provocateurs ruin things tonight.”
From the L.A. riots to Hurricane Katrina to Ferguson, an eternal truth endures: Tragedy is the mother of poisonous pretension.
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2014