The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

Upright: “I think the narrative that the police are in some epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative and also the narrative that’s based on race. The fact is that it is very rare for an unarmed African American to be shot by a white police officer.” —Attorney General William Barr

For the record I: “I’ve talked to every police chief in every city where there has been major violence and they all have identified antifa as the ramrod for the violence. They are flying around the country. We know people who are flying around the country. We see some of the purchases they are making before the riots of weapons to use in those riots.” —William Barr

For the record II: “Everyone knows there are different rules for Black Lives Matter. If a conservative movement with the cachet and corporate support of BLM staged an event featuring a single act of arson, the group would be shunned and its cause discredited. That this would never happen to BLM acts as a giant permission slip, and it’s not Trump writing it, but all the people now blaming him for the rioting.” —Rich Lowery

For the record III: “The same media that excoriated Trump for condemning violence ‘on many sides’ in Charlottesville suddenly found it in their hearts to pretend that Biden’s radically unspecific rhetoric actually covered the evils of BLM and antifa.” —Ben Shapiro 

For the record IV: “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris didn’t mention the riots once during the DNC convention. Lives had been lost, cities and businesses ruined, but no mention. They didn’t care until it became a political liability for their campaign.” —Lisa Boothe

For the record V: “Seconds after saying the judicial system should work its way, Biden calls for charging the officer who shot Jacob Blake. Which is it Joe? Wait for the judicial system or charge the officer? But the news is Biden calls for charging the officer. Biden made no similar call to charge the person in Portland who shot Aaron Danielson. He says that one should be investigated.” —Ari Fleischer

Friendly fire: “So the speaker of the House is blaming the salon after she didn’t wear a mask indoors. Tonight, the salon owner is denying it was a setup. Regardless, this far into the pandemic, the House speaker should know what is safe and what isn’t. We should all know. It’s our responsibility. Instead of claiming a setup, [it] would have been just as easy for the speaker to say, ‘You know what? I messed up. I should have worn a mask indoors.’” —CNN’s Don Lemon

Alpha jackass: “[Trump] better have an army if he thinks he’s gonna walk down the street in New York. New Yorkers don’t want to have anything to do with him. He can’t have enough bodyguards to walk through New York City. People don’t want to have anything to do with him.” —Governor Andrew Cuomo

And last… “We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.” —Thomas Sowell