Poor me! Don't shoot!

At Independent Judicial Review, Jason Howerton brings us a video of a traffic stop. Who got stopped? A liberal columnist for the Columbia Daily Tribune. He wrote about the experience in his column, characterizing himself as having been victimized "like a minority." Only one problem: The Boone County Sheriff's office had been using a dash cam, and, after he wrote his "I'm a victim" column, they released the video, which shows he was treated respectfully the whole time. Go here to see the video and read more.

The "I'm a victim" excuse didn't work this time

Jim Hoft has a classic this morning at Gateway Pundit. An angry leftist was verbally abusing a man who was boarding a plane to Seattle after attending the Trump inauguration. Her meek little husband sat there and did nothing, while she spewed hatred on the Trump supporter. When she was removed from the plane, people cheered and shouted USA, USA! The stewardess was very cool, as was the man who informed the woman she was being ejected.

The woman, of course, tried to excuse her behavior by saying she had been attending a funeral of her mother-in-law. Portraying herself as a victim of a traumatic event. Don't they always try to flip it to the victimhood button?

Go here to see two videos of the event, taken by passengers sitting nearby.

Is Charlie Sheen the latest hero/victim?

You may have heard the news about Charlie Sheen being diagnosed HIV-Positive.


Jamie Wilson writes at PJ Media,

''We're talking about shakedowns," Sheen said about hush-money paid thus far. "I've paid people, not that many, but enough to bring it into the millions and what people forget is that's money you've taken from my kids." Yep, it's always all about the children, isn't it? Of course, money's more important than parenting or setting a good example, anyway.

So that's the story, or what we've been told of it. But the unsavory and insipid Sheen will be held up as a hero-victim, just like Bruce Jenner, just like Lamar Odom. This convenient sentimental fiction will recreate Sheen as a liberal media hero. He'll star in a movie extolling the evils of war -- sort of an anti-Platoon -- and talk about his support for Hillary Clinton. Thus he will be redeemed and become a media-anointed hero. His medical status, his bankrupt personal morality, his self-destructive behavior will all be swept away in the cleansing fire of a newfound Progressivism. All the women he may have harmed, all their subsequent sex partners and their family, his terrible life choices and the impact they've had on the people who love him, they will be forgotten.

...Promoting restraint, of course, won't be part of Sheen's rehabilitation. He's already made that clear by talking about having doctor-approved HIV-positive sex without a condom. Because we all know that will work out well in the end.

Read more here.

Meanwhile, satirical blogger Manhattan Infidel also posts about this here.

Is it empowering to play the victim?

Found here.