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Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail after getting found guilty of charges related to the suicide of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi. As far as we know, Ravi's not gay -- and Andrea Peyser's a hypocrite.

In a column about a Rutgers University student who committed suicide because he was publicly humiliated by his freshman roommate for being gay, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser publicly humiliates the roommate -- who by all accounts is not gay -- by claiming that he's a "possible closet case."

She then calls Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who received a slap on the wrist for his involvement in the 2010 suicide death of Tyler Clementi, a "doofus douchebag" before arguing that just about everyone who'd ever met Clementi should be charged with a crime in his suicide.

Clementi, as you probably know, jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September of 2010 after he learned that Ravi had recorded him making out with a man in the dorm room the two shared. The case brought national attention to the issue of cyber-bullying and the struggles of LGBT youth.

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Phil Mushnick: people like Jay-Z are responsible for the word "nigga."

*UPDATE* Mushnick defends himself further by claiming he's not a racist because he outed Marge Schott. Click here for details.

Since our prior post about New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick's column suggesting the Brooklyn Nets should change their name to the "New York Niggers," Mushnick sent us an explanation of his offensive column.

It's pretty lame -- he basically says we can thank rappers (read: black people) like Jay-Z for the term "nigga," a word he assures us he doesn't use. He says our suggestion that his (terrible) attempt at satire was racist is "wishful and foolish."

See his explanation below.

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No shocker here, but a New York Post op-ed contributor is peddling the same misleading bullshit about minimum wage increases that opponents always peddle.

Enter Nicole Gelinas.

Raising minimum wage -- as per the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act -- is "left-wing social engineering." (Classic Post prose, really.)

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This happened.

Did you know that complaining about racism makes you unpatriotic and means that you have a (bad) attitude toward America?

Well, it doesn't, but that's what the New York Post's Abby Schachter suggests.

"Bill Maher pretty much summed up the left's attitude toward the United States when he declared that Barack Obama came up from poverty to become 'the first black president of the racist states of America,' she writes.

For Schachter, of course, this is evidence that, "according to liberals like Maher, nothing has changed in all that time. This country is racist, many liberals believe, so it ever was and so it shall ever be. The election of a black president has done nothing to change our nation's true nature, says the left, because at its heart this is a racist country."

Somehow, Maher's one comment corroborates something about all liberals and suggests that white people get the short end of the stick. Oh, and apparently, the Trayvon Martin case is an example of "the liberal racist narrative."

She really said all this!

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The New York Police Department, not Muslims, is the victim of profiling.

At least that's what one op-ed writer at the New York Post wants you to think.

Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a physician in New York and author of In the Land of Invisible Women took to the tabloid's opinion pages today to explain that cops should not come under fire for spying on entire Muslim neighborhoods.

She writes: "The true wrong here is done by a biased media and a suspicious, maneuvering minority within the Muslim minority. Their distortions have unapologetically cast the NYPD, the CIA, Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as bigoted racists violating basic American ideals."

Oy.

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The Post is a bit beside itself this morning, unable to process the position of fracking opponents.

It's not simply that the editorial board disagrees with them and published an opinion piece explaining why -- the board can't wrap its head around the fact that dissenting opinion should have weight in the first place.

For the Post, the real dangers of hydraulic fracturing don't have much to do with health or environmental concerns. No. For that paper's opinion staff, it seems like the main problem with fracking is that people complain about it -- and that the democratic process might delay development.

Seriously.

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Yesterday, Runnin' Scared brought you news of Picture the Homeless' funding fracas.

The Bronx-based non-profit has received $240,000 in public money over the last five years, but payouts got frozen this week as the City Council investigates squatting allegations.

Picture the Homeless says that the City's move stems from a New York Post story claiming that a non-profit member taught illegal squatting classes on the taxpayers' dime -- an allegation the group disputes.

Now, Picture the Homeless is strongly considering legal action against the tabloid.

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The Post reports this morning on William Bratton, a former NYPD commissioner who apparently has a permit that lets him park anywhere in the city. For free!

So what's up? Bratton was spotted Wednesday parking his Lexus SUV in a "no standing zone" for an hour, and is said to have had a permit "for official use only...emblazoned with two NYPD shields and expires Feb. 1, 2013." Government officials have since told the paper these placards are only supposed to be "for official use" which would disqualify someone like Bratton, who no longer works for the City. Some NYPD top brass counter that "former police commissioners are entitled to placards."

Runnin' Scared reached out to the NYPD for clarification. The tabloid, true to Post form, has already called Bratton both a "fishy commishy" and a "perk jerk." Of course, the Post's arsenal of jeux de mots is never ending. Some predictions for the paper's follow-up?

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Ryan Beauchamp is in custody.

​Call off the dogs...

The New York City Police Department confirms to the Voice that Ryan Beauchamp, a possible suspect in the death of a man hit by a train at a Brooklyn subway station Friday night, is currently being questioned by police.

Beauchamp, 33, was picked up about 2 p.m. today on Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn.

Beauchamp has been wanted for questioning in the death of 20-year-old Joshua Basin since police identified him as a possible suspect yesterday.

About 10 p.m. Friday, NYPD officers responded to a call that a man had been hit by a train at the Bedford Avenue subway station.

The responding officers determined that the victim, Basin, was arguing with the unidentified suspect while the two were riding on the "L" train.

When the two men exited the train, the suspect started a physical fight with Basin that resulted with both men falling onto the tracks. The suspect managed to get off the tracks and flee on foot. Basin wasn't so lucky -- he was hit by an oncoming train.

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Andrew Cuomo's BFF, Fred Dicker.

​Fred Dicker, New York Post state capitol bureau chief/Governor Andrew Cuomo's number one fan, has again irked the "occupiers" up in Albany, where activists gathered at the state capitol this morning to protest Dicker, Cuomo and News Corps., the parent company of the Post.

Calling him the "mouthpiece for Governor One Percent (Cuomo)," the occupiers stormed the capitol about 9:30 a.m. to bash Dicker and his amigo in New York's executive branch.

"There is no love lost between Dicker and the Occupy movement," Colin Donnaruma, a spokesman for the Occupy Albany movement, tells the Voice.

In a handout distributed at this morning's demonstration, the occupiers say that "while ostensibly a journalist, Dicker has raised eyebrows over the past year for his constant, breathless praise of Cuomo, even as the Governor has broken repeated promises to clean up Albany while pushing an agenda against the interests of working families in the state." 

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