OMG THEY’RE DATING! Obama was playing matchmaker all along: “CAMBRIDGE (WBZ) ― Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley were spotted at a pub in Cambridge Wednesday night. The owner of ‘River Gods’ told WBZ the two sat in a booth together and talked for about an hour.” Who slipped whom the mickey? [WBZ]

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Everybody thought it was so awesome when President Obama invited over the hostile white cop and the indignant black professor for domestic beers at his house, but did you know he is not even letting these people inside? “‘[W]eather permitting, the three men will meet at a picnic table outside the Oval Office,” reports the Boston Globe. Then, in a moment of tragic irony, the president will excuse himself for a potty break, realize he’s locked himself out of his house, decide to just whizz in the bushes instead, and all three men will be executed by the Secret Service, the end. [Political Intelligence]

Uh oh, Nobama has been gettin’ the business ever since he said those Cambridge Coppers acted STUPIDLY when they arrested the black guy in his house, for yelling. So here he is offering his unique Obamapology at today’s White House Press Briefing, saying he could have “calibrated those words differently.” Okay! Huh? It was definitely rather sloppy and STUPID of him to get involved in the case like that. Why even bother reforming health care, after this comment? [YouTube]

• SKIP GATES CLEARED OF CHARGES OF LOUDMOUTHING TO COPS: “Disorderly conduct charges filed against one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars have been dropped, local media reported on Tuesday.” And for all you people who have been saying, “Well maybe Gates was just being an abrasive dick to the police and he should know better,” you are encouraged to read his lawyer’s version of events. [Reuters]

One detail in the “famous Harvard professor whom even non-academics may have seen on that TV special with Oprah looked like scary intruder to neighbor” story that did not make sense was that part where the neighbor — the lady who called the cops was a neighbor — did not recognize the famous Harvard professor trying to get into his own house. Well, now we have our answer: sounds like the scary intruder she spotted may have been his cab driver. MORE »

The very serene and affable Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested Thursday after a lady called the cops in the middle of the day, reporting that she saw a man apparently trying to break into a nearby house. MORE »