Colin Flaherty
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Born | Colin Patrick Flaherty June 25, 1955 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
Occupation | Author, commentator, owner of Flaherty Communications |
Website | www |
Colin Patrick Flaherty (June 25, 1955 – January 11, 2022) was an American writer, talk show host and business owner. His by-line appeared in dozens of languages around the world, and he was a guest on numerous local and national TV and radio programs on NPR, ABC, CBS, Fox and other networks, and in Bloomberg BusinessWeek after he submitted a business tip to "Today's Tip".[1]
He is best known for doing a story for the San Diego Reader that secured the release of Kelvin Wiley after showing that he was unjustly convicted for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Flaherty was the owner of Flaherty Communications, a public relations, marketing communications and online advertising company. He resided in San Diego, California and Wilmington, Delaware. He had two children, but was single at the time of his death.
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Early life
Colin Flaherty was born in Wilmington, Delaware, where he attended grade school at Christ Our King. In 1967, his brother Kevin was Killed in Action in Vietnam.
While attending Salesianum School for Boys, he was recognized with Letter of Commendation in the National Merit Scholarship Program. He also served as president of his parish, then diocesan Catholic Youth Organization.
In the summer of 1972, he was arrested while protesting the re-nomination of Richard Nixon as President of the United States. The picture of his arrest appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and on the inside of Hunter Thompson’s book on the 1972 campaign. In 1996, he wrote about his two days in jail with poet Alan Ginsburg, and subsequent conversion to the Republican Party, for San Diego Magazine.
He attended the University of Delaware in 1974, and was elected to be the Student Representative to the Faculty Senate. He left the University to join the James E. Strates Shows, a carnival that traveled to state and country fairs up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United States.
After living and working in the Florida Keys for two years, he traveled around the country on a motorcycle for six months, landing back in Wilmington in the Fall of 1976. Three months later, he hitchhiked to California, arriving Thanksgiving Day.
Books
In 2011, Flaherty published Redwood to Deadwood: A 53-year Old Dude Hitchhikes Around America Again. He wrote the book after remembering that lots of people used to hitchhike, but few do now. "Before I tucked my thumb in for the final time, I’d almost get murdered, run with wild horses, visit a pot plantation, get into crazy family feuds with my own and other families, restart my business, ride in cop cars, hunt big game, poach big game, get chased by a helicopter, reconnect with old friends, make new ones, get tired and exhilarated and lost and found and scorned and accepted, kicked out and invited in. That and a lot more. I now know how to cook muskrat, squirrel and rochchuks."
In June 2011, he won First Place in the Washington Post Spy Novel Writer's Contest. The contest was judged by Washington Post editor and best selling author David Ignatius, who said Flaherty's work was his "strong favorite," and it "advances the story and twists it in a new and interesting direction, very deftly."[2] His winning entry was the subject of a radio show on WDEL,[3] a small radio station in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 2012, Flaherty published White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It, regarding race and crime. It was met with critical acclaim by Thomas Sowell and John Derbyshire; however, it was criticized by, in the words of Flaherty's supporters, media apologists for Black on White violence.[4]
In 2014, Flaherty published Knockout game a Lie?: Awww, Hell No!, disputing the mainstream media's claims that the knockout game is a lie or a myth.
In 2015, Flaherty published Don't Make the Black Kids Angry: The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it about how "the traditional excuses -- jobs, poverty, schooling, whatever -- for black crime and mayhem were not working any longer" and new excuses were needed.
Business and professional career
Colin Flaherty attended the University of California, San Diego, where he was awarded the Regents Scholarship, "the most distinguished recognition the Board of Regents can offer a student." After attending school and working on a number of political campaigns, Flaherty was hired to be a council representative to San Diego City Councilman Uvaldo Martinez in 1982.[5]
Four years later, he was hired to cover city hall for the San Diego Business Journal.[6] After less than one year on the job, the San Diego Press Club named Flaherty their top political reporter and the Best of Show.[7] He also covered San Diego for United Press International, the San Diego Reader and San Diego Magazine. He was a frequent guest and guest host on local TV and radio shows.
Over the next ten years, he would win more than 50 journalism awards. In 1992, he was recognized for writing a story that resulted in the release of Kelvin Wiley from state prison because he showed Wiley was unjustly convicted. The story was also the subject of a feature on Court TV.[8]
He also represented heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield when someone stole the champ's boxing shorts after his successful bout with Larry Holmes. Holyfield considered the shorts his lucky charm.
He started Flaherty Communications in 1992, where he represented some of the biggest companies in San Diego during difficult public relations battles, especially regarding land use.
He occasionally taught a class at the University of California on Interviewing and Researching techniques for journalists. He was also a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and Point Loma Nazarene College.
He commuted between California and the East Coast, where he was a frequent co-host of a talk radio show on WDEL in Wilmington, Delaware. Archives of his show can be found at WeBuildTheSun.com.
Colin Flaherty died of cancer on January 11, 2022. He was 66 years old.[9]
YouTube Video Channel
Fhaherty also had a large number of videos on YouTube that dealt with many of the same subjects in his books. They are still available on other video-sharing websites.[10]
Bibliography
Books
- Redwood to Deadwood: Hitchhiking America Today
- 'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It at Amazon
- Knockout Game a Lie? Aww, Hell No!: The most complete collections of links and videos on the Knockout Game
- 'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it
Articles
- Bruce Willis Whitewashes Black Crime
- Kat Timpf Makes the Black Kid Angry
- BART Officials Hide Videos of Black Mob Violence
- Philly Figures It Out: White Racism Causes Black Crime
- Fox's 'Gang of Five': Blind to Black Mob Violence.
- Black People: Don’t You Worry About ‘Bout a Thing. Kat Timpf Will Save You
- White People Always Steal from Black People – So Does Oprah
- Reporters Sleep as 60 Black People Rob a BART Train in Oakland
- You Can’t Fire Bill O’Reilly
- Shattered: A New Fairy Tale about How Hillary ‘Forgot’ White Voters
- A Tale of Violence in Two Cities: Augusta and Biloxi
- Crime Is the New Black Entitlement
- White Social Justice Warrior Dies at Hands of Black Killer
- Capitulating to Black Racism
- Chris Matthews and SPLC Fall for Hoax Even the NYT Says Is a Lie...Again
- Trump and Obama's Legacy of Racism
- Forget Milwaukee: Cedar Rapids Had Much Better Black Mob Violence and Denial
- White-on-Black Violence Is Everywhere, Says AP
- A True Story of 'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot' for Hillary’s Convention
- Trump’s Answer to Black-on-Cop Murder
- Media Ignore the Tsunami of Black Violence against Cops
- The Great Racial Hoax of Albany
- Sympathy for the Devil... But None for White Victims of Violence
- Farrakhan and the Philly Police Shooting: Why Hide His Light Beneath a Basket?
- Black Mob Violence: Easier to Find. Harder to Believe.
- D.C. NPR Family Another Victim of Black Violence and Denial
- America's Newest Christmas Tradition: Black Mob Violence at Malls
- Biggest Liar of 2015: The Washington Post and Its Pinocchios
- Federal Judge Who Outlawed Racial Profiling is Victim of Black Mob Violence
- Another Big Lie Exposed: Black Cop Writes Fake Racist Letter
- Trump a Liar? The Real Story about Deceit in Racial Crime Numbers
- White Racism at Mizzou and Berkeley: Racial Hoaxes of the Week
- George Will drew first blood
- Black People Must Be Livid at the Keystone Job Killer-In-Chief
- Cops Fired For Telling the Truth about Black Violence
- Black Guns Are Easy to See. Black People, Not So Much
- Too Many Black People in Prison -- And Other Fairy Tales
- Elizabeth Warren Goes Crazy for Black Lives Matter
- Piece of String Creates Hate Crime Panic
- Black Violence Matters
- Black Man Suffers Another Racist Beating -- in Whole Foods?
- Black Violence in Schools: White People to Blame
- Marco Rubio: The Newest Member of Black Lives Matter.
- Colin Flaherty vs. YouTube
- Camera Saves Cop from Racial Hostility -- Again
- De-Policing: the Scariest Word of the Year
- The New James Baldwin Speaks: White People Suck
- Panic in Pittsburgh: Media Struggling to Ignore Black Mob Violence
- As long as we're eliminating symbols of past racism...
- Obama Channels Reverend Wright
- The War on Black People in South Carolina: the First Casualty is Truth.
- Black Mob Violence In Swimming Pools. A Long History
- The Ballad of Jaquise
- Pulitzer Committee to Reporters: Drop Dead
- Stop Fixating on Black Violence -- If You Can
- Killer Mike Is A Good Guy
- Black Judge heaps Scorn on Three-year old Racist
- Black city councilman breaks the silence on black on white crime
- Spring Break Violence is a Black College Thing
- The Old Man and the Sea of Black Mob Violence
- Starbucks Fights Racism. Racism Fights Back.
- Conservatives Blind to Racism, says RedState Seer
- Black Mob Violence Spreads as the President Preaches Victimization in Selma
- The Biggest Lie of Our Generation: Ferguson Was All About Traffic Tickets
- Forget The Terrorists: Malls Already Under Attack from Black Mob Violence
- Black Grievance Month Gets Off to Delicious Start
- Another Bogus Academic Study Creates Bogus Headlines
- Documented: Black Students Target Teachers for Violence
- Black Mob Violence at Christmas, All Over the Country
- A New Poster Child for Black on White Crime
- The Brooklyn Slaughter and the End of Gotcha
- Searching for the Next Michael Brown
- A big target of racial hostility
- Racial Fairy Tales from the NAACP
- Black Crime Claims Life of Apologist for Black Crime
- Black Mob Violence Now a Sickness
- Ebola: Three Million HazMat Suits on the Way
- Racial Hostility and Violence on Campus
- Black Mob Violence on Campus: Soft Targets Everywhere
- Bus Driver Organizes Black Mob Violence Against White Family
- New Cure for Racial Violence in Minneapolis: Crack down on the victims.
- Black Mob Violence: So many Stories, not enough Room
- Racial Disparity is a Bitch
- Seven Minutes in September
- Black Crime in Baltimore High -- but Should be Higher
- The Racial Violence Epidemic in Milwaukee that the Local Media Dismiss
- Anthony Cumia Gets Attacked... then Fired.
- Memorial Day Racial Violence Even More Widespread than Previously Reported
- Widespread Memorial Day Black Violence Ignored by National Media
- Muzzling Readers in Detroit
- Knocking out the Deniers
- Black Mob Violence: New Denials... and New Violence
- Open Season on Jews?
- Violence Comes to Temple
- Rough Times in Kansas City
- The Blood Flows in Rochester
- Ebony and Black Violence
External links
- Colin Flaherty's Official website
- Colin Flagerty's Hooktube Channel
- Archived videos of Colin Flaherty on Odysee and on Bitchute
- Articles about his passing on Counter-CurrentsAmerican Renaissance and Unz.com
References
- ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/tips/archives/2011/04/draw_more_attention_to_your_business.html
- ↑ "Summer Spy Serial". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/conversations/summer-spy-serial/sweets-for-the-sweet.html.
- ↑ http://webuildthesun.com/Welcome_to_the_Podcasts/Entries/2011/6/24_WDEL_62411_Contest_win.html
- ↑ http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/white-girl-bleed-a-lot/
- ↑ Jones, Lanie (1985-05-25). "Growth-Limiting Initiative Gains Steam for Fall Ballot". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1985-05-25/local/me-15504_1.
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AColin%20Flaherty&field-author=Colin%20Flaherty
- ↑ Romney, Lee (1992-10-02). "Times Takes 3 First-Place Prizes in Press Club Awards". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-02/local/me-273_1_times-reporter.
- ↑ http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/media/San-Diego-Magazine/October-1995/Who-Are-We-AND-WHERE-ARE-WE-GOING/
- ↑ https://www.dohertyfh.com/obituary/Colin-Flaherty
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