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Under the First Amendment, talking trash--what police acidly call "contempt of cop"--isn't by itself punishable unless you alarm a crowd while doing it. Thus, many cases are eventually dropped, as Gates' was. Nor is his the first to carry overtones of discrimination: Rosa Parks was convicted after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger...
...that doesn't mean the President always behaves like a gentleman. As in basketball, Obama is a trash-talk enthusiast who tries to get into the heads of his opponents and sucker them into taking more difficult shots. "He is very strategic about his use of it," says Eugene Kang, the 25-year-old White House special-projects coordinator, who played with the President at Andrews Air Force Base in late June. "It's always fun to make the putt and give him a nice little look at the end." (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...
...Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...
Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...