On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:48:15 -0500, Luke Nichols
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lu...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8SIZ124nK0&feature=uploademail
At last month's Conservative Political Action Conference, Andrew
Breitbart said that he had videos of President Obama in his college
days at Harvard. The implication was that the content of the videos
was so scandalous that it would have an impact on Obama's reelection.
Breitbart gleefully announced that...
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=6388
-- QUOTE
"I have videos. This election we’re going to vet him from his college
days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to
what hope and change was sold in 2008. The videos are going to come
out, the narrative is going to come out."
-- END QUOTE
Well, they came out today. But Breitbart's survivors at
BigGovernment.com had nothing to do with it.
The "vetting" was done by Andrew Kaczynski at Buzzfeed. Kaczynski
acquired video from WGBH TV in Boston of the future president speaking
at a rally for more diversity in the Harvard faculty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tz3qShugQ9I
The Breitbart crew immediately blasted Buzzfeed for releasing what
they said was a "selectively edited" copy of the video.
-- QUOTE
"[T]he video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston
television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day,
Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been
hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia."
-- END QUOTE
Gee, I can hardly wait. This should be endlessly informative since the
Breitbart clan is intimately familiar with the practice of selectively
editing videos.
BigGovernment's Joel Pollak then announced that the unveiling of the
uncut video would take place tonight on Sean Hannity's program on Fox
News.
There's another sign of how much credibility any of this will have.
Hannity is famous for airing videos of sparsely attended Tea Party
rallies that turned out to be from completely different, and crowded,
events.
And then -- Breitbart's site released the "uncut" video and the only
additional footage on it is of Obama embracing the professor he had
just introduced. Hannity and Co. spent over 20 minutes discussing this
embarrassing flop of a scandal.
The most remarkable thing about this video is how little Obama has
changed. He had the same oratorical style and poise then as now. At
the time Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was
speaking on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, the first tenured
African-American professor in Harvard's law school. The occasion was a
rally in support of greater diversity in general, and specifically the
hiring of an African-American woman in the law school.
Pollak further promised to expose Bell as a "radical academic tied to
Jeremiah Wright." I'm surprised that he isn't also tying him to George
Soros, Van Jones, Saul Alinsky, and Che Guevara. However, Bell was a
respected legal scholar and author who served in the Civil Rights
Division of the Department of Justice, at the NAACP as an associate
counsel, as the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law and, in
addition to Harvard, also taught at USC, Stanford, and NYU. Clearly a
dangerous anti-American. But Breitbart's ghost is already setting in
motion the smear campaign.
Perhaps Pollak has portions of the video where Obama advocates the
violent overthrow of the government by black nationalists or discloses
his Kenyan birthplace, but somehow I doubt it. It appears that the
Breitbart folks are just upset that their phony plot to trickle out
snippets of an entirely harmless video in order to create a fake
controversy has been foiled by the lamestream media (if Buzzfeed
qualifies as that). Now they will have to resort to smearing the name
of a deceased law professor and pretending that there is something
wrong with Obama supporting a more diversified Harvard faculty
Fox Nation has already jumped in with an item about this story
headlined: Obama Harvard Video: Rally for Race-Based Hiring. So
there's your talking point, you righttwing mongoloid idiots. Go to it.