Andrew Breitbart Still Making Headlines – Media Still Spinning For Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, March 8, 2012, 9:15 PM
Some things never change…
Despite his untimely death a week ago, conservative super-star Andrew Breitbart is still making headlines in the state-run media. And, despite the growing distrust of the media in America, the democrat-media complex is still propping up Barack Obama and arguing that attacks against him are “racist” in nature.
Yahoo carried the water for Obama tonight insisting that the Obama Harvard video was not a serious attack.
Andrew Breitbart’s promised video of Barack Obama’s college days at Harvard University was released in full on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Wednesday night—and unlike the late conservative provocateur’s other video hits, this one appears to be a bit of a dud.
The video—which sent some conservatives into a frenzy when Breitbart told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last month that he had the footage—shows Obama, then a Harvard law student, introducing former Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell, who Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak called the “Jeremiah Wright of academia.”
Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree had the footage from 1990 and is shown presenting it to an audience after the 2008 election. “We hid this during the 2008 campaign,” Ogletree can be heard saying. “I don’t care if they find it now.”
Pollak and conservatives contend that the video is another example of Obama’s history of chumminess with radicals, and the proof of the left’s continuing efforts to cover it up.
But as PBS’ Andrew Golis noted, “there’s nothing new about the clip or Obama’s role in the controversy at Harvard Law School.”
“In 2008, as a part of our quadrennial election special The Choice 2008,” Golis wrote, “Frontline ran the same footage of the speech as a part of an exploration of Obama’s time at Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1991. It’s been online at our site and on YouTube since then.” Golis added that Frontline obtained the footage from the archives of WGBH, PBS’ Boston affiliate. (More on the back story.)
“Is that it?” Soledad O’Brien asked Pollak in an interview on Thursday morning. “What part of that was the bombshell? Because I missed it.”
Pollack responded: “The bombshell is the revelation of the relationship between Obama and Derrick Bell … [Derrick Bell] passed away last year, but during his lifetime he developed a theory called critical race theory, which holds that the Civil Rights movement was a sham and that white supremacy is the order and it must be overthrown.”
The interview quickly devolved into an argument over the definition of critical race theory, with Jay Thomas, a Sirius radio host and a panelist on O’Brien’s show, jumping into the fray.
“Can I say something as a white person?” Thomas asked Pollak. “What are you frightened of? Are you frightened that some black people are going to do something to you? … What do you think Barack Obama’s going to do? Is there a secret black movement that’s going to start killing white people?”
Of course, Yahoo forgot to mention the part where Obama urged his peers to embrace the radical crackpot Harvard professor.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Never assume the first attack is the last.
Usually the first is to draw you out and gauge
The oppositions strength. I fully believe that there
More releases, with more damaging effects, it is
The Breitbart way. Watch.
Powder is dry
Mitch Rapp commented:
The media said the same about ACORN
The media said the same about Solyndra
The media said the same about unemployment now at 9+%
The media said the same about Fast and Furious
The media said the same about Bill Ayers –
ooops they said nothing, nada, nunca on any of that stuff -giving OBAMA a free ride
Mitch Rapp commented:
Any guess why the newspapers are failing and the “news propaganda shows” are losing watcher and FOX and alternative media is growing?
Doesn’t any of our media have any business skills?
Savant commented:
“Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree had the footage from 1990…”
Remember the Beer summit where Obama said the police acted stupidly for arresting Henry Louis Gates, jr?
One of Gates’s lawyers, Harvard Law Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr, a former professor of Obama, stated that “I think the president has taken the right approach by trying to make sure we move forward [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy
Oh how the worm has turned.
TXPatriot commented:
I’m just curious if their spell check knows the word: MELTDOWN…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/08/Soledad%20OBriens%20Embarrassing%20Biased%20Interview
Taqiyyotomist commented:
“…whipped conservatives into a frenzy….”
I don’t think the word “frenzy” means what they think it means.
They should look to the Muslim world for better examples.
KR commented:
Bell’s short story made into a movie. Who’s afraid of who?
http://quitenormal.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/breitbart-reveals-obama-hero-derrick-bells-hbo-sci-fi-film-and-its-slave-trading-alien-ronald-reagan/
Scroll down for the three parts.
Savant commented:
@TXPatriot-
Soledad melted down because she was at Harvard at the time-
O’Brien attended Harvard from 1984 to 1988, but did not obtain a degree until she returned in 2000.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledad_O%27Brien
valerie commented:
They will do the best they can to persuade people NOT to see that video.
TXPatriot commented:
Did anyone else not know there was a connection between Obama and Henry Gates (the professor whose arrest ended in the “beer summit”? It seems Gates’ lawyer happens to be a good friend of the Obamas from some time ago.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/7/20/renowned-af-am-professor-gates-arrested-for/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ogletree
That’s a link I didn’t know existed. Did you?
TXPatriot commented:
Yes on Soledad, and something she neglected to tell her viewers as she tried to race-bait Pollack.
MrGoodWench commented:
Andrew said that these videos will show why Obama has had the need to focus on racism and class warfare and why the media has helped him do the same .
Guess he was right, and the media again took his bait and proved his point for him.
RIP handsome
Aggie95 commented:
” Is there a secret black movement that’s going to start killing white people?” …secret …its no secret except to liberals but interracial violence between AA and Whites is 90 % black on white
Adi commented:
“Bombshell falling flat?” …
Dude, that’s just the reckon team.
Savant commented:
TXPatriot @10-
see #4 above
TeeDub commented:
I guess it’s not a bombshell because the media says it’s not. I wonder if the the 20% swing voters feel that way? Most I talk to already feel like they were hoodwinked and usually get pretty quiet when discussing how they voted in 2008.
Sorry to Live in Illinois commented:
@Militant Conservative
I hope you are right because the video was pretty anti-climatic. It just shows what we, and everyone else, already know.
JOSCEFI commented:
[quote]“Is that it?” Soledad O’Brien asked Pollak in an interview on Thursday morning. “What part of that was the bombshell? Because I missed it.”[/quote]
I’m going to guess that this isn’t ‘it’.
After the dismissive spin is on the record, there will be more…
…in the meantime, let’s just enjoy what the bait attracts!
Ghost commented:
Consider:
as recently as 2004 John Kerry knew that such a revelation would doom his candidacy.
Both Clintons and Gore knew that such a revelation would be instant political death.
That’s why, as Rush has always said, the looney liberals always hid their associations, always masked their true intentions, disguised themselves as Real Americans who are just patriotic in another sense- you already know the dog and pony show. They mastered the ruse of patriotic dissent, all the while sabotaging and undermining America’s institutions, heritage and greatness.
The “Long March Through the Institutions” has finally had its’ desired effect. We are here, folks.
This is it, the end of the road. We’re zooming off the cliff.
HOW FAR HAS AMERICA FALLEN?! when a Presidential candidate, now The Usurper, can SELF-IDENTIFY! with an insane, Super-Marxist and there is an outcry in the land, “Is that it? Is that ALL you got? Where’s the Bombshell?, I missed it. What’s the big deal? It’s old news, so what!?”
Folks, do you realize what a horrible predicament we’re in? Can you imagine this in the 1960 election?
Can you imagine this as late as 2004, less than ten years ago?
For the record, Ogletree knew to hide this in 2008. So, what’s changed?
What’s changed is that The Left is totally confident that they have indeed taken over, they’re NOT TRYING TO HIDE ANYMORE, and we’re just months away from losing it, as Reagan feared. (you all know the quote)
Have we gone from the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay to wimpering saps in the span of just one lifetime?
The Greatest Lesson I’ve learned from my Tea Party participation is this:
The “Star-Spangled Banner” epic poem written by Francis Scott Key is the Greatest National Anthem in the world because it begins with a question, and ends with a question- as if to say that one generation is handed the Torch of Freedom and is entrusted to pass that Torch of Freedom in the same condition, or better, than it was received.
to think that we are the ones who will drop the Torch makes me cry
donh commented:
That is a real man boy love hug going on between Obama and Bell, but so far the bombshell is a dud. It doesn’t seem like Breitbart’s work to plagerize an old PBS documentary that has been uploaded to youtube since 2008. Maybe it will get better, but so far it looks like the media matter storm trooper squad got to Andrew’s people , and they are following Obama’s script . …Go out and whine about affirmative action on TV, get everyone to bite at the worm bait of racism, and I win re-election. It is concerning that people who just attended Andrew’s funeral have sold out his legacy to Obama and cower away from the real story…. A very suspicious death within an hour of argueing with a former CBS CNN excutive who worked with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Then his ” bombshell ” turns out to be something favorable to Obama as a man who broke down tenure barriers for black civil rights professors at elite all white faculties.
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