Andrew Brietbart was Killed for This?
That was Barack Obama in a 1990 video at Harvard protests in favor of the cause of Professor Derek Bell and the hiring of more minority faculty members. Isn’t it amazing that Obama sounds and looks exactly the same (sans afro today). Obviously Obama has a time machine.
Professor Bell was the first tenured African American professor of law at Harvard. He was a lifetime advocate of civil rights and greater diversity of college faculties. Breitbart tried to make the case that Professor Bell was a radical. He also said that the above video was edited to protect Obama. Brietbart had the unedited version, which was a full two seconds longer.
What were in those two seconds? Hold your onto your seats: Barack Obama hugging the Harvard Professor he had just lauded.
Impeach him.
It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hug Us Back.
Yeah, I stole that from someplace.
And I’m a fan of the conspiracy theory that NPR included a contract on Brietbart as one of their Exclusive Subscriber thank you gifts.
I’m not sure I can survive all the stupid heading our way this year.
I’m reserving comment until Arpiao has a chance to run this through his de-layering machine.
Cass, actually, I got that contract when I made a $250 pledge to WHYY during the Peter, Paul and Mary concert they showed the other night. 🙂
This incident just proves how racist Breitbart, Malkin and the Republicans are. From a reader at TPM:
And any right wing knuckle dragger who comes here to support the latest Breitbart Fever Dream are racists too.
Cass: Sometimes stealing is good. I laughed out loud.
I agree with you, DD. To try to take the career of a man who was been at the forefront of the Civil Rights fight here in the US and to try to make him (and by association, the entire Civil Rights project) into some out of control radical is pretty retrograde. But this is pitched quite precisely at the people who think that a bunch of black kids sitting at a cafeteria table together are an incipient problem.
Am hoping that the MSM rolls its collective eyes at this, but am not hopeful.
This video just makes me like President Obama even more.
Gotta be fake because FOX has always said that there is no proof that the kenyan/marxist/fascist/socialist/communist/mooslim/addyourownstupidslur ever attended Harvard. Don’t try to point out the Review thing;your facts are impotent against ignorance.
Has the Brietbart Group, or conservatives issued a statement with this video? The right seems silent on this issue.
Is it possible they are silent because it shows Obama making a reasoned plea? Or is it because the dog whistle hasn’t blown yet?
I second Joe that it’s a fake. He’s not using a teleprompter.
The only scandal here is “Obama Once Hung Out With Other Black People!”
I love the commenter at TPM who said that Obama killed Breitbart to spare him from dying of embarrassment.
I bet Breitbart photoshopped it to make them look blacker.
anyone think it’s a coincidence that Breitbart said he was holding this one back in 2008, and now, a year after Bell’s death so he can’t come on tv and eloquently expound on how dumb this is, this is “coming to light”?
Probably O’Keefe wanted to release it and Breitbart said “Over my dead body!”
Look how young we all were…
Jon Chait has an amusing take on the legendary video that Brietbart et al were plumping: Fabled Obama Video
What’s ironic is that Breitbart and his band of brain dead pranksters would trade a functioning nuclear arsenal to Iran for a real video of Obama doing this. Since, I suspect, that is is this message that his readers actually hear from the President every time he speaks.