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The Harvard Hug: What Else Are Media Hiding?
Investors.com ^ | 3-9-12 | IBD Editorial Staff

Posted on 03/10/2012 5:20:50 AM PST by radioone

Bias: We were wrong. The media elite did in fact vet this president, but they covered up what they found. And now that citizen journalists are digging it up, they're trying to rebury it.

Exhibit A is the controversial video of Barack Obama praising and hugging radical Harvard law professor Derrick Bell. The media knew it existed four years ago and conspired with academia to hide it to get Obama elected.

"We hid this during the 2008 campaign," confessed Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree. PBS had it then, but cut both the audio and the hug in a report on Obama's Harvard days. The footage served as wallpaper. Now that Breitbart.com has put the entire video online, the major media have gone into damage-control mode for Obama.

PBS claims, disingenuously, "there's nothing new about the clip." NBC's Andrea Mitchell misled viewers by claiming Bell was "not a radical firebrand" but a "distinguished professor."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bell; breibart; derrickbell; harvard; obama
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To: radioone

Why don’t we understand this; The media elites that vetted Obama are Communists so Briebart’s video is just a big “so what” to them.

What is illustrative is that they full well knew this, framed it a way that was palatable to the voters and they sucked it up.


21 posted on 03/10/2012 6:01:29 AM PST by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: G Larry

“Obama has a horrible agenda!”

Yes, he does. If you read through this thread it starts to reveal that agenda.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2856742/posts?page=33#33


22 posted on 03/10/2012 6:03:44 AM PST by maggief
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To: radioone

What Else Are Media Hiding?

1) Obama’s Chicago Bath House escapades
2) Obama and Kal Penn
3) Obama’s Real Father—Frank Marshall Davis
4) Obama the Sunni Muslim
5) Obama’s coke-head days
6) Obama’s missing years at Columbia University
7) Any Obama off the cuff remark
8) Obama’s duel citizenship(Indonesia)


23 posted on 03/10/2012 6:03:44 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: radioone

I am a little cynical of all these videos. I will never ever vote for Obama. I will never believe a word he says. I don’t think he does things without politcal motive, instead of service to our beautiful country. I just think these videos will never convince Obama followers. The Rev Wright video was enough for me, I would have thought it was enough for anyone, but unfortunately I think this country might already be in serious trouble.


24 posted on 03/10/2012 6:05:29 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: ladyjane

Harvard has a long record of tokenism. Nothing more than that. BTW, with respect to Harvard, they recruited me ~ gave me an acceptance.


25 posted on 03/10/2012 6:08:06 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: G Larry
Really? I don't recall appointing you as our official spokesperson!
26 posted on 03/10/2012 6:08:56 AM PST by liberalh8ter (Barack has a memory like a steel trap; it's a gift ~ Michelle Obama)
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To: radioone

The Breitbart video also elicited a “so what” from our friends at NRO. No big deal, they said. Obama has grown since then. Really?


27 posted on 03/10/2012 6:13:21 AM PST by driftless2
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To: muawiyah

Since you are not an alumnus of Harvard what they do should be of little importance to you.

Try to be more positive. Every time you get the urge to malign a school you never attended, instead post something positive about a school where you actually studied.


28 posted on 03/10/2012 6:16:23 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: preamble

Makes one kind of understand why Obama’s grades are a state secret...he likely was just more black window dressing...this time as president of the law reveiw.

No birth certificate...no passport records...no college grades or thesis...no investigation of his perhaps several social security numbers.

Rumors are out there that Barack/Barry lived in the foreign student dorm at Occidental. Nobody in the press is interested in any of this.

Andrew Breitbart is dead and Rush is fighting for his commercial life...a coincidence?


29 posted on 03/10/2012 6:26:12 AM PST by kjo (+)
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To: G Larry
Obama has a horrible record! Obama has a horrible agenda!

This provides context for why he is horrible and gives his prior supporters a reason to leave him without feeling like they didn't do their homework.

30 posted on 03/10/2012 6:29:30 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: preamble

Wait until they show zero standing with the foreign aide group of Harvard students with a sign wanting more funding, in 1981.
The media knew he was registered as a foreign student. They have covered it up.


31 posted on 03/10/2012 6:53:12 AM PST by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it.)
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To: G Larry

You’re not wrong...most voters don’t care about Obama’s past...but this helps take the media out of this campaign.

If we can show most people that the msm can’t be trusted to report the truth about Obama...it’s a start to forcing others to look beyond the media lies.

This stuff will never in itself defeat Obama...but enough of it will defeat the media...and once Obama’s media screen is gone, we can get to the truth about this guy.


32 posted on 03/10/2012 6:55:27 AM PST by kjo (+)
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To: liberalh8ter

Media refuses to report the truth about Obama because they are controlled by the Democrat Party. The media will not give up the special gifts they receive for doing what they are told.


33 posted on 03/10/2012 7:07:24 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: kjo

The country will be trained to hate Conservatives and trained to love Liberals. Hollywood and T.V. programs have been doing the dirty work for years and years.


34 posted on 03/10/2012 7:12:02 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: ladyjane
My ancestors founded Harvard. Later ancestors in that line founded Indiana University. Later ancestors, same line, founded Stanford and several other universities.

So, little miss snooty, do you imagine people have to attend Harvard to give a darned about it?

It used to be a useful national resource.

35 posted on 03/10/2012 7:13:32 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: G Larry

Get OFF of this JUNK NOW!!!

We look like CLOWNS going after this stuff...

Obama has a horrible record!
Obama has a horrible agenda!


Did it ever occur to you that his horrible record/agenda may have something to do with his ideology, and that his ideology may have something to do with the aforementioned “Junk”?


36 posted on 03/10/2012 8:00:31 AM PST by Lucas McCain (Heaven protect us from what evil men do in the name of good.)
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To: G Larry
Get OFF of this JUNK NOW!!! We look like CLOWNS going after this stuff.

No, you're wrong. It exposes the "trusted media" as liars. The people who can open their eyes to the truth, the ones we need to "convert", don't like being lied to.

37 posted on 03/10/2012 8:13:06 AM PST by Tellurian (0bama's allegience is to his father's dreams)
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To: Tellurian

Hell, they ran Trent Lott out of the Senate for saying nice things about an old man at his birthday party.


38 posted on 03/10/2012 8:19:32 AM PST by saleman (!!!!)
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To: opentalk; radioone; LucyT; Red Steel; null and void; All
@Your post about picking judges applies and fits here as well.

You've put it together plainly, opentalk, and it's still being missed, even by the new media.

39 posted on 03/10/2012 8:24:07 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: radioone

The old media are just gangsters helping out their criminal friends.

“I didn’t kill those people or steal that money. I just drove the getaway car.”


40 posted on 03/10/2012 8:27:43 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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