Posted on 03/09/2012 6:18:29 AM PST by Kaslin
In partial fulfillment of Andrew Breitbart's promise to "vet" the President this time, the Breitbart.com team posted a video of President Barack Obama as a law student at Harvard. It also ran on Hannity tonight. The video shows the young Obama asking his fellow law students to "Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell."
Professor Derrick Bell, the object of young Obama's adoration, was an associate of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and a committed radical. Bell was a proponent of Critical Race Theory, which views virtually all relationships through a lens of perceived race-based oppression.
As Ben Shapiro wrote on Breitbart.com about Bell:
"This is a close associate of Jeremiah Wright, a man who was quoted by Jeremiah Wright regularly. This is a man who posited that the civil rights movement was too moderate because it accepted the status quo, and believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed in radical fashion. This is a man so extreme that, as we’ve reported, he wrote a story in 1993 in which he posited that white Americans would sell black Americans into slavery to aliens to relieve the national debt, and that Jews would go along with it."
(That story became a video, complete with former President Ronald Reagan as the slave trading alien.)
An edited version of the video - minus the section in which Obama heaps praise on Professor Bell - was posted earlier on the BuzzFeed.com. Leftists and Obama apologists dismissed the video as inconsequential and racist. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America tweeted:
"look @mmfa has been saying this for 2+ yrs: the Breitbart crew = complete clowns. tonight more 'n more pple are figuring that out; #good"
Boehlert can't argue with the video's content; after all, it documents actual events. Instead, he resorts to the standard Alinsky tactic of ridiculing the messenger. He doesn't begin to address whether Obama's association with Bell should have been revealed before the 2008 election.
Shapiro reports what Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, a close associate to the Obama campaign, had to say about hiding the tape during the 2008 campaign: "We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now."
Isn't watchdog Boehlert curious about why a tape would be hidden by the campaign? Exactly what does interest a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America?
The liberal website HyperVocal.com couldn't wait to recycle the Racer script. Slade Shomer, whose column is predictably entitled 'What's the Right-Wing End Game of This 'Racist Obama' College Days Video?' lacks even the slightest curiosity about Obama's association with Bell and why the '08 Obama campaign wanted it hidden. Instead, keeping with true intellectually dishonest tradition, Shomer plays the race card: (emphasis mine)
While everyone fights this out in partisan terms via Twitter and their websites, we’ll instead ask a more pragmatic question: What is the end game here? Let’s even say there’s more footage that shows Obama standing there in a shirt that reads “Kill Whitey.” Let’s say he professes his deep hatred of Caucasians and says Jeremiah Wright didn’t go far enough. What then? Hasn’t this man been President of the United States for more than three years and white people as we know them are still hangin’ around?
What was Breitbart, and now (editor-in-chief Joel) Pollak and Shapiro, trying to prove exactly? How does digging up 20-year-old video change anything? There’s only one goal here, and that’s to stoke white fear. It’s almost as if the people promoting a “damning” video and the people who want to believe it most are legitimately scared that a racist, classist Barack H. Obama will wipe white people off the map … in his second term.
Certainly we all acknowledge that class warfare is a major component of Obama's re-election campaign strategy. It's not scary, just dishonest and destructive. But how does the release of this video stoke white fear? The assertion is as ludicrous as it is ignorant (assuming Mr. Shomer actually believes his bizarre allegations).
Try as they might, the video is out and the conversation is being had. Just exactly what do we know about President Obama? Does this video change our minds about him leading up to Election Day? If there is one video, are there others? Who is Derrick Bell, and what do we know about him?
These are just some of the legitimate questions that Eric Boehlert and Shomer, and their fellow Leftists and Apologists, will never ask, and would prefer you didn't either.
More than once, Breitbart has released a video to get the media’s reactions and later, when he released the next video, the initial comments have been an embarrassment to those who blasted Breitbart in the beginning.
Are the Breitbart team members continuing the tradition?
It seems like that they are.
Sorry, cable modem/router’s been down since 1-2pm.
I can’t get it to play, but that lowlife dirtbag Bell is racist mf lowlife. In conjection, or as background to, the Obummer-Haaarvaaard video, it’s powerful. Most people won’t make the connection, like you. I didn’t because I simply didn’t do the research on Bell, until the video you provided, and then found some other racist-garbage he spewed.
Can’t say I’m sorry that POS is now in Hell for that vile hatred of what this Nation has done for him and others of that race.
As loveliberty2 said, I didn’t have any “context” for the AB video, and without that needed background on Bell, I was lame to make that statement. I should have done the *requisite research* on that vile POS first, to provide myself with some much-needed context on his background.
I now see your point, p_36, and agree with it.
Thanks to you both, for the “lesson”. And I am no “issue troll’, either.
Excellent observation and right on the mark. You’re right about Hannity. When he’s on, I usualy switch to Mark Levin’s “Rewinds” until 6pm, when he comes on live.
Many thanks for your understanding, and a much-needed “lesson” in providing myself some “context” for such things, when it’s noticeably absent. Mea culpa.
Sorry for the delayed post. My cable modem/ router’s been down much of the day, and I just got a spare unit working.
I finally got the video to play. Ugly, hateful stuff.
Breitbart knew that!
Soledad’s voice is just grating. She’s a good little commie lib herself. Totally sucked in by Bell and Obama. Ignores the fact that they were only interested in radical blacks. Blacks without their point of view need not apply. Hannity forgets to bring that up when he’s discussing all of this.
Obama is GOVERNING OUR BELOVED COUNTRY with these radical
beliefs all of this class warfare crap comes from these beliefs!!!! DO NOT
dare believe for ONE SINGLE minute this man has changed or accept
from anyone that this was 20 years ago he is a radical and a racist!!!
I don’t K c; he’s 10x worse today with all that power and those mindless lib-dem drones behind him!
It’s only just begun...
She’s a good little commie lib herself.
That's probably true of many in that line of work.
How does Pollack seem? He ran against Schakowsky, but as a moderate. I’d heard that his views on many conservative issues were soft and developing. Any news on him taking the fight all the way? Does he have Breitbart’s killer instinct?
Bannon said (on Hannity’s show a day or so after AB’s death) that AB had hired ‘fighters’ and he mentioned Pollak by name. I was really impressed by Pollak when he went up against Soledad O’Brien. He kept his cool .... really kept it, articulated his points well, knew his stuff backwards and forwards, did not let her off the hook and challenged her on points .... and did it in a very calm, gentlemanly way that made her look like a rabid @ss (which is what she was acting like).
There is only one Andrew Breitbart and Pollak is not AB, but I thought he did a creditable job. Obviously, he and others in the organization AB created are willing to carry AB’s fight on. Even if they never accomplish what AB would have accomplished, they will shine the light of truth in a lot of dark corners. Soledad got hit with a bright beam right between the eyes - she totally disgraced herself and Pollak left her without a single shred of credibility, not that she ever had much to begin with.
To MissMagnolia: You actually mentioned the greater issue behind the Obama-Bell-Ogletree Axis, but it was missed by literally everyone, including Hannity, etc.
It is: Who else in the government, now, esp. at the Dept. of Justice, was a student of either Bell or Ogletree, or both?
Soledad Obrien; Barack Obama; possibly Michele Obama; Eric Holder, etc. Any major members of the press, Hollywood, the judicial system (from the Supreme Court on down, esp. the Nutty Ninth Circuit, Cal,) etc?
Did any of them also study with or admire/read James Cone’s racist “black liberation theology” books? How about Ogletree’s works on “white reparations”?
How does Rev. Jeremiah Wright fit in with Ogletree and/or Bell? How deep was any relationship? How much did any of them influence the other? Wright definitely was influenced by Cone and reportedly Derek Bell.
The same question needs to be asked of their relationships to Rev. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, just another guy in Obama’s “hood”.
Put Obama in this picture through both Harvard and Wright’s Chicago church of hate, and you begin to get better view of one ideological/theological influence on Obama, that of the Black extremists (Black liberation theology; black separatism; white reparations to blacks; black supremacy; etc).
The other influence on Obama was that of the communist/marxist/socialist society/political milieu he was raised and educated in, esp. in Chicago where the Commmunist Party USA and Saul Alinsky (a marxist), held very significant influence if not, at times, a controlling hand (i.e. the election of May Harold Washington, an old marxist from the Canter-Rose-Axelrod school).
There is so much to this issue that Breitbart’s people should be fully employed for years. A lot of this can be found in the writings of Jerome Corsi at WorldNetDaily (WND) and Trevor Loudon at www.keywiki.org and his related blogspots. (NewZeal.blogspot.com). Check out Trevor’s new book at Amazon.com which contains a lot of his columns on Obama and his radical friends.
The same for Cliff Kincaid’s informative sites “www.accuracyinmedia.com” and “USAsurvival.org”.
There are also several good books by Fedderoso, Stanley, Kurtz, Aaron Klein, etc. to read.
Once you understand the twin ideological-economic and racial influences that formed Barack Obama, ie. the black extremists and the communist/marxists political world, you can see how he was the one chosen to be at the intersection of this convergence.
When you learn who was at Bill Ayers’ house the night that Obama ousted Alice Palmer from her state senate seat (she had decided, at first, not to run again, but changed her mind), you will understand all.
Stewart is VERY popular. I was just in a conversation with a few other moms and they all started talking excitedly at once about something on his show. He makes me sick. But liberals and apoliticals just LOVE him. He is so perfectly sarcastic and mocking. Just like kids in the classroom, you want to make sure to be on his side of everything so you’re not mocked as stupid. Alinsky was right about the effect of mockery.
I has a feeling that would happen. The second this came out, the morning the vids went public, I saved the Wikipedia on bell and on critical race theory. I have them on my other computer than isn’t synced to this one. Anyone want me to post them let me know.
Yeah, I think that sums it up. Oh! Look at that pink elephant!
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
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