Earlier this afternoon, Matt Drudge teased a “curious” tape that will drop tonight and cause “controversy” by igniting “accusations of racism — in both directions!”Posted on 10/02/2012 5:29:28 PM PDT by markomalley
Earlier this afternoon, Matt Drudge teased a “curious” tape that will drop tonight and cause “controversy” by igniting “accusations of racism — in both directions!”
Drudge also claimed that an unnamed news network was internally debating whether it should air such a bombshell video the night before the first presidential debate.
Eventually, the Drudge Report’s homepage sported the famous animated siren, with a headline revealing the TV network and dubbing the video “Obama’s Other Race Speech”:
During the final segment of Fox News’ The Five, co-host Eric Bolling announced that tonight at 9 p.m. Sean Hannity would air this “bombshell” tape… and the frenzy to figure out what this tape might be raged on.
That was until Drudge updated its teaser headline with the following image:
If we are to believe that this particular screenshot is from the actual video Hannity plans to air tonight, then it turns out that speech that has already existed online since 2007.
BuzzFeed Politics located a video of then-Senator Barack Obama speaking at Hampton University in June 2007 before pastors and ministers, wearing the same exact outfit seen in the Drudge image… and speaking in front of the same background.
However, Drudge eventually added quotes to their tease:
“We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods.”
Poor people “need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office.”
“My pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”…
And these specific quotes are not found within the 2007 video that BuzzFeed found. However, within several minutes, Drudge also added a tease for the “unscrubbed” video to be released.
So perhaps this is the video Drudge has been teasing, but there is a longer unedited version they believe could be damaging to the Obama presidency?
Look for our report on Hannity’s airing tonight. And we will update here as events develop.
Watch the “edited” 2007 speech below:
[NB: go to the article to see the video clips]
UPDATE: BuzzFeed found two clips that are not included in the original YouTube video, which is reportedly missing a chunk from the top of Obama’s speech. This extra clip also includes the praise for Rev. Jeremiah Wright that Drudge teased in the above quotations.
We’ve put to the two extra videos together. Watch below:
[NB: go to the article to see the video clips]
UPDATE #2:
To read the full transcript of the 2007 speech CLICK HERE
He was speaking to a gathering of ministers. Had it been a NARAL gathering he would have mentioned vagina 8 times..
Hannity and Tucker look like coming to class late.
Already knew that Rev. Wright was his pastor and he felt that the Katrina victims were short sided by their government (as they say), taking extra days to order help> tho many of us know it was due to Brownie, Nagin and the Governor in the way ...since Bush was waiting for the state to react. All the video is doing is making certain groups of whites hate Obama even deeper. This will backfire.
Agree. They need to get over their own tingles regarding this stupid video. The only "good" thing is an excuse to bring up good ole' super-racist-anti-American Rev. Wrong again, in case no one was paying attention the last time around. Maybe a handful will be educated. But what they SHOULD be talking about is his abysmal failure as a "president" instead.
If Hannity proclaims it to be a "bombshell" then you can count on it being a ho-hum yawn event. When has Hannity ever introduced a true "bombshell", other than in his own mind???
Call it what you want but this video proves to me that Mr Obama is a lying, racist, narcissistic SOB who will say/do anything to advance his agenda. He, in my humble opinion, has zero moral fiber. But the weak-minded people who he tickles will re-elect him. His third term will come a bit harder though.
This was a dud and not a bombshell....
I've known that for 5 years.
He never speaks in the black dialect unless he is addressing a black audience. Did you catch his black speech manerisms?
He never speaks in the black dialect unless he is addressing a black audience. Did you catch his black speech manerisms?
Why do democrat candidates continue to scare minorities and seniors? Because it works. Always has and always will. We would like to think minorities and seniors aren’t as dumb as democrat candidates think they are, but apparently we would be wrong.
His black dialect is as phony as Hillary’s. She was repulsive with it!
>> Much ado about NOTHING. No surprise to me.
And the voters of America are one with your infinite wisdom.
Obama has never done more than speak and get federal money for a job.
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