Breitbart Exposé Part II

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

Uh oh. Breitbart might take Barack Obama down from beyond the grave with this video of him at Harvard. As you could imagine, the video shows...Obama protesting in favor of his professor, Derrick Bell, who, in turn, was speaking out in favor of more diversity at Harvard. The horror!

Now, BEHAVE YOURSELVES and watch:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz3qShugQ9I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz3qShugQ9I</a>

Not quite the crack-fueled gay orgy the right wing was hoping for but it's the best they're gonna get.

[Old Viking]

Won't somebody think of the children?

[nickiknack]

I already posted it...http://forums.fstdt.net/politics-and-government/breitbart's-obama-video-has-been-releashed/

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

I already posted it...http://forums.fstdt.net/politics-and-government/breitbart's-obama-video-has-been-releashed/

Motherfuck, sniped by five minutes.

[DiscoBerry]

Firstly, the video that Breitbart.com published wasn't video of Obama's 1990 speech. It was a partial video of a recent presentation by Harvard professor Charles Ogletree at which the video was shown, on a screen. In other words, it was video of a video of the speech. Yesterday afternoon, while Breitbart's minions were busy hyping the impending "revelation" of the tape, Buzzfeed mischievously tracked down the actual first-generation video of the speech from WGBH, the Boston public station that originally covered the rally at which Obama delivered the speech back in 1990. Buzzfeed reveled in double-scooping Breitbart by delivering a better copy of the offending video first for about ten minutes before it emerged that the same footage had been featured in a 2008 Frontline episode profiling Obama and McCain. And had been available, for free, on its web site ever since.

So: The thing that was being revealed had been, in fact, revealed for years, which is slightly embarrassing. But not fatal to the Breitbartian project, which has always been more about baiting and attacking media institutions than about discerning actual facts. So the scoop—or lack thereof—itself isn't as important as demonstrating that the media ignored the Derrick Bell connection back in 2008. It was there in plain sight, but nobody did anything. "This election, we're going to vet him," Breitbart told the CPAC audience not long before his death, "to show that racial division and class warfare were central to what hope and change were sold as in 2008." The implication was that the "mainstream media" failed to appreciate the gravity of the Bell tape when they had the chance.

"Why are we looking at this video in 2012?" asked Amy Holmes on CNN. "Why didn't we see in 2008?" The fact that Holmes actually did see it in 2008, if she was watching Frontline, is immaterial. It didn't cause a shitstorm in 2008. Why not? Where's my shitstorm?

Who knows. Because Jeremiah Wright was occupying that space? Because people were more reasonable? Because the Tea Party had not yet emerged to rabidly consume every scrap of Obama conspiracy marginalia that was thrown to it? Because Breitbart had not yet finished constructing the poisonous media economy that was his legacy?

Video on link has CNN point out the errors in Breitbarts BS
http://gawker.com/5891738/why-were-talking-about-barack-obama-and-derrick-bell-now

[Eniliad]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-march-8-2012-trita-parsi

Jon Stewart destroys the tapes.

[Sylvana]

Am I the only one who is wondering who the hell is Derick Bell besides some law professor and why the hell should we care that Obama, who was obviously a student at the time, was associated with him?

I am really trying to figure out what is newsworthy about this at all. It would be similar to Obama stopping at a Mc Donalds drive through and ordering a big mac and suddenly the right is jumping up and down about Obama and Mc Donalds being part of some socialist class warfare anti-capitalist plot to destroy families.

[armandtanzarian]

Am I the only one who is wondering who the hell is Derick Bell besides some law professor and why the hell should we care that Obama, who was obviously a student at the time, was associated with him?

Who the hell is Saul Alinsky? They'll just make up a fanfic version of the people they want to shoot down, including Obama. Because usually, they can't rail against the real guy in a fact-based argument, so they create a fake version of him. This includes Obama himself.

[Qlockworkcanary]

I hear there's a third, more damning tape out there -apparently it's just Obama standing in a parking lot! CLASS FUCKING WARFARE - I knew it!!