For those of you who have followed the story of the unexplained dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case, Andrew Breitbart has a blockbuster story over at BigGovernment.
Breitbart has turned up photographs taken in Selma, Alabama, in March 2007 of candidate Obama sharing a platform with members of the New Black Panther Party as well as departing with them for the main anniversary march. A photograph shows NBPP chairman Malik Shabazz standing just to the left of Obama, with another New Black Panther in between wearing the same type of black, paramilitary uniform the Panthers wore in Philadelphia on Election Day in 2008 when they were blocking the entrance to a polling place and hurling racial epithets at voters and poll watchers.
Shabazz was one of the defendants whose case was inexplicably dismissed at the orders of higher-ups in the Justice Department after Voting Section lawyer Christian Adams and section chief Christopher Coates had already won the case against him and the other defendants. BigJournalism also has two articles about this well worth perusing, including one on the background of the NBPP and another on the possible collusion between Media Matters and the DOJ on hushing up the NBPP story.
Breitbart points out that the White House has refused to identify the “Malik Shabazz” listed on White House visitor records as having been at the personal residence of the president on July 25, 2009, only two months after the voter intimidation case was dismissed. According to Adams’s new book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, “the fact that the future President of the United States shared a podium with leaders of the New Black Panthers, marched with them, and received a public, formal greeting from their party has vanished from the history of Obama’s campaign.”
If another presidential candidate had shared a podium, marched with, and received an endorsement from the KKK, it would justifiably be front page news and we would be seriously questioning the judgment of that candidate. If that candidate got elected and his administration then dismissed a lawsuit it had already won against the KKK, it would have led to serious consequences and serious questions being asked from the mainstream media. So why, when the color of the racists is reversed, is such behavior ignored?
Wow. NRO doubling down.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusedoubling down on what ? a smear ? a false charge ? or the truth still not covered by the MSM
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMikeyB likes to pretend that if you ignore the facts long enough, they'll go away.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI guess Drudge and Fox News are ignoring the facts and the story's going away.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBlockbuster? Juan Williams' March 4, 2007 report:
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYikes, you guys are really incredible. An anniversary march in which Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama participated in (along with thousands of others including apparently some Black Panters) indicates to you some connection between the President of the United States of America and the Black Panters? Guys, you really don't gain any credibility whatsoever with nonsense like this.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMore shenanigans from Obama, of course you want it to go away.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA presidential candidate at a rally with racist criminal thugs participating? I think that should be a story to any serious news media outlet that's not in bag for Obama (which is just about all of them). Plus, the added gem that our incompetent Attorney General takes a pass on pressing a dead-to-rights voter intimidation case against them? Seems like a theme with traction.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWOuld you feel the same way if it was a Republican candidate at the same event as a group from the KKK?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy use a hypothetical when we've already been treated to how the left wingnuts harp on Gov. Perry RE: the American Family Association.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRight, voter intimidation is nonsense. How ironic it will be on the day that the intimidation is aimed at *you*.
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Why is the story nonsense?
Do you really not know about the antisemitism and racism of the New Black Panther party?
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd? What does that have to do with Obama? Zip. Nada. Zero. I know you want tp try and paint Obama as some wild radical extremist but that dog don't hunt.
This is very similar to that other Breitbart " blockbuster" trying to falsely depict Sherrod as a racist. Funny this should all come out (even though it was reported at the time) the same day we learn that a Republican presidential candidate had a nice little place called N*****head. Funny ain't it?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere was no "endorsement" on the website. Someone not authorized by the campaign posted a supposed endorsement, which was immediately removed.
This event was held to commemorate the March on Selma, and was attended by, oh, about 10,000 people or so, including a few nutballs from the NBPP who apparently followed then-candidate Obama around.
Sorry to see that Breitbart's racial obsession has infected more than a few NRO Corner contributors.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou're right. There's no pattern of behavior here at all. They stalked Obama at the rally. It was a different Malik Shabazz who visited the White House. He never heard Jeremiah Wright's lunatic sermons. The Justice Department abandoned the case against the NBPP because a unicorn attested to their innocence.
Seriously, it's sad enough that you choose to subject us to your moronic blather, but don't embarrass yourself further by attributing all of this to a racial obsession on our part.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThank you, Hans!
I have a tip for you. I once attended a Washington Wizards-Chicago Bulls basketball game that Obama also attended. I can tell you for certain that there were some really bad characters in the crowd that night. There undoubtedly are pictures and videotapes of the event somewhere.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseEven by your standards, that was a pathetic attempt at diversion.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusethat would be guilt by association ... but what Obama has done in the cases of Ayers, Wright and the New Black Panthers is knowingly associate with the guilty ...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSycophant.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo one screams "reverse racism" as loud as a closet racist. This is just embarrassing. But kind of funny, too.
Hopefully one of your GOP joke-contendors can pick this "scandal" up and take it out into the mainstream. During a week when "N* Head" Perry is probably going to be the biggest story for the GOP, accusing the people who participated in a re-enactment of the Selma bridge crossing (Bill Clinton, Hillary, John Lewis, Obama, etc) is genius.*
*Genius = "conservative genius" - like invading Iraq, denying the kind of stuff 6th graders learn in science class, and Laffer Curve genius.
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