The much-hyped Andrew Breitbart video of President Obama’s college days we’ve been hearing about didn’t live up to all the talk. It shows Obama embracing and praising a radical Harvard professor when he was at law school, and while it’s an interesting peak into Obama’s younger years, it’s not exactly a bombshell.
But, as Ed Morrissey explains, that’s not the point. “The point of Andrew [Breitbart]’s final project isn’t so much to make Obama’s early radical ties clear; it’s to point out how the media tried to keep them quiet.”
When the mainstream media considers it a major story that Rick Santorum’s wife once dated an abortion provider more than two decades ago, you have to wonder why it didn’t even merit a news brief that Obama is on video hugging and endorsing a radical academic who had some troubling views on white people and Jews – especially when you remember that his association with Jeremiah Wright was a big controversy back in ’08.
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien (unintentionally) made this double standard even clearer today, when she tried to dismiss this as a non-story during a panel with Breitbart editor Joel Pollak. But she underestimated Pollak, and only ended up exposing her own bias and embarrassing her network in the process:
Making Obama’s “radical ties” an election issue is a losing strategy for Republicans, especially because there’s so much to attack him for in terms of his presidential record. But that doesn’t mean the media double standard for covering Republican and Democratic politicians isn’t infuriating. The Breitbart video campaign is aimed at exposing just that, and O’Brien’s comments today helped them along.
It is not losing strategy but it cant be the only strategy.
wow !!! CNN should be ashamed of its commentators. Soleidad kept on 'repeating "bombshell" as if only a tape showing Obama shooting a man is interesting. A small question to Soleidad: if you find a video of Romney (or Bush) embracing a KKK klansman, would you dismiss it as not consequential? Oh, wait, didn't this happen oh, some months ago, when the media found an old rock (a rock, for heaven's sake!) with a derogatory inscription on Rick Perry's ranch-not even knowing who wrote it and Rick Perry was branded a racist…I wonder if we could find some tape from Soleidad and her dismissal of that incident as not relevant….
This is the weakest bombshell I ever have seen. Really desperate for a story? What did Romney, Gingrich and Santorum do in college? The whole discussion was weak. n nFocus on the economy and international relations. Jeez, Obama in college? Get real.
Release the transcripts; especially from his student days at Columbia. Then talk to me about Obama in college. Strange no one at Columbia seems to remember Barry Sotero – even members of his class and students who took the same courses he's allegedly been in. Release the transcripts.
This really is nuts. The guy has been President for 3 1/2 years, and now you folks are obsessing about his college days? If you don't understand by now, what he'll do as President, looking at his college activities won't help you. n nGet a life, people.
Funny how any questions about Obama's background are met with ad hominem attacks. Obama was never vetted by the press in 2008; facts about him were hidden a la the Rashid Khalidi tapes locked up by the LA Times, never mind the Harvard tapes supporting a black radical, never mind the story and tapes about his associations with the New Black Panthers, Louis Farrakhan, Ayres and Dorne. Call me crazy – but where are his college records? Why not release them? If that's crazy buddy then so is seeking after the truth about his intellectual and philosophical background. He can't run on his record for the past 3 1/2 years, and his political advisors are desperately trying to change the subject. Yep, call me crazy; call me anything you'd like. Just release the records, tapes and audio. Let people judge this man for what his record actually is, whom he associated with, what he said and did.
It gets crazier and crazier. Don't you get it? n nThe man already has been President for 3 1/2 years. You've seen what he does AS PRESIDENT. I don't care if the guy is a commie, mass murderer, pedophile, rapist, drug merchant, wife beater. n nI judge him by 3 1/2 years of him being PRESIDENT. That's what counts. Not what he did in college.
Soledad O'brien (named after the prison where 1960's bomb-throwing radicals were "unjustly" imprisoned, I assume) exhibited her innate bias while delivering a pathetically inadequate commentary on the Obama college video. Breitbart editor Joel Pollak easily demolished O'brien's claim that this was a non-story. We desperately need more capable and intelligent people like Mr. Pollak, who are dedicated to exposing the contemptible main stream media bias that enabled this radical leftist's ascent to the highest office in the land.
Good catch Ms. Goodman. Good job! n nUMass made *me* study Critical Race Theory back in the '90s — the book is _Faces in the Bottom of the Well_ and I encourage all to read it — there is a reason why I openly referred to the four authors of that priceless piece of pulp as "the four horsemen…." n nI will be blunt: _Faces in the bottom of the well_ and _the Turner Diaries_ are books that you really need to read (preferably not completely sober) just because you need to realize that there are folks out there twisted enough to actually think & write this sort of stuff. And it really is best not to read either book while sober, but you really do need to do it… n nI had occasion, again back in the '90s at the height of 'critical race theory' to ask a leading civil rights attorney what his thoughts were of it. He was blunt: "people don't even cite it anymore." And thus you had this radical theory being proposed, taught and whatnot by these tenured radical schmucks at Harvard (including the one who later left to be closer to his boyfriend who was an editor for the New Yorker (although I am not sure we are supposed to know that – yes, Ed has sources, trust me….) at the same time that the ENTIRE LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT CONSIDERED IT SO IRRELEVANT THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO TOSS IT INTO THEIR BRIEFS. n nAs there may be children reading, I will let the readers defer to Ms. Goodman's description of that CNN schmuckette as I don't want children reading all the fun adjectives that I would use…. n nCan we somehow purchase CNN-free cable, as in service without them?