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The Spectacle Blog
Matt Naugle provides us with a link to a video of a young Barack Obama when he was the President of the Harvard Law Review back in 1990.
It’s actually not a newly surfaced video though. If memory serves, I saw this video of Obama introducing the late Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell perhaps on The History Channel for some biographical program about Obama. I remember the video because of the blue shirt and the humorous quip about Bell’s good looks and charm. Bell passed away last October.
But the Obama video I would really like to see is one of more recent vintage. Specifically, I’d like to see what Barack Obama had to say in 2003 during a tribute to Rashid Khalidi, an anti-Israeli academic who has justified Palestinian suicide bombings. The Los Angeles Times refused to release the video during the 2008 campaign and to this day it keeps the video under lock and key. What could have Obama said that is unfit for public consumption? What do they have to hide?
The Obama-Khalidi video was recorded a year before Obama rose to national prominence at the Democratic National Convention and five years before he was elected President of the United States. If Obama made unfavorable statements about Israel in this video they cannot be dismissed in a way one might dismiss something said two decades after the fact.
If the folks at Breitbart can somehow unearth the Obama-Khalidi video before November it would be a miracle.
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Bob Grant| 3.7.12 @ 3:42PM
Aaron,
I wouldn't discount the video simply because it's been shown before. It serves to play into the narrative that obama associates himself with individuals who believe the Civil Rights Movement didn't go far enough, wasn't radical enough, to further the cause of the african American.
It's simply another example of obama choosing to side with the most radical element of leftist ideology.
I'm sure you are aware of Derrick Bell and his views on Critical Race Theory? People need to know what the hell that's about. That's why this video is important.
I would also like to see the video of him paying tribute to a muslim radical because, yet again, it demonstrates his pattern of gravitating toward extreme elements.
Clint| 3.7.12 @ 5:49PM
This particular video," which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright--about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours."
WL| 3.7.12 @ 11:48PM
Are you cutting and pasting from the articles now? I could have sworn that I read this somewhere recently...as did everyone else here.
You don't have to post just to post...and say absolutely nothing about ANYTHING!
You hair-brained Nincompoop.
Clint| 3.8.12 @ 12:48AM
I Got The Little Israel Firster Poochie, WL Trained To Follow Me Around.
Now, Go Fetch Bibi's Bone, WL.
WL| 3.8.12 @ 1:11AM
Apparently, you are getting your kicks at thinking I follow you around...so if that makes the ol' ticker jump for joy, I won't steal it from you...
However, I actually love to surf all of these AS blog entries...and your pap just happens be a whole bunch of real big fun to comment on....
You have to admit that watching Bibi sit down with Obama is a PERFECT replication of watching a real leader take control of the situation from a twit....If you don't admit that...you don't have an honest bone in your Swastika tattooed body!!!!!
I am just curious Clint (This is an honest question)...
Do you wear the little mustache so you can look like Hitler?
OR
Do you wear a thin beard so you can imitate Mahmoud?
My money is on the Hitler Stache!!!!!!!
Clint| 3.8.12 @ 2:24AM
Like I Said,
I Got Ya Trained To Follow Me Around, Little Israel Firster Smear Bund Doggie,WL.
Now, Go Fetch Bibi's Bone.
spike59| 3.8.12 @ 6:37AM
cut&paste; is his life and his substitute for actual thought
Clint| 3.8.12 @ 7:24AM
It Upsets The Livin' Hell Out Of You Israel Firster Smear Bund Bibi Woo Girls, Spicey 69.
Why Hasn't Your Roughy Puff Bibi Attacked Iran, Spicey ?
Little Bibi Must Be Waitin' For A Note From His Mommy ?
Lloyd| 3.7.12 @ 8:35PM
The lesson to learn on the Obama-Khalidi video is a lesson for the post-Breitbart era. Never lose the opportunity to videotape a politician in action. The reason no one has seen this tape is because not enough people recorded it. There is a limit to how many people can be made to remain silent. There is no limit to the ambitions of politicians. Any of them may aspire to higher office, and all should have an eye kept on them.