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The Spectacle Blog
Hold on to your hat.
Tonight Sean Hannity aired a 2007 speech by then-Senator Barack Obama that was surfaced exclusively by Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller crew. On the tape Obama bluntly accuses the U.S. government of racism in dealing with Hurricane Katrina – a decided play of the race card considering the literally billions that were sent to New Orleans by the Bush Administration.
Did I mention the laudatory wreaths hurled by Obama in the direction of “my pastor” – that being the Reverend Jeremiah Wright?
Suffice to say this is decidedly NOT the Barack Obama who presented himself to Americans as the great healer of America, the man Oprah Winfrey referred to as “The One.”
The tape is sensational – a potential game changer in the presidential election. The Daily Caller’s headliner can be found here.
Barack Obama as Kanye “Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” West.
We will have more Wednesday.
Buckle in. Hannity gets kudos for airing — and Tucker Carlson for digging up and having the guts to publish.
Needless to say – all of this unbelievable Obama dishonesty was NOT reported by the media of the day.
And they were present.
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geronl| 10.2.12 @ 10:45PM
The MSM won't touch it.
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 6:02AM
haven't heard a PEEP from the MSM so far this morning...
hmm_contrib| 10.2.12 @ 10:52PM
I'm not sure what there is to touch. Much of black America already thought, rightly or wrongly, that the government's delayed and incompetent response to Katrina was racist in origin, and if the GOP thinks reminding America of that episode of falling-down government in a GOP administration will help Romney, well, more power to them, I guess.
Mr. Lord also doesn't explain *what*, precisely, the President was dishonest about.
JmsA| 10.3.12 @ 12:05AM
To answer your question: "...considering the literally billions that were sent to New Orleans by the Bush Administration." Don't forget Governor Blanco (D), who kept on refusing Bush's help, including putting off the evacuation of the city, and Mayor of NO, Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin, who ran off to Houston with his family while school buses sat idle in the parking lost, as the situation became increasingly dire with the approaching storm. Why do think they subsequently elected a Republican governor?
hmm_contrib| 10.3.12 @ 12:16AM
And school buses and the governor are supposed to do FEMA'S job for them, I assume. I guess Arabian horse judges have busy schedules.
Look: sending money to the area after the fact doesn't make the initial response (you know, when lives and property were vulnerable) any better, and neither you nor Mr. Lord (still) have explained any dishonesty.
JmsA| 10.3.12 @ 1:18AM
Per an October 9, 2005 interview by Lisa Myers NBC News, Gov. Blanco admitted she had been too slow to ask for federal troops. When Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation 20 hours before Katrina hit, she was she ignoring the advice of experts who had warned it would take 48 hours to carry it out. She was also slow to call National Guard troops to restore order. Such prompted State Senator Donald Cravins (D-LA), to comment: "It certainly appeared that there was a lot of indecisiveness exhibited by the governor in the early stages of the disaster." Even Jane Bullock, a former Clinton FEMA official commented: “It would have been better if it had happened sooner”, meaning, getting the Louisiana National Guard, which she commanded, on the streets to try to establish security.
Are you getting it now? Bush wasn’t the only actor in this drama. Much of the suffering and many of the deaths from Katrina could have been prevented had the local authorities been more efficient and less self-serving. Now answer my question: Why didn’t Blanco run for re-election though she was eligible to do so? Because she proved to everyone she was inept and incompetent, which the media hid from the rest of the country, while solely blaming the Bush administration for a tragedy ensuing from an act of God. Now go on and take your BS somewhere else; you’re not fooling anyone.
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 6:08AM
"And school buses and the governor are supposed to do FEMA'S job for them, I assume."
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so, you assume that FEMA is supposed to do the Governor's job, the Mayor's job...i guess curling up in a fetal ball while having an emotional meltdown is the proper response for the mayor ELECTED to serve NOLA citizens, and that refusing any advice or help until it's too late is the proper response for the Governor ELECTED to serve LA citizens?????
face it-the state and municipal governments involved BLEW it, abdicated their responsibilities, and passed the blame for their incompetence on to Bush, tarring him with disgusting and reprehensible racist accusations
mike 3/505| 10.3.12 @ 8:20AM
hhmmmmm,
go look at FEMA's charter. It is NOT a First Responder agency. In fact, most of what it does, is indeed, send money after the fact
Mike G| 10.3.12 @ 8:25AM
"And school buses and the governor are supposed to do FEMA'S job for them, I assume. "
I evacuated myself from New Orleans on Aug. 28, 2005. Why do you assume it's the government's responsibility to evacuate people? Oh, that's right, that would involve some kind of personal responsibility.
Crassus| 10.2.12 @ 10:59PM
Just an attempt by Hannity to get ratings. Nothing more, nothing less. Doubt it will have any effect on the campaign. People will have forgotten by Friday.
DRed| 10.2.12 @ 11:09PM
It takes a real act of courage to publish a video that's been available on youtube for 5 years. Thank God for brave men like Sean Hannity. Hey look, here's a full transcript of the speech that's been available to anyone with a computer since 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/2khzh8
If this is your idea of a bombshell story and a sensational act of journalistic courage, you people are in big trouble.
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 6:10AM
it would have taken some semblance of journalistic integrity on the part of the MSM to have mentioned this speech AT ALL during the 2008 campaign, at a time when they were sifting thru the personal records of a private citizen who dared to question the Obamessiah...
DRed| 10.3.12 @ 10:24AM
So running the complete transcript of the speech isn't mentioning it? Tucker talked about the speech on MSNBC. Its not a very remarkable speech-I'm not sure how much coverage you think it should have received, but the idea that it was ignored is yet another right wing fantasy.
The Bruce| 10.3.12 @ 2:02PM
The problem with this "transcript" is that it's nothing of the kind. It's a copy of the prepared notes handed to journalists by the Obama team back then. It contains none of Obama's off-script, off-hand remarks.
Pelleas| 10.3.12 @ 12:35AM
Did Hannity use his offensive minstrel drawl, which he drags out when ever a stray (and misguided) Black person calls his radio show, when he announced this non-"news" story?
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 10:21AM
no, it looks like it was ObaMao using HIS 'offensive minstrel drawl'...
RCV| 10.3.12 @ 1:13AM
If this is your idea of a " game changer " then the game is over already. Done.
DRed| 10.3.12 @ 1:51AM
"Needless to say – all of this unbelievable Obama dishonesty was NOT reported by the media of the day."
That's a tremendously funny line considering that this story was covered in 2007 by MSNBC. Who was the intrepid reporter who covered the story? Some guy named Tucker Carlson. Kudos indeed to Mr. Carlson for having the courage and the skill to dig up a story hidden deep within the recesses of his own brain. Give that man a Bingham!
I can't wait to see what lies you write tomorrow, Jeff.
spike59| 10.3.12 @ 6:14AM
it's worth reminding people, as this video clearly shows, that ObaMao is a lying sack of festering crap who is more than eager to demagogue any issue or event for political gain, and is, as Harry Reid observed, as 'black' as the situation requires politically...