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Racist/racist-loving rightwingers appear to think they've found another goldmine, to be labeled "racistgate".
Conservative Outlets Push Old Video of Barack Obama Talking About the Poor
Oct 2, 2012 9:25 PM EDT The 5-year-old tape shows him talking about New Orleans, bias and urban despair. Howard Kurtz on how Fox, Drudge and the Daily Caller are casting it as a racial controversy.
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Conservative media outlets trumpeted a five-year-old video of Barack Obama on Tuesday night in which he talked about urban despair, the Los Angeles riots and Hurricane Katrina but made only glancing references to race.
Despite claims that the tape was a racially charged “bombshell,” it shows Obama as a presidential candidate speaking at Virginia’s historically black Hampton University in June 2007—and, according to BuzzFeed, at least part of it has existed online since then.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...o-of-barack-obama-talking-about-the-poor.html
Conservative Outlets Push Old Video of Barack Obama Talking About the Poor
Oct 2, 2012 9:25 PM EDT The 5-year-old tape shows him talking about New Orleans, bias and urban despair. Howard Kurtz on how Fox, Drudge and the Daily Caller are casting it as a racial controversy.
PrintEmailComments (14)
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Conservative media outlets trumpeted a five-year-old video of Barack Obama on Tuesday night in which he talked about urban despair, the Los Angeles riots and Hurricane Katrina but made only glancing references to race.
Despite claims that the tape was a racially charged “bombshell,” it shows Obama as a presidential candidate speaking at Virginia’s historically black Hampton University in June 2007—and, according to BuzzFeed, at least part of it has existed online since then.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...o-of-barack-obama-talking-about-the-poor.html
