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Andrew Breitbart Pushes Race-Baiting 2007 New Black Panther Photobombing Of Barack Obama

by Tommy Christopher | 9:34 am, October 5th, 2011

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Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart is at it again, continuing a years-long effort to falsely tie President Obama to the New Black Panther Party, favorite big black bogeyman of the conservative media. The big story this time is that New Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz photobombed then-Sen. Barack Obama at a commemorative march in Selma, Alabama, in 2007, and that the two “shar(ed) the same podium” at the event. Let’s count the lies and distortions together. (For the uninitiated, the Urban Dictionary defines “photobomb” as (verb)- to drop in a photo unexpectedly…to hop in a picture right before it is taken.)

For those who live in the real world, here’s a quick recap of the right’s long history of trying to scare white people by implying some sort of relationship between the New Black Panther Party and Barack Obama. During the 2008 campaign, reports surfaced that the Obama campaign had posted an endorsement of the candidate, by the NBPP, on its website. But what really happened was that an NBPP member posted a blog in a user-controlled forum (kinda like our comments section), and it was later removed.

In the waning hours of that campaign, the McCain campaign also pushed a story about two NBPP members outside a Philadelphia polling place, who were chased away by police because one of them was holding a nightstick. The group’s leader, Malik Zulu Shabazz, told me the following day that those two members defied his explicit instructions in bringing a weapon to a polling place. He was authentically angry about it, but mainly because of the heat it would bring down on his organization.

That story would become the basis for an overreaching suit by the Bush Justice Department that resulted in default judgments against the two members, and the organization. The Obama DOJ vacated the judgments, citing a lack of legal justification, and obtained an injunction against the man who had carried the nightstick. A politically-stacked Civil Rights Commission took up the case in order to, as one Republican member of the Commission said, “bring Eric Holder down and really damage the President.”

The whole thing got tick-tock coverage on a number of Fox News programs, and across the conservative web, but very little from the mainstream press, except to debunk it.

Just in time for the 2012 election, however, comes more of this silliness, from Andrew Breitbart himself, and his progressive pal, Lee Stranahan.

The lies and distortions in Breitbart’s post, in all fairness, come from former DOJ official J. Christian Adams‘ new book, and not just from Breitbart’s imagination. Distortion nos. 1 and 2 are right in the headline, as Breitbart claims Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panthers In 2007:

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.

The clear implication is a relationship of some sort between Obama and Shabazz, and the implication of that headline, as anyone who knows English can tell you, is that the future president was being hosted by Shabazz and his group, or were somehow in partnership for the event.

What the photos actually show is Malik Zulu Shabazz standing at a podium, and then-Sen. Barack Obama standing at the same podium, at a different time. If this constitutes “sharing the same podium,” as Breitbart asserts, then I have “shared” podiums with Barack Obama for three years now. And no, I’ve never addressed an audience before or after an Obama speech, but there is no proof that Shabazz did either in this instance.

There’s also a grainy screencap of a Youtube video in which Shabazz is visible behind Obama and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton during the march, which commemorated the 42nd anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” In effect, it was a “photobomb.”

He also claims that Shabazz says he “spoke” to Obama at the event, but provides no evidence of this. I located an interview in which Shabazz claims he “met” Obama there, which makes him one of probably thousands who could make the same claim. In any case, Breitbart’s use of Shabazz as a news source is curious, at best.

Breitbart goes on to outright lie about the NBPP and Obama, saying, “Obama’s own campaign website would post an endorsement by the New Black Panther Party in March 2008,” which I covered earlier in this story. At the time, I spoke to a campaign source, who explained that even Fox News had decided to remove the story from their website:

An Obama campaign spokesman explained that the page in question was actually a user-created profile on an innovative campaign forum called “MyBarackObama.com,” modeled after internet communities like myspace and Facebook, and that anyone could sign up for one. He mentioned that Fox News had reported the story, but then took it off of their website. He assured me that the New Black Panther Party had never appeared anywhere else on the campaign’s website, and that they had taken the group’s blog down once they were made aware of it.

I checked, and sure enough, Google returned a link to a Fox News story about the “Official Webpage Endorsement,” the only “legitimate” news outlet that came up. And sure enough, when you click the link, oops! Not there! No retraction, either, mind you.

Breitbart could easily have employed some sophistry and said that an endorsement “was posted” on “Obama’s own campaign website,” but chose, instead, to push the claim further by saying “Obama’s own campaign website would post” the endorsement.

The distortions continue, as Breitbart implies that the White House is hiding something about its visitor logs:

I have been calling for the White House to disclose which Malik Shabazz visited the private White House residence on July 25, 2009, two months after the DOJ voter intimidation case was dismissed. So far, the White House has refused to do so, leaving open the question of which “Malik Shabazz” appears in visitor logs released to the public.

It’s actually not such an “open question,” as the White House has already definitively stated that it was not the NBPP’s Malik Zulu Shabazz who visited the White House:

In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly (“R. Kelly”), and Malik Shabazz). The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House. Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.

It’s not reasonable for anyone to expect the White House to violate the privacy of someone who’s not a public figure, and Breitbart’s premise is characteristically illogical: if the White House is lying when they say it was a different Malik Shabazz, why would Breitbart believe them even if they did answer him? That’s how conspiracy theories work: they are logic-proof.

Most offensive, though, is Breitbart’s comparison of the NBPP to the Ku Klux Klan (which is the real point of this crusade, by the way; to achieve racial absolution for the white man by balancing those scales), and even more so (because he ought to know better) Lee Stranahan’s:

If there was a 4th of July event and the Ku Klux Klan were given a speaker’s slot, would any GOP candidate be stupid enough to speak there?

First of all, there is no evidence in Breitbart’s report that Shabazz was “given a speaker’s slot,” or that he even spoke. For all we know, based on in Breitbart’s report, he was posing for a photo op, which is the first thing everybody does when they come to the White House briefing room. There’s no videotape in Breitbart’s report of Shabazz speaking, which is odd for a guy who’s all about taping his speeches.

Stranahan also makes the claim that the Obama DOJ “doesn’t want you to know” about the NBPP’s history of inflammatory rhetoric, but offers no evidence of this. That’s because there isn’t any.

More importantly, though, Breitbart and the zealots behind this smear are trying to create a Black Menace to scare white voters, and tie it to Barack Obama. Now, no one is saying that the NBPP are good people. The NBPP has been designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. They’re very bad people, but their worst offenses are making a lot of vile statements (many of them right to my face), and getting into a shoving match with some reporters. To equate them with a murderous group like the Ku Klux Klan is offensive; to do so in an attempt to race-bait is despicable.

Their membership numbers are unknown, but I would be shocked if it exceeded the low hundreds. Shabazz was consistently evasive with me about the group’s funding, but did reveal that they are not well-funded. At various times, I’ve tried to contact the NBPP headquarters, and gotten disconnect messages. They are not a menace to anyone. Their primary use is to scare white people, which is apparently pretty easy to do, depending on the white person.

If you doubt the race-baiting nature of Breitbart’s campaign, if the lies and the straining at logic aren’t convincing enough, take a look at how Breitbart’s bloggers use “New Black Panthers” and “Black Panthers” interchangeably. As Stranahan points out, leaders of the original Panthers have denounced the NBPP, even suing them for use of the name, and stating that the New Black Panthers operate on “hatred of white people.”

These Breitbart bloggers obviously know the difference, since they’re tagging these posts accurately, but the point isn’t the ideology of this specific group; it’s the “BLACK,” stupid!

Andrew Breitbart, barack obama, Malik Zulu Shabazz, NBPP, New Black Panther party, Racism

Michelle

Wasn’t it Obama himself that told us to judge him by those he associates with? Well we are Barry and it ain’t pretty. Racists, American-hating preachers, marxist, communists, admitted terrorists, criminals. I think we have a pretty good idea of who you are.

And ps, Tommy, your obsession with Andrew is bordering on the creepy.
rudeboy

lol……..I have been thinking about this question- why do racists like the republican party/right wing?

There are racists in both parties but the republicans seem to attract more numbers and the worst types.

Btw Brietbart is an idiot
Michelle

Oh and Tommy, the Obama admin dropped the charges because they have an agenda and that doesn’t include prosecuting black criminals.

J. Christian Adams’ ‘Injustice’ Exposes Justice Department’s Racismhttp://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46640
Michelle

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46640
Anonymous

Doesn’t the MSM try and tie every conservative to the KKK and SkinHeads? Where is your defense of those people Tommy? Why don’t you go after those attacks? Why are you not offended by those comparisons???
Anonymous

Tommy, I started reading your long missive but gave up with your nonsense about the voter intimidation and the panthers (and the media’s) reaction. That’s when I realized that you and truth parted company a long time before you sat down at your keyboard.

Seriously, you’re doing a lot of race baiting, which is what you seem to accuse Breitbart of.
Socratease

You dizzy yet Tommy?

We’ve all seen the polling place video of the guy with the club saying something about hating crackers. Is he one person in the NBPP? Yes. Did he stand outside of a polling place with a club, and let everyone know that he hates crackers? Yes. That is voter intimidation–not even the stuff that he said, but just being that close to a polling place brandishing a weapon. So can you not understand the outrage over the fact that the Obama administration’s DOJ cleared that man of all charges, when there is clear video evidence that he had broken the law? I don’t see how anyone who is not a left-wing hack like you would see it any other way. And it’s not as if you don’t know that what I’m writing is true, it’s just that it makes a Democratic administration look bad, so you’ll defend them to the bitter end.Also, why isn’t everything you write under the heading of “Column.” I don’t think I’ve read a single one of your stories in the past 6 months that was straight reporting on a TV or other event.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

Once again Super Tommy comes to the president’s rescue! Have no fear Demings… Super Tommy will always be here to defend the “One”
TbagsRstupid

http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/XPGTL.jpg
Anonymous

How can Tommy miss the point? The Black panthers leader preaches violence and hatred towards a group of people based on skin color. The chance that the person has the same, UNUSUAL, name is hard to believe, and for you to accept that at face value is simply partisan and obtuse.

I don’t want racial hate-mongers gaining access to the White House REGARDLESS of what skin color they hate. Don’t you?

The White House would answer ‘no’ if the answer was ‘no’. The White House has to answer the question.
RW

And the Washington Post is pushing a rock.
rudeboy

“And ps, Tommy, your obsession with Andrew is bordering on the creepy”
This is surely hypocritical coming from someone who never fails to criticise and comment on Tommy’s articles. Also, Tommy has an excuse- he is a reporter/writer unlike you, Michelle!
Michelle

Calling Tommy a reporter/writer is quite a stretch. I’d call him an activist/water boy.
rudeboy

Two facts still do not change;

1) Tommy is doing his job
2) You are a hypocrite with respects to obsessing over a person
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

Great article… Big Drew exposed well.
Michelle

1- yes he is doing a great job as Barry’s little lap dog.

2- If me pointing out his out of control bias is obsessive to you, so be it.

ps, speaking of obsessive behavior, you seem to be quite taken with me and every word I write. I’m flattered.
Michelle

1- yes he is doing a great job as Barry’s little lap dog.

2- If me pointing out his out of control bias is obsessive to you, so be it.

ps, speaking of obsessive behavior, you seem to be quite taken with me and every word I write. I’m flattered.
http://twitter.com/notalemming Greg Hedgepath

Racism is Contagiousness!!POINT: Democrats that no longer like Obama. BECAUSE HE IS BLACK?
THe SMEAR machine on the left tells us Obama’s Policy Does Not Matter So this must be about RACE too!http://ow.ly/6O8Ip
http://twitter.com/notalemming Greg Hedgepath

Hey MEDIA ite. PROVE Obama is NOT a Racist. PROVE IT! Prove he is not in love with NBPP.
YOU CANNOT DO IT!
rudeboy

“ps, speaking of obsessive behavior, you seem to be quite taken with me and every word I write. I’m flattered.”

lmao……..you must really be lonely to think that.
Anonymous

It is weird seeing a commemoration of the Selma march – a march for integration between the races – with a racial separatist organization involved in it. These black separatists would have rejected – as they did then and now - any idea of the races getting together under, as Dr. King believed, universal brotherhood.

Really, what was Obama doing with people holding such ugly views?

In any case, as we see with Mr. Christopher’s long winded apologia, black Democrats will simply not be held to a standard by the left that we hold other politicians. To do so is to engage in racism or race-baiting.

You cannot discuss race in America with the left. They simply lecture and don’t listen.
Anonymous

It’s Breitbart….Who cares. Nothing, with the exception of “Weinergate” he has ever posted to one of his little blogs has ever carried any weight. Sherrod, Pigford, Acorn……all debunked, all jokes, all sweaty, lie covered pieces of monkey shit.

Anyone who reads, links, or believes any of the crap that the Breitbag Bunch trots on a daily basis is guilty by association. Of course by guilty…..I mean a moron. Yes Michelle I am talking to you.
Latin2

Hey TommEE, why are the Obama’s so chummy with racist, anti-American, anti-semite, homophobic Nation of Islam?

http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-content/gallery/curts-pictures/web-red-barrow-et-al.jpg

TommEE wrote EXTENSIVELY about a rock that was from the early 80s, yet now claims that 2007 is soooo looooooong ago….LOL

Tommee, once again proves he is nothing but a Liberal lapdog.
Michelle

Haha, debunked! I think you need to look up the definition of debunked, Libbie!
Anonymous

Translation, la,la,la,I can’t hear you.
Anonymous

If Obama had been vetted , even a little , by the lapdog media , this would have been known years ago .

But no . They covered for Obama before and are doing it here .

“… the media have lost any credibility as nonpartisan and disinterested investigators of presidential candidates. That many journalists now admit they were “saps” or accept that Obama was unqualified only confirms prior culpability. After 2008, can anyone possibly take the media seriously if they complain that a candidate will not release his undergraduate transcripts, or that he once bragged that he attended every service (“each week”) of a racist pastor, or that he once liked “blow”? After Obama, an entire array of old gotchas are off the table.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279022/ten-lessons-obama-victor-davis-hanson?page=1
Ntrudr1400

What fools alot of you are. Even as the article is saying Briebart is a lier I see so many just Dying to belive. And for the records it’s Pres. Obama not barry. Regardless weather or not you like him show the office he hold’s the Due respect cause I like alot of you here could never reach that posistion in America
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

WHY DOES ANDREW BRIETBART HATE AMERICA AND APPLE PIE?

WHY IS HE BOMBING PRESIDENT OBAMA?

Is this the best you can come up with, Tommy?

Or is the fact that Obama is pictured with these militant, hate-filled racists as unsettling to you as it is to normal people?
Anonymous

Breitbart has not been wrong yet , but mouthbreathing dolts like Wojo are too dullminded to ignore the MSNBC garbage clogging up their “brains”.
Michelle

Dude, buy spelling for dummies if you want us to take you seriously.
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

You no read real good? The heart of the political problem is a literacy deficit.
Anonymous

Are you a public school teacher in Detroit ?
Anonymous

If there were any serious weight to this ‘supposed’ story it would’ve been taken up across the board by all media, both domestically and abroad. Globally.

Where exactly is the jaw breaking substance that refutes the marking of the Selma March anniversary?

What you have instead is another insignificant piece from Andrew Brightbulb?

Run with it and run hard. Considering how that worked out so well against Shirley Sherrod last time around.
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

Big Drew can be wrong because it is easy to pay mothbreathers like Big Eddie to insult detractors. Big Eddie is a thug all right, just not a made man, not oven a friend of a made man… Just a guy with a duster and a keyboard who will puke on command… Worst kind of fellow.
kit9

‘ big black bogeyman’

That’s racist, Tommy.
Concerned Citizen

My god the way this liberal media covers for Barack Hussein Obama. Relations with Reverend Wright and his black anti-semitic, American hating church for 20 years – no big deal. His relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers who hosted his political career in his living room – no big deal. His communist mentor in Hawaii while growing up – no big deal. His refusal to release medical and school records – no big deal. LA Times wont release video of Obama at a Pro-Palestinian meeting – no big deal. Obama’s relationship with Tony Rezko – no big deal. Solyndra – no big deal. Obama giving speeches with the New Black Panthers – no big deal. Obama SS# issued out of Connecticut – no big deal. I am so disheartened that in my country a man with this shady a background could become president and the press thats supposed to be tough and skeptical of our elected officials protects and covers up for this man everyday.
Concerned Citizen

Hey Tommy, how about reading the new book by the DOJ whistleblower about how the Holder DOJ racial agenda and how they kicked the Black Panther voter intimidation case under the rug. Go educate yourself on the Black Panther/Obama relationship: http://www.amazon.com/Injustice-Exposing-Racial-Justice-Department/dp/1596982772
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

And that makes Obama not hang out with militant racists in those pictures?

Focus, champ.
Michelle

If you can’t rebut what is said, just attack the messenger. You libs are good at that.
Pit Boss

I think it’s refreshing to see the right-wing idiots of this site support a gay guy like Andrew Breitbart. Usually they would call him names and say they don’t want to be subject to his “perverse lifestyle choice”, but not when it’s Andy!
RW

Tommy Christopher is certainly carrying water for: the Obama administration, the Democrats, etc…

What is the point of this website? Is this what Dan Abrams envisioned?
Anonymous

Really….?

Sherrod, edited and lies. I love that they served Breitbag at the Tea Party Terrorists Meeting….err I mean CPAC. http://wonkette.com/437998/breitbart-gets-served-with-shirley-sherrod-lawsuit-at-cpac

Pigford, lies. see… http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/obama-and-the-pigford-cases/

Acorn, edited, lies, and criminal charges. I’ll let you google that one yourself. I just can’t decide which one to link everyone too.

Do I really need to bring in Breitbart’s twink James “I never met a video I didn’t doctor” O’keefe?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012604145.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-maass/acorn-worker-sues-james-o_b_641076.html
I could go on, and on, and on, and on.

Hey why don’t we ask James what he thinks about all this? What the number for the judge who is presiding over his cases….let’s call him.

But I do love to see Breitbag and his followers struggle to get attention. It’s fun to see what crap they will fling against the wall to see if it sticks?
http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

Grammattico is a grown man. If he’s going to insult on an article critical of his boss Big Drew he can handle a bit of what he’s serving for others.
Anonymous

Warning to any tea party activist: Do not behave like the panthers. DO NOT block a polling place with a night stick. Do not call for the death of babies of color and DO NOT intimidate any voter such as the BP did or you will be charged and justifiable be thrown in jail…but only if you’re white. Do as I say…not as they do!
Anonymous

Quick note on commenting. In case you haven’t noticed, I am willing to put up with a fair amount of repartee in these comments, but use of anything other than my name, or an approved variation of my name – Tommy, TC, Tommy X, Tommy Xtopher, Tom, or Thomas, is grounds for banning. Call me by my name, and behave as you would if you were a guest in my home, and you’ll be fine. Fail to do that, and you may be banned.

It would be nice if you would also apply those rules to each other.
Scox

Even in my liberal mind, I don’t think Shabazz “photobombed” the President. That is incredibly imaginative Tommy!
Valerie

Well if it isn’t tiny eddie putz and mole moochelle.

Two huge dumbasses.
Anonymous

ROFL – are you friggng kidding? It took how many weeks before the media even mentioned Reverend Wright? How many MONTHS did it take for the MSM to even mention liberal fancy boy Edwards affair even after there was clear evidence?
TanzbodenKoenig

Wow, I see you’ve really brought the Breitbart trolls out of their lairs, Tommy, you must be hitting close to home. Guess they get in a tizzy when their drunken Prophet is displayed as the racist he really is.
Anonymous

whip out that …..WHITE GUILT CARD!!!!

lay it on the YT!

Teach Y T…that if they don’t subcumb to

W H I T E G U I L T

they will be PUNISHED by the angry and violent BLACK RAGERS who are led by “my People Eric the lying bastard Holder…and by the thinned skinned “SCOURCHED EARTH POLICY” black raging president

and his disiples…the BLACK PANTHERS will be happy to kill cracka’ babies who didn’t subcumb to the WHITE GUILT principles!
Anonymous

whip out that …..WHITE GUILT CARD!!!!

lay it on the YT!

Teach Y T…that if they don’t subcumb to

W H I T E G U I L T

they will be PUNISHED by the angry and violent BLACK RAGERS who are led by “my People Eric the lying bastard Holder…and by the thinned skinned “SCOURCHED EARTH POLICY” black raging president

and his disiples…the BLACK PANTHERS will be happy to kill cracka’ babies who didn’t subcumb to the WHITE GUILT principles!
Mcox4

If you actually spent time to make a positive contribution to this site maybe you will be taken seriously.
Dummy123

Time for another Tommy makeover…..wash/wax/pruning!
Anonymous

…Obammy the poor widdle victim
TbagsRstupid

It is refreshing isn’t it?
Normally you would hear gay slurs and drunken coke head Hollywood weirdo.
TbagsRstupid

Keep Going.

It worked so well 2 years ago.
TbagsRstupid

Is everyone who attended the March on Selma Bridge in 2007 a racist, or just the President you don’t like?
TbagsRstupid

Did you follow the libs lead, or teach by example?
Lizton

Andrew Breitbart is a vile profane race-baiting beast.
Anonymous

Well then like with the Shirley Sherrod falsified controversy, you can have a video that tells a thousand stories, depending on whose editing it.

I’ll believe this when and if there’s a legitimately credible or respected Media and News source outlet, even if it is MONTHS.

On the other hand you can choose believe Andrew Brightbulb for all his supposed worthwhile website ‘abilities’, but I don’t…

It’s not exactly Watergate is it?

There would need to be a little more evidence than ‘I don’t like this President because he’s a Democrat, Socialist, Marxist etc etc etc.’
Michelle

I think he envisioned a Daily Kos light where like-minded libs could get together and spew their hate. Unfortunately for him, a bunch of Conservatives invaded and called them out on their outrageous bias. They try to ban us but we just keep coming back!!
TbagsRstupid

Wait, I thought he was a Muslim from Kenya secretly invading our country with Sharia Law?
Michelle

Delightful, as always, Val!
Anonymous

Disengenuous White Liberals (DWL) feed off of BLACK RAGE…

DWL enjoy mau mauing….these same liberals who run to the all white suburbs to escape the crappy ass inner city schools… they run to stay away from the black bogey men they pretend to befriend!

Liberals still can’t figure out…that BLACK RAGE will never go away…along as black happiness is tied to exploiting white guilt and stealing tax payer money to reward the broken black family strewn across the inner city ghettos…the black rage will only get angrier and angrier…and fueled by Obama and his hatred for all things TRADITIONAL!

…for the feral ghetto people will never be held accountable for their way thru life…they will instead threaten YT’s safety or play the WHITE GUILT card

BLACK RAGE must persist to KEEP YT afraid…and full of guilt…

HOWEVER more and more of us do NOT SUFFER FROM white guilt…

We are armed and ready for the liberal nonsense of the disengenuous white liberals and the violent and angry black bogey men the DWL pretend to befriend…
Tea4dummies

LOL Tommy Christopher lives in the nutjob wingnuts and teabaggers heads rent free.
TbagsRstupid

I believe that is EXACTLY what Dan Abrams envisioned.

Where people come back no matter what to increase page views.

I am sure Dan thanks you on the way to the bank.

http://www.abrams-media.com/mediaite
ChrisG

Hey Greg, PROVE that you do NOT molest the dogs in your neighborhood. PROVE IT! Prove that you do not love to have sex with dogs. YOU CANNOT DO IT!
Onne

Breitbart is still wimpering after Lawrence O’Donnell handed him his ass on The Last Word.
Michelle

Unlike you libs, I like capitalism, so I’m happy to help Dan.
ChrisG

Can you provide one, just one, link to ANY MSM article or report that tries to tie every conservative to the KKK and skinheads?

Just one?

I betchya Tommy would be offended if such a thing existed!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Christopher (Is this an appropriate address?) Little thinned skinned today?

I would be after such a long winded defense of Barry hanging with his boyz!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUZTMSBWYV6LBH2G5ELHXLD7GI Glenn

The NBPP is a joke and no amount of hyping by Breitbart and his lying clones is going to make it any more real.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUZTMSBWYV6LBH2G5ELHXLD7GI Glenn

The MSM absolutely doesn’t. In fact, the MSM has fallen down on the job of tracking down and exposing the radical Christian fringe regardless of what form it takes. There have been more Christian terror attacks, many times more, than Muslim ones over the past 30 years. And that’s using FBI statistics not some easily discreditable blog.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

“First of all, there is no evidence in Breitbart’s report that Shabazz was “given a speaker’s slot,” or that he even spoke. For all we know, he was posing for a photo op, which is the first thing everybody does when they come to the White House briefing room. There’s no videotape of Shabazz speaking, which is odd for a guy who’s all about taping his speeches.”

I think it’s pretty clear Shabazz spoke at the event.
http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/10/zulu.jpg
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=30094

Stranahan Lee Stranahan Malik Zulu Shabazz spoke less than a half hour before Barack Obama did — I’ll post some Exifs to show you….

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarah_d/432979953/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarah_d/432977376/in/photostream/

http://leestranahan.com/why-the-left-wont-state-the-obvious-about-the-new-black-panthers
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUZTMSBWYV6LBH2G5ELHXLD7GI Glenn

The real problem is the conflation of this one guy into a movement that somehow threatens white people. He didn’t specifically threaten anyone and he was removed from the premises the minute someone found out he was there. The right’s accusations are ridiculous and everyone with a brain knows it.
ChrisG

And the Tea Nuts wonder why they are often accused of racism. Just look at the comments on this thread alone.

A small, fringe group that the vast majority of black people condemn sure gets a certain type of white folk all in a tizzy.

If the President is responsible for vettting the views of every person who attended such a large rally, then you tea bagger are likewise responsible for the views of every tea party loon at every tea party event and every racist, hateful and/or insane thing they say.

Thanks! That simplifies things. We can now have no qualms about using a broad brush to paint the tea party as racists!

You DO allow such people to attend your events afterall! Isolated they may be, but there are NUMEROUS instances of racism at tea party events.

Yet, you nonetheless CHOOSE to associate with such people.

So by your standards, you are self admitted racists.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUZTMSBWYV6LBH2G5ELHXLD7GI Glenn

The best is when Breitbag has to write that big ole check to Ms Sherrod for slander. They ought to film that at RealLyinPolitics so we can see him cry.
ChrisG

I thought he was radical liberation theology communist?

Or is he a coke snorting, on the down low, closeted gay man?

Radical anti-war terrorist?

Manchurian candidate working for communist china?

Militant atheist?

Secret Hamas agent?

I get so confused! He keeps switching villainous identities!

One thing we do know is that he is SCARY!

LOL!

I’m torn between pity, disgust, and amusement at the paranoia of these fools.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Fears that the day would turn into a media circus turned out to be justified. The tension between the traditional purpose of this annual civil rights gathering in Selma and the political circus that accompanied the presence of the Presidential race hopefuls was palpable. After Obamaí¢â‚¬â„¢s speech a rally was held at which a number of notable figures from the 1960s civil rights movement and its modern incarnation made appearances. At the circus end of the spectrum, the í¢â‚¬Å“newí¢â‚¬ Black Panther party attempted to make the most of the opportunity presented by the pre-march rally.

Malik Zulu Shabazz certainly looked the part on the podium but botched his opportunity by turning his two minutes into a fiery political speech. Of course, the violence associated with the original Black Panther party, and the anti-Semitism for which the new party has gained the attention of the Anti-Defamation League in the States, did not exactly lend credence to their cause. Instead of appearing to be true supporters of Obama and heirs of the cause of non-violent resistance, the í¢â‚¬Å“newí¢â‚¬ Panthers appeared to be very much children of the MTV generation, dressed up for the event in neo-fascist uniforms, while sporting sunglasses and haircuts reminiscent of a Jay Z CD release party than a political event.

Past and present were much better represented in the truly memorable figures from the original march. John Lewis, a native of Troy, Alabama was present on that fateful day, on 7 March, 1965. …

With that, Obama was ready to take his place at the podium.

http://www.capitalmag.ca/view-from-the-crowd-obama-and-clinton-square-off-in-alabama-by-mairead-pratschke
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TUZTMSBWYV6LBH2G5ELHXLD7GI Glenn

There’s no picture of him shaking hands with them. However there are more than a few pictures of Ron Paul shaking hands with white supremacists. Got anything to say about that? I didn’t think so.
ChrisG

While you are at it, PROVE that the teaparty is not made up of a bunch of fat, racist, inbred fools. PROVE IT! YOU CANNOT DO IT!
Michelle

Nice knowing you Mark!!
ChrisG

The only ones who appear to take the New Black Panthers seriously are themselves.

And easily scared, paranoid white people.

Look at that! They have common ground!
Anonymous

Armed? Ghetto People?

Shouldn’t you be at Stormfront, a KKK Self Help Group or off shooting perhaps chaining or abusing someone physically?

No, I didn’t think so, because that suggests you have a degree of respect for your fellow man…

…Congratulations on proving that.

On the other hand I’m glad to see your world is as comfortable as you are…
ChrisG

He DOES have a knack for getting them in a lather don’t he!

Good for you Tommy!

You write thoughtful intelligent pieces that have the added entertainment bonus of getting the Tea Nuts frothing at the mouth!
Anonymous

GlovesDonahue as Little Caesar…how fitting.

It’s really not difficult to sneak a little bit ignorance into your comments is it? You find it particularly refreshing don’t you…

Keep rolling around it…Little Caesar.
George_goebel

Then you’re pretty good at doing whatever libs do. If you hate us so much, why are you trying so hard to be like us?
joe

just like conservatives hanging with terrorist? holding hands? kissing? hanging with white racists groups?
are we really going to go there?
and i will bet 100,000 that i could give michelle a 5 question test on marxism–5th grade level and she would fail..
michelle–you need to get over the hate–it really is bad on the wrinkles—really~
caconservative

Based on what?
caconservative

Pigford…Erich Holder…no charges, Blacks involved….hmmm….conection….hmmm?
ChrisG

You folks know why the Reverend Wright issue never got traction? Why the american people dismissed the issue and elected him president?

Because any fair minded, rational person can see that Obama is not racist. He is not “an angry black man”.

But that is all some of you can see despite all evidence to the contrary. You are exposing YOUR racism.

I have faith that the majority of americans will continue to see through this nonsense as the race baiting it is.

Y’all keep howling at the racists dog whistles though. It’s good to see you expose yourselves.

Howl away mongrels!
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

You claimed there wasn’t even proof Shabazz spoke. There are numerous images and an article that proves otherwise.

You claim a photo of Shabazz and Obama marching together is nothing more than a photobomb. Where is your proof of that?

You claim that there is no proof Obama and Shabazz spoke, or met, even though Shabazz claims it happened. Where is your proof it didn’t?
caconservative

Charges brought against Breitbart by Sherrod will allow Breitbart, and citizens, to evaluate the compelling evidence of the scam Mrs.Sherrod and others pulled in the Pigford scam by obtaining all the evidence in discovery. I would be surprised if Sherrod doesn’t drop the case when face with full discloser of evidence.
http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

Excellent journalistic work, Tommy. Kudos to you.

By the way, Dan Abrams should give you a raise.
ChrisG

Since you are the one who assumes all black people are enraged and violent, out for revenge against ‘crackers’, maybe it is YOU that has the guilt issues…?
Guest

Lets see the test…

Also, can you make one of the questions “Please name a country in the 20th century that has implimented the marxist philospy into its system of government, who exceeds the quality of life of the average American, displayed more technological advancements, enjoyed a higher GDP in relation to its population, and donated to more money to other countries and nonprofit organizations around the world (both government and privately), regardless of the race, creed, or political philosophy”
Tex45

Breitbart’s attempt to create a modern day Klan movement will fail.
Silverado

Mr. Christopher says:

“ The Obama DOJ vacated the judgments, citing a lack of legal justification”

Obama’s Change promise includes the legalization of a Black carrying a weapon in a polling place.

…should be OK for Whites too.
caconservative

It’s rather hard to show respect to a clown who has done nothing but soil that office since being elected. I’ve tried but, trying to respect the office requires respecting the office holder, and when the office holder doesn’t respect that office, if relieves me of any allegiance to that office. In fact, it then becomes our responsibility to try to clean up that office, which is what we will do in 2012!
RW

Wait a minute… I found it
It didn’t take long to find Dan Abrams explanation of why he started Mediaite and why I question why Mediaite exists today. Mediaite was to expose media hypocrisy, gaffes, and self-righteousness (it has become directed at hypocrisy, gaffes, and self-righteousness only of the the right)
“I want this site to be viewed as objective ” well I don’t see the work of Tommy Christopher as objective. He is a tool of the left.
“While traditional journalism as we have known it is clearly in decline,” And what would be the number one main reason of the decline – traditional journalism is viewed as having a liberal bias. So why is Dan Abrams letting Mediaite mutate into the MSM’s web mirror image?

Here are the highlights from Dan’s note:
A Note From Dan Abrams
by Dan Abrams | 12:38 am, July 5th, 2009

Welcome to Mediaite, the website of and about the media. It’s my hope that after checking out the site you will see this as a unique property that will quickly become the must-read for anyone interested in media, the business of it and the personalities behind it. …

For me, this site is the manifestation of a vision I have had for many years. When I was General Manager of MSNBC I helped create a segment called “Beat The Press” which I then continued on my show Verdict. In that segment, I had some fun with media hypocrisy, gaffes, and self-righteousness. …

Why would I give up the opportunity to edit my own site? There are a number of reasons. Most important, however, I want this site to be viewed as objective – tough and opinionated – but not the Dan Abrams Post. I have strong feelings about many in media and will write opinion columns for the site but the editorial team will determine the editorial content. …

Why start another site about media now? Well, I say: Why not? While traditional journalism as we have known it is clearly in decline, a whole new vibrant media world is springing up to take its place. …

http://www.mediaite.com/columnists/note-from-dan-abrams/
caconservative

Breitbart is being a Patriot by pointing out the crap this idiot president and his administrations assault on the legal citizens of this country, and they are many and growing.
Anonymous

Wow Tommy!

There are slobbering love affairs, and then there’s you. Garbage journ”o”lism again.
Anonymous

The last time Tommy came out against a Big Government story was the Weiner scandal. How’d that work out?

Learn a grow, I say.
OSux

Actually it is because there are many extremely guilt ridden white people. Those people believe that white people are evil and the U.S. is the worst place on the planet. To atone for the evil of white people these guilt ridden people support Obama, Black Panthers, Troy Davis or anyone else who has understandable hatred of white devils.
Lizton

Also demographics are working against Breitbart and his white supremacist goals.
leigh

Tommy, what does it matter that Malik Zulu Shabazz told the two men not to carry weapons. He should have told them not to show up at all at a polling place. What was their objective if it wasn’t to intimidate people? With or without a nightstick they were very big guys and intimidating in their black panther garb.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Don’t give ‘em any ideas Michelle. Look at the Dumbacrat Blunderground!

A veritable liberal kook ’Garden of Eden’ where ALL people think alike!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Hey…….it’s crazy Joe! Haven’t seen you for a while pal! Dodge another commitment hearing, mein Freund?
http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Franken

I dont know what to make of this story, because for all the posturing on either side, Im still not sure what happened that day. Was Shabazz there? That seems true. Did Shabazz speak there? That should be easy to find out but remains unclear. Did he meet with Obama? Again, we dont know.

Tommy is all over this story for two reasons- first, he’s been at odds with Breitbart for years.

Check out this now infamous confrontation Tommy and Andrew had a while back:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/andrew-breitbart-and-tommy-christopher-enjoy-at-spirited-debate-a-cpac/

Secondly, if anyone knows how “the sausage is made”, i.e. distorting a story by playing on an angle rather than the true context, its Tommy Christopher. Therefore Tommy is more than capable of sniffing out Breitbart’s motives here…all he has to do is think, “what would I have done if this happened to Rick Perry?”

If this were a conservative in a questionable situation, Tommy would be on the other end of this story to exploit it in a heartbeat, and Breitbart would be writing the expose piece on Tommy…we’ve seen this song and dance before is all Im saying.
Tea4dummies

Andrew ‘Look at the scary black people’ Breitbart has no credibility beyond the Fox haters.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

And moonbat troll Valerie chiming in.

Still looking for work?
TbagsRstupid

So did Hillary

Whats your point?
TbagsRstupid

Think they will be able to stay on one topic come November 2012?
TbagsRstupid

Dude?

Like, how old are you?
ChrisG

No actually it is not. It is a comment on racism.

You obviously do not understand racism.

Quelle suprise.
Michelle

Thanks RW, that’s very informative.

And Mark! I can’t believe you are still here after the VILE way you talked to Tommy! Looks like you escaped the guillotine this time, my friend!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Liberal here condemn Breitbart’s Big Government story from yesterday, excoriating Obama’s appearance side by side with the leader of the New Black Panther Party. Personally, I think this too would be a non-story if not for the starring role one of his members had in the following video:

http://tinyurl.com/49kt6nh

Real nice stuff, huh? Now certainly, this moron’s beliefs aren’t the official policy of the New Black Panther Party, right? I too would like to believe this but Herr Fuhrer Malik Shabazz REFUSED to condemn King Shabazz’s hateful, racist diatribe even after given many opportunities to do so.

After the Perry non-story with you liberals wetting your diapers over the insensitivity of Perry’s failure to remove the offending obelisk – it leaves me wondering if any of you recognize racism from anyone other than conservatives/Republicans.
Michelle

Tommy, I’d have more respect for your “rules” if you implemented them fairly, but you don’t.
Michelle

And Barry has no credibility beyond his Obamots.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

there is a difference between doing your job as a reporter and spending every waking moment protecting the president.
Onne

WOW First O’Donnell, now Christopher, how many ass whippings can Breitbart take in a week or is he a masochist?
SoThere

Read Obama’s book where he mentions his association with the Black Panthers.

“TMP”
Anonymous

Resorting to denigrating name calling and insults means you don’t have the mental capacity to engage in thoughtful dicussion. It also means you don’t have any meaningful points to make, plus it makes you look bad.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

Race baiting against the “Racist in Chief”? The “One” who had his totally corrupt lap dog Holder drop charges for voter intimidation against the black panthers despite the fact that they already had a conviction? The “Racist in Chief” who ordered the ATF to let thousands of guns he had paid for with taxpayer funds to “walk” to Mexico and the murderous drug gangs there so he could try to claim that the second amendment was the cause of the problem? Doesn’t that make Barry and Holder co-conspirators in the murders of American agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals just so he could try to frustrate the intentions of the second amendment? Isn’t that racist? Doesn’t that qualify as subversion of the constitution? Treason? These are Chicago style CRIMINALS in the white house employing Chicago style politics!
Anonymous

Attention all ignorant white people. YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE SCARED OF OBAMA. He is a nerdy, HALF-WHITE Hawaiian guy from Harvard. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF. SMH
Anonymous

Resorting to insults and ad hominem attacks are the acts of someone who does not posses the ability to make a cogent point, and it is beneath those of us who are your betters.
Michelle

Need some Chapstick?
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

“Breitbart and the zealots behind this smear are trying to create a Black Menace to scare white voters…To equate them with a murderous group like the Ku Klux Klan is offensive; to do so in an attempt to race-bait is despicable.”

What is the Left doing with Gov. Perry and the painted rock?

If Shabazz were a painted rock on the podium next to Obama, would the Left care?

Doesn’t sound like Perry has a racist past, or any ties to racism what so ever, yet many on the Left have jumped on the rock story and smeared him as a racist.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

my point is Tommy was wrong. There is proof that Shabazz spoke.
Anonymous

delete
OSux

Attention, all extremely guilt ridden white people. You have no reason to fear all white people. Some actually even employ you. There is nothing to be afraid of.
Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o
Owl22

You can always count on Breitbart and his trolls to elevate the political discourse. LOL
TbagsRstupid

are you on Breightbarts site with the same zeal going after his insinuations?
Anonymous

andy the idiot must need a shot of media spotlight. . so he begins another scum report to stir up the robotonics. . . . .this man is so beneath the dignity of paying attention, yet they do.
ChrisG

The NEW Black Panther Party has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and condemned by the original BPP. This was covered in the article above if you bothered to read/comprehend it.

No reasonable person denies that the New BPP is racist.

They are also an irrelevent, small, fringe group.

They have as much influence on black americans as Fred Phelps’ group has on mainstream christianity.
Anonymous

I’m just waiting for Breitbart to go overboard so ends up getting put in jail where he belongs.
Anonymous

The media covered for Bush that was for sure.
Anonymous

What the heck does that mean bro. I’m black. Besides, if conservatives think that this is a good way of helping blacks vote republican, then that just shows just how out of touch conservatives are to the real world.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

Mr Tommy Christopher, you are wasting your time acting as a defence attorney for barack obama, you are meant to be asking critical and vital questions about this matter rather than coming to defend the President.

The black panther is to blacks what the KKK is to whites; Tommy and his colleagues in the left-wing media would not defend a conservative Republican(or a presidential candidate for that matter) if he had any distant or close ties with the KKK, even if it was only a photo with a kkk member or an event attended by members of the kkk. The photos at Breitbart clearly shows that Obama attended the black panther event and actually addressed them on the same podium; no conservitave will get a pass if it was the other way around and had to do with the kkk. A good example is the mainstream media’s coverage of the non-issue about a land that was leased to someone else by the Perry family. Obama’s ties to the black panther is clearly a more ctitical issue, yet Tommy decides to come to his defence as if his boss or father was being attacked.
ChrisG

You should get a dog, Lee, and name him “clue” just so you have one.

“Gun Walking” happened under the Bush adminstration, too, nitwit.

http://nation.foxnews.com/fast-and-furious/2011/10/04/bush-blamed-fast-and-furious

Sorry to ruin your fun! You had SUCH a good conspiracy theory going there!

Scary Black Men are trying to TAKE your guns and kill american agents while being Scary Black Men!

LOL.

I’m sure you can think up some other scary plot scary black men are scheming.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

Tommy Christopher, is wasting his time acting as a defence attorney for barack obama, you are meant to be asking critical and vital questions about this matter rather than coming to defend the President.

The black panther is to blacks what the KKK is to whites; Tommy and his colleagues in the left-wing media would not defend a conservative Republican(or a presidential candidate for that matter) if he had any distant or close ties with the KKK, even if it was only a photo with a kkk member or an event attended by members of the kkk. The photos at Breitbart clearly shows that Obama attended the black panther event and actually addressed them on the same podium; no conservitave will get a pass if it was the other way around and had to do with the kkk. A good example is the mainstream media’s coverage of the non-issue about a land that was leased to someone else by the Perry family. Obama’s ties to the black panther is clearly a more ctitical issue, yet Tommy decides to come to his defence as if his boss or father was being attacked.
caconservative

Who is that, standing in the middle of all those Black Panthers? Looks vaguely familiar, kinda like our vaguely present, president.
Anonymous

By that same standard, the entirety of the GOP should be held suspect as well.
azgrandma

No doubt about that, Where did he most recently apppear at none other then the tea party bunch with beck this past weekend.
http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

Hah… good one. When I vote in the republican primary next year, I’m going to sign the little card, for the lady checking the registration logs, “Malik Shabazz.”
Anonymous

Obambi and Co. started the Race BS back in 2008, when no one else would touch it. What a Pathetic Person Obama is! Obama will blame anyone and anything on his list of failures, just like all Failed People do!
http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

If Rick Perry were photographed at an event with David Duke you’d be singing a different tune.
http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

If Rick Perry were photographed at an event with David Duke you’d be singing a different tune.
Anonymous

Hey, Tommy, if it doesn’t matter that Obama has any connection to the NBPP then why does it matter that the name on the visitor log is not that guy?

You liberals never can get your logic straight.
Anonymous

Good job finding that link. I’m not including it in this article at this time for two reasons. Primarily, it isn’t relevant to my criticism that Breitbart provides no evidence that Shabazz spoke at the event, since he didn’t include this link, or any other evidence. Taken at face value, this story also doesn’t prove Breitbart’s assertion that Shabazz was “given a speaking slot.”

The other problem is that this appears to be an anonymously aggregated reposting of someone else’s work. I’m trying to track down the original, but in its current form, and with that banner above it that reads “fiction,” it’s not usable.
Anonymous

free speech police lol
Anonymous

free speech police lol
Anonymous

Tommy writes:

“The group’s leader, Malik Zulu Shabazz, told me the following day that those two members defied his explicit instructions in bringing a weapon to a polling place. He was authentically angry about it, but mainly because of the heat it would bring down on his organization.”

So Shabazz acknowledged a ‘weapon’ was used/at the Philly polling place? Tommy, you called the DOJ suit an ‘overreach’. You believe members of an organization bringing an acknowledged ‘weapon’ by one of the groups leaders to a polling place, overreach?

Are you OK with no followups or suits to your own described “hate group” in bringing a weapon to a polling place. That’s where you stand?

And Tommy, you believe that with Shabazz acknowledging a weapon was at Philly polling place means that was not menacing to anyone? [not a menace to anyone]
Anonymous

unlike the washington post story that provides the evidence of unnamed sources about a rock years ago lol
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

ChrisG – one more time for those still having trouble comprehending the double standard here. Try to focus please!

My only issue here is where is the outrage! Obama associated either directly or indirectly with members of a designated hate group and not a peep from the mainstream press.

Perry – A rock on his property with offensive words painted on it, not by Perry or his family mind you and we have four days of ridiculous speculation, accusations, condemnations, and boxes full of soiled liberal diapers.

Please, explain the double standard. I know most of you liberals have no such thing as pride so I’m sure someone will be willing to give it a shot!
Anonymous

That’s iffy. Mr. Christopher, if you must. I’ll let it go this time.
Anonymous

My house, my rules.
Anonymous

Thanks. Actually, he just did.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

Sorry, but occupations both current and previous compell me to call most people by their last names.

Now if’n your last name was Tibbs!
Anonymous

well thanks for admitting they are not fairly applied…..give you a A for honesty there
OSux

It means that this country is filled with black racists (e.g. marcoogs) and extremely guilt ridden white people (e.g. Tammy Christopher). If you think that celebrating and protesting with Malik Zulu Shabazz is a way to help you or any other black racist than you are further out of touch with the real world.
Anonymous

And you’re worth every damned penny too!
Big thanks for writing this attack on Breitbart like I asked you to do the other day! You never let us down!
Anonymous

Don’t fall for it Tommy!
If Breitbart didn’t post video evidence of Malik Shabazz speaking from the same podium as President Obama then you aren’t obligated to post evidence which would debunk one of your attacks on him!
Anonymous

Watch it bud! Tommy just got a big fat raise and he’s in no mood to put up with your baloney!
Owl22

Breitbart is clearly using the Palin media whore model, say something outrageous on a pre-determined interval that incites your lunatic followers than bath in the attention.
Fudge441

Breitbart is a bagger, this is what these people do.
Anonymous

I love how when you found out I was black, you instantly accuse me of agreeing with the panthers. You obviously show how ignorant you are. Your whole statement is so off the wall that I don’t know what to do with myself. I never said I was supporting the panthers. I have NO interest in the black panthers and their close minded racisim at all. You wanna call me racist when you are the one making ignorant generalizations. I have a problem with people like you Breitbart who wake up every morning and dedicate yourself to making our president look bad, JUST because you disagree with his politics. The worst thing you can do is liken Obama to the black panthers, and its extremely irresponsible, and unjustified to scare old white people into grouping Obama with these ignorant guys.
jonathan dickerson

I was actually there that day. I brought my wife and three kids to spend the day commemorating “Bloody Sunday”. There was a huge crowd. You had Obama speaking at a church on one end of the street and Hillary Clinton at a church on the other end. There were all kinds of people in attendance and, yes, there were a group of Black Panthers. As a matter of fact, my little girl and I stood next to the Black Panther members while Obama was speaking. The church was packed so we had to stand outside near the PA system to listen. The Black Panthers were no more associated with Obama (or Hillary for that matter) than was the lady selling hotdogs. They were in line, just like the rest of us, hoping for a seat inside the church; and just like the rest of us, had to stand outside when the building was filled.
Nancillarypeloslinton

Barack Hitler Obama marching with the Black KKK? Isn’t that just special?
Michelle

Wow, all that power is such a turn-on.
NDanielson

The only thing we find perverse about homosexuality is that you leftnuts call it mainstream, teach it to our kids, and force yourselves into traditional and once privileged institutions. It used to be a privilege to serve our military, now it’s a right. When it becomes mandatory that you are gay in the military, we won’t have one. And I love the way you call it perverse, though, and none of your leftnuts call you out for it. Want to see a cool SF gay pride parade? Imagine if there was an equally cool heterosexual parade. You’d still feel left out, huh, PB? LOL.

WARNING NSFW! http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php
NDanielson

Check out a refreshing gay rights parade, tgag! Enjoy. Were you there to enjoy it???

WARNING NSFW!!! You may not be old enough to enter, tgag!

http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php
OSux

Fudgepacker441 is a professional bagger.
OSux

Marc does not like the truth. I was wondering what do you think of Rev. Wright and those that sat in his church and listened to him and cheered him on? Go ahead. Prove you are not a racist.
NDanielson

Tommy Christopher is everything he accuses Breitbart of being. Projection, meet projectionist. Sad that you don’t have an O’Keefe working for you Tommy? Hey, Tommy, Breitbart is a “conservative activist”, do you ever identify yourself as a liberal activist? Do your buddies in “journalism” identify you as such?
NDanielson

Moosenuts supplies the bags.
Anonymous

I think I shall call you “Bro”……”TBro”…..now ya can’t kick me outta your house for that?

You are going to kick me outta your house, huh?
Imomsixi

For those who don’t know this little fact. Obama’s first Community Organizing job was at the New York Community School of Harlem, the birth place of the Black Panthers. For those that want to call me a liar, Obama said so in his great (?) autobiographies.
NDanielson

Hey, 0bama sat in a black theology church for 20 years, can we call him a follower of black theology?
Anonymous

Do I still get 15%?
Imomsixi

I respect the Office of President, I do not respect the man in that office right now. No, we do not have to respect him because he is in the office. I believe in earning respect. All the lies and damage he has done, convinces me beyond a shadow of a doubt he is not fit to sit there.
He is an abject failure and always has been. The only thing genuine with him is his great love for himself and an inflated opinion of himself. What two phonies. His old woman shopping at Target, but spending 10 million dollars on all their vacations. Which by the way those vacation, people’s money spending two would never go any where if they had to spend their own money. How many more people that are unknown and have their America hating ideas going to need to line obama’s pockets with before you guys wake up.
NDanielson

Welcome to black theology nation! Hey Tommy that doesn’t make him racist does it??? Didn’t he sit in a black theology church for 20 years???

Black theology refers to a variety of Black theologies which have as their base the liberation of the marginalized, especially the injustice done towards Blacks in American and South African contexts. Black theology mixes liberation theology and the work of Paulo Freire with the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Revelation

Black theology is not bound to biblical liberalism, but is of a more pragmatic nature. Only the experience of black oppression is the authoritative standard.
Salvation

Salvation is a collective freedom from the oppression and pertains to blacks in this life. Proponents of black theology are concerned specifically with the political and theological aspects of salvation more than the spiritual. In other words, salvation is physical liberation from white oppression, or “The white enemy” (Cone) rather than freedom from the sinful nature and acts of each individual person. Presenting heaven as a reward for following Christ is seen as an attempt to dissuade blacks from the goal of real liberation of their whole persons.

“A white man who is in power cannot be a Christian, unless he gives up that power and give it to the black man” – James Cone on Black Theology
Church

The church is the focus of social expression in the black community where the Black church can express freedom and equality. Thus the church and politics have formed a cohesion where the theological expression of the desire for social freedom is carried out.

Notice in the last sentence that there appears to be no “separation of church and state”. Hey, Tommy, how do you spin this one?

Wright, who began the “Ministers in Training” (“M.I.T.”) program at
Trinity United Church of Christ, has been a national leader in promoting
theological education and the preparation of seminarians for the African-American church. The church’s mission statement is based upon systematized Black liberation theology that started with the works of James Hal Cone.
Imomsixi

I am a Republican and a Teaparty person. i have never seen anything of a racist nature where we are involved. i won’t do a blanket statement as you did and call everyone a liar and a fool that connects Republicans and teaparty people with racism
Pit Boss

“ It used to be a privilege to serve our military, now it’s a right. When it becomes mandatory that you are gay in the military, we won’t have one.”

What you said there starts off with pure stupidity and ends up making zero sense. Thanks, you proved my point ya homophobic douchebag.
rudeboy

The racist signs at the first tea party rallies and the fringe neo-nazi groups associated with the tea party are not racist?
ChrisG

you have NEVER received a racist email…heard a racist joke, from a conservative friend or relative?

really?

you’re either a liar or have no friends.
TbagsRstupid

Herman Cain was born in Memphis TN the same place Machine Gun Kelly was born and the home of the West Memphis Three.
ChrisG

show ANY compelling evidence of Obama ‘associating’ with the NBPP and then perhaps we can discuss double standards and outrage.

I don’t waste any time on the paranoid delusions that spring forth from the fevered teabagger brain.
TbagsRstupid

Thanks for your story.
Wish I could have been there.

It is a sad sad day when the reflection upon such a sad day is used in such a horrible manner.
ChrisG

What? Are you telling me not ALL black people are black panthers????!!!!

No way!
ChrisG

What if he was at an event or even organized an event with preachers who called the catholic church the great whore???

Or one that said god sent nazis to hunt the jews?

Huh? What THEN!

Or said Oprah was the anti-christ?

Or the statue of liberty was a satanic symbol?

I bet Perry wouldn’t be caught dead in the same room with such people! Right?

What if McCain hung out with a guy who said to aim for the head when shooting federal agents since they wear bullet proof vests, Huh, huh? THAT would be something!
NDanielson

You called gay lifestyles perverse. Yep, I guess that I proved that it is how you feel, not me. To each his own.

Here, check out a gay pride parade. Heterophobic douchebag. If you can get to the end, you have a chin of steel.

http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php
TbagsRstupid

Yeah,

This one was EVERYWHERE
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is
planning on keeping a contribution from a former grand wizard of the Ku
Klux Klan, according to a campaign spokesman.

Don Black, who runs the “Stormfront” website with the motto,
“White Pride World Wide,” recently donated $500 to Paul. Black is a
South Florida resident, and is married to the ex-wife of former
Louisiana legislator David Duke, himself a former Klansman.

Read more: Ron Paul campaign keeps white supremacist money http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=45152#ixzz1ZwlhUKyn

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=45152
TbagsRstupid

Yeah,

This one was EVERYWHERE
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is
planning on keeping a contribution from a former grand wizard of the Ku
Klux Klan, according to a campaign spokesman.

Don Black, who runs the “Stormfront” website with the motto,
“White Pride World Wide,” recently donated $500 to Paul. Black is a
South Florida resident, and is married to the ex-wife of former
Louisiana legislator David Duke, himself a former Klansman.

Read more: Ron Paul campaign keeps white supremacist money http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=45152#ixzz1ZwlhUKyn

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=45152
Tea4dummies

Breitbart lives in LA so he must be connected to Charles Manson. LOL You baggers need to try harder in your lame smears.
Tea4dummies

You had time to get all that out with those black helicopters hovering over your house!
NDanielson

You got those sharp debating and avoidance skills from Barry 0bama? Or for Barry 0bama? What do you think of that black theology? Nice, huh? Hey they’re not racists are they?
NDanielson

You got those sharp debating and avoidance skills from Barry 0bama? Or for Barry 0bama? What do you think of that black theology? Nice, huh? Hey they’re not racists are they?
NDanielson

You guys don’t debate, you just hit and run. Dummy.
Anonymous

It doesn’t get any funner than this – Tommy is calling out someone else about their lies and distortions while he lies and distorts on a regular basis.

This is beyond water carrying Tommy, this is campaigning.
NDanielson

Hey did Breitbart hang in a racist church for 20 years? I know rhetorical question. You ‘heart’ 0bama no matter what, huh? Or is the church not racist? Who knows, you little lame hit and run posters really don’t say, do you? Just cutesy names and cutesy posts.
Anonymous

Edmund Pettus Bridge 42nd Anniversary Right to Vote and Bridge Crossing Jubilee – and not an Obama Campaign March
Anonymous

@aab79a4243536b1240d221409e13c731:disqus
Tommy Christopher ??? Thanks for TELLING THE TRUTH ….. I see the many haters you have – but I am glad to see that these crazy and sick right wingers just want to cling to a lie from breitbart and fox news …. and not ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH ….
What a shame it is that they show their hatred THIS OPENLY - I am SO GLAD that GOD has GIVEN ME THE TRUTH.and not fall to STRONG DELUSIONS like the right has.
http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

I can’t wait for some clever person to dig out all the skeletons in Breibart’s closet. Like that old white robe and hood; or all the cancelled checks from the Koch sleeeeeze Brothers; or history of sexual perversion….. YOU KNOW ITS ALL THERE! someone just has to find it and put an end to the professional sleazebag.
Kjrempel

Better be careful, Breitbart always has more pictures!
Anonymous

This kid must have attended the FUX News academy of deception.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EWU74XZCZDTLKLABMUFIXTU74I More

Good point. I remember Tommy’s softball interview with the racist from the NBP party. LOL…Tommy looked like a scared little boy.
Anonymous

“debunked” to gain valid facts by looking anywhere other than a “tea” site!…. defined
Anonymous

Like that’s not a whistle.
Anonymous

We should never let facts stand in the way of hate and lies!
Bob

Breitbart is the Perez Hilton of politics.
Anonymous

Well, since you asked, their stated objective was to go to polling places in primarily black districts (like the one in Philly) to *prevent* voter intimidation. According to Shabazz (at the time), there had been threats of such activity by white supremacists.
Anonymous

What’s unfair about them? I make no such admission.
Anonymous

lol, my house, my rules, whats unfair about them? nothing. Are the applied fairly? never. but nice spin tommy since i never said the rules were unfair lol
Anonymous

Get some new material, son. Your act is showing its age.
Tyshunn

“If Obama had been vetted , even a little , by the lapdog media , this would have been known years ago”
IT WAS BROADCAST ON NATIONAL TELEVISON! Are you people insane?
Tedderman

Why Michelle, do you have such a deep and abiding hatred of the truth and facts?
Tedderman

Using your logic John, we can deduce that George W. Bush, who met with then posed for a picture with Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian deported for his ties to terrorism was in fact a terrorist himself. A pass was not only given to Bush, the quarterback(media)took a sack.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian
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Anonymous

Dear Rude,

Why make things up? Unless your definition oif “racist” translates into “not supporting Obama,” there were no racist signs at the first-or any–TEA Party rally. There were no neo-Nazis, either, unless you go with the Left’s definition of “Nazi” as “anyone who doesn’t dislike Sarah Palin.”

These sorts of definitions are, of course, absurd, the sorts of things the intellectually-bankrupt substitute for actual thinking: having no real command of the language, or resenting where its legitimate use might lead them, they make up one of their own: sound-bites that self-satisfyingly replace fact with theory.

So “racist” is the TEA Party that Herman Cain has emerged as our preferred candidate. Unlike Mr. Obama, Mr. Cain is not a globe-trotting preppie who has been handed everything from birth, and, before overseeing the ruin of the American economy, never ran–or even accomplished–anything. Mr. Cain, on the other hand, is the son of a maid and a chauffer who grew up in the segregated South and went on to become the CEO of a major American corporation-which he turned around by his own will and effort, the president of his industry’s trade association and the chairman of a Federal Reserve bank.

Now, Rude, I am a committed TEA Party supporter. I have also been a supporter of Mr. Cain since the first days he mentioned he might run. So, am I a racist? If so, is it because I loathe the ineptitude and vile policies of Mr. Obama, or because I support someone who actually knows what he’s talking about?

Words have meanings, Rude. The Left’s redefinitions are silly, because the words they mangle still mean what they mean. Why be silly with them?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

Hey lefties, what are you going to do when it’s proved your progressive/socialist god and his flunky Holder instigated the “fast and furious” crime to subvert the second amendment? They knew people would be killed with the guns they FORCED gun stores to sell to Mexican criminals. U. S. agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals have been killed with those weapons. That makes them both accessories to MURDER!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

What are the lies? Be specific you lying brain washed obomaton!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

For what? Exposing the hypocrisy and LIES OF THE LEFT? The communists in the KGB used to call fools like you “useful idiots”. Now your just idiots.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

His political stupidity, his wanting to emulate the European style of socialist government even as we witness it collapsing around their ears, the rapidity with which he is destroying this economy, his attempt to subvert the second amendment through “fast and furious”, the subsequent murders of U. S. agents and Mexican nationals with those weapons that he and Holder funneled to the Mexican drug gangs, the fact that that makes them accessories to those murders are just some of what intelligent aware people find frightening!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

Witness a regime in collapse! His political stupidity, his wanting to emulate the European style of socialist government even as we witness it collapsing around their ears, the rapidity with which he is destroying this economy, his attempt to subvert the second amendment through “fast and furious”, the subsequent murders of U. S. agents and Mexican nationals with those weapons that he and Holder funneled to the Mexican drug gangs, the fact that that makes them accessories to those murders are just some of the things that intelligent aware people find frightening in this farce of a white house!
Anonymous

None of the questions you ask have anything to do with what I wrote. Reread the article (or have someone else read it to you), and try again.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

yea. all the photos titled Malik Zulu Shabazz speaks, and an article about him speaking, just aren’t proof enough that he spoke….
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705066677 Desiree Bell-Fowlks

Well there’s the black panthers and the new black panthers. Learn the difference.
Anonymous

The whole thing got tick-tock coverage on a number of Fox News programs, and across the conservative web, but very little from the mainstream press, except to debunk it.

Wait. Did Tommy Christopher just link to his own article in context to what the “mainstream press” has done with this story?

Oh, this is just too much.

Not ‘fevered, hyper-partisan, dog-whistle-blowing progressive blogger.’ No. “Mainstream press.”

Lawl.
David

Michelle please get an education and stop letting Fox and AM radio rot your brain.
zerofor

Israel.
zerofor

Read the article. There is a DIFFERENCE between the Black Panthers and NBPP.
delina

Its funny how the only racism that exists is reverse racism. White people are still the most vile evil racists on the planet.
Anonymous

Okay, I get it. You dopes hate Liberals.

Consider this:

Liberals are basically responsible for
1. Entering and winning WWI
2. Entering and winning WWII
3. Ending Prohibition
4. Medicare
5. Medicaid
6. The G.I. Bill
7. The Minimum Wage
8. COBRA
9. FDIC

All of those things were fought against VIGOROUSLY by Republicans at the time– to the degree that Republicans actually gave speeches on the floor of Congress DEFENDING Hitler.

So my question is this:

In the last 100 years, what has the Republican Party done to benefit *you*?

Not all at once, now. Given the tone of your impassioned debate, I assume there must be MANY MANY things you want to list.

Go ahead…

**** sound of crickets chirping ****
Maccaronilover

Prove that he is!
Robert J Wade

To: Lee…You’ve gathered a lot of “Facts”, of which none are true. Save us all your fact finding over-views, join hands with this idiot Breitbarth and simply admit that you do not like, nor can you tolerate this Black man with the African name residing in “Your” sacred White House.
You and people like you, along with this low-life Andrew Brietbarth truly disgust me.
SoThere

I was around when they were called “The black Panthers” and believe me they were ten times worse than the NBPP. Changing their name didn’t change their racism, they just stopped blowing up buildings, robbing banks and killing cops (and that’s questionable). I’m sorry that you don’t know anything about the Nations history and the activities of these groups but that’s not my problem. So your point is?

“TMP”
Sandie

except the BPP blew things up and had no problem with killing people, while the NBPP has yet to blow things up -just wait and see. They are confrontational and bullies., and just waitn g for the right time to pull something.
SoThere

The NBPP is a racist hate group. All the leftists attempts to try and say otherwise is absolute nonsense. Here’s their beliefs.

Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism,Anti-capitalism, Anti-Zionism, Anti-imperialism. They were also listed as a hate group at the Southern Poverty Law Center until all mention of them was recently scrubbed from their site.

“TMP”
Robert J Wade

Again, we have an example of White person showing his stance on race in this country. To make it sou nd official, he comes up with all this crap about Rev. Wright and Hal Cone??? Do you ever wonder when these White bigots are going to be shouted down and sent back to the trash heap of shameful history?
When these right wing Teapublicant leaning racist make a comment, it’s about standing up for the American way. When someone on the left pushes back at these bigots, it’s immediately called playing the “Race Card”.
Until these people like Brietbarth and this NDanielson come to the realization that a brian can be installed in a Black man as well as a White man, this country is doomed to continue it’s silly, but sad journey down the road of idiotsy.
NDanielson

You have no clue of my color, LOL, bigot. I noticed you skipped right over Wright and Cone. Nice people that Barry hung out with??? No opinion? Not enough brain there to deal with it?

Full of cutesy names: teapublican? At least you make it a proper noun. Cute, again. Hey, are Wright and Cone standing up for the “American Way”. Just answer the question, without getting into he’s a marine like John Murtha and Timmy McVeigh, if you can. LOL. You can’t. You attack the messenger pointing out your beloved Barry and his hate for this country and its “bitter clingers”. LOL. Bigot.

Cutesy name number two: Breitbarth??? Cain has a brain. Obama does not. I guess that shoots that theory to hell, Bobby? Yours is more like Barry’s. You and he belong in the trash heap of “shameful history”.

Cain has made something of himself. 0bama cheated for everything he has. Cain has an open past, 0bama’s is hidden. Cain is a success in every thing he does. 0bama has nothing to prove that shows he’s ever been a success at ANYTHING. Except for campaigning, 0bama is a dismal FAILURE.

Hey, genius, what dictionary is “idiotsy” in? Victim of public schools, too?

Hey, lest you forget the question: are Wright and Cone standing up for the “American Way”? Sheer idiocy to even think you’d answer. CLOWN.
NDanielson

See above. Give it your best shot. Son. Boy.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

What are left wing race baiters like yourself going to do when these things are proved true?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1137703668 Zane Cofield

The most amazing and flabbergasting facet of this whole thing is that Tommy thinks he’s a journalist.