{"id":6607,"date":"2012-03-07T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:41:34","slug":"buzzfeed-scoops-breitbart-the-obama-harvard-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6607","title":{"rendered":"Buzzfeed Scoops Breitbart: The Obama Harvard Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last month&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6388\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Breitbart said<\/a> that he had videos of President Obama in his college days at Harvard. The implication was that the content of the videos was so scandalous that it would have an impact on Obama&#8217;s reelection. Breitbart gleefully announced that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have videos. This election we\u2019re going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008. The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, they came out today. But Breitbart&#8217;s survivors at BigGovernment.com had nothing to do with it. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/at-harvard-obama-dived-into-diversity-fight\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;vetting&#8221;<\/em> was done<\/a> by Andrew Kaczynski at Buzzfeed. Kaczynski acquired video from WGBH TV in Boston of the future president speaking at a rally for more diversity in the Harvard faculty.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tz3qShugQ9I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Breitbart crew immediately blasted Buzzfeed for releasing what they said was a <em>&#8220;selectively edited&#8221;<\/em> copy of the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]he video has been selectively edited&#8211;either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama&#8217;s allies in the mainstream media and academia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, I can hardly wait. This should be endlessly informative since the Breitbart clan is intimately familiar with the practice of selectively editing videos. BigGovernment&#8217;s Joel Pollak says that the unveiling of the uncut video will take place tonight on Sean Hannity&#8217;s program on Fox News. There&#8217;s another sign of how much credibility any of this will have. Hannity is famous for airing videos of sparsely attended Tea Party rallies that turned out to be from completely different, and crowded, events.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=newscorpsecom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0465068146&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"alignright\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe most remarkable thing about this video is how little Obama has changed. He had the same oratorical style and poise then as now. At the time Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was speaking on behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Derrick_Bell\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Derrick Bell<\/a>, the first tenured African-American professor in Harvard&#8217;s law school. The occasion was a rally in support of greater diversity in general, and specifically the hiring of an African-American woman in the law school.<\/p>\n<p>Pollak further promised to expose Bell as a <em>&#8220;radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright.&#8221;<\/em> I&#8217;m surprised that he isn&#8217;t also tying him to George Soros, Van Jones, Saul Alinsky, and Che Guevara. However, Bell was a respected legal scholar and author who served in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, at the NAACP as an associate counsel, as the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law and, in addition to Harvard, also taught at USC, Stanford, and NYU. Clearly a dangerous anti-American. But Breitbart&#8217;s ghost is already setting in motion the smear campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Pollak has portions of the video where Obama advocates the violent overthrow of the government by black nationalists or discloses his Kenyan birthplace, but somehow I doubt it. It appears that the Breitbart folks are just upset that their phony plot to trickle out snippets of an entirely harmless video in order to create a fake controversy has been foiled by the lamestream media (if Buzzfeed qualifies as that). Now they will have to resort to smearing the name of a deceased law professor and pretending that there is something wrong with Obama supporting a more diversified Harvard faculty. Fox Nation has already jumped in with an item about this story headlined: <em>Obama Harvard Video: Rally for Race-Based Hiring<\/em>. So there&#8217;s your talking point, righties. Go at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late Breaking:<\/strong> Breitbart&#8217;s site released the <em>&#8220;uncut&#8221;<\/em> video and the only additional footage on it is of Obama embracing the professor he had just introduced. It was not exactly a secret that Obama admired his Harvard law professor. But the real problem for the Breitbart clan is that they have been bashing Buzzfeed all day long about having <em>&#8220;selectively edited&#8221;<\/em> the video, but now they have been shown to be lying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/government-elections-politics\/the-story-behind-the-obama-law-school-speech-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS\/WGBH posted the REAL uncut video here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannity and Co. spent over 20 minutes discussing this embarrassing flop of a scandal, even though the exclusive broadcast of the uncut video offered nothing new. The pair from Breitbart.com (Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak) fidgeted nervously as they desperately tried to set some sort of fire under this non-event, but they utterly failed to come up with anything other than a bumper sticker criticism of Bell which they repeated incessantly to make sure the brainwashing stuck: <em>Derrick Bell is the Jeremiah Wright of academia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just as I suspected, that&#8217;s the talking point they are running with. It&#8217;s so pathetic that I actually feel a little sorry for them. Their leader passed away last week and now they are floundering like lost orphans. What a sad spectacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last month&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference, Andrew Breitbart said that he had videos of President Obama in his college days at Harvard. The implication was that the content of the videos was so scandalous that it would have an impact on Obama&#8217;s reelection. Breitbart gleefully announced that&#8230; &#8220;I have videos. This election we\u2019re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,8],"tags":[597,183,738,977,976],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-andrew-breitbart","tag-barack-obama","tag-biggovernment","tag-derrick-bell","tag-joel-pollak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Iz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6388,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6388","url_meta":{"origin":6607,"position":0},"title":"Andrew Breitbart At CPAC: I Have Videos Of Obama In College","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/11\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As if Andrew Breitbart's performance before some Occupy protesters wasn't pathetic enough, the terminally choleric pundit delivered an incoherent rant from the CPAC podium. 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