DNC scrambles to deflate Obama video before Daily Caller story published

Skulnik · Oct 2, 2012

DNC scrambles to deflate Obama video before Daily Caller story published

Published: 8:36 PM 10/02/2012

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The Democratic National Committee ? armed with the help of dismissive tweets from a variety of journalists ? scrambled Tuesday night to attack The Daily Caller for its videos of President Obama?s controversial race comments in 2007 before the story was even published.
Using comments from reporters speculating on TheDC?s report, the Democrats quickly worked to dismiss the story it hadn?t seen yet ? which was teased Tuesday afternoon on Sean Hannity?s radio show and on the Drudge Report ? by calling it ?lame.?
At about 7:30 p.m. ET, the DNC Rapid Response team sent an email to reporters titled ?That was Lame,? listing ?instant reaction to the latest lame Drudge/Hannity desperation tactics.?
The email merely included tweets from journalists ? before the story was published ? expressing skepticism and disinterest and the mistaken claim that the video had been published before.
The tweets used by the Democratic National Committee came from reporters at organizations including Politico, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine and the Atlantic.
The mere prospect that videos of Obama talking about race and his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would be published had the committee quickly working to kill the story.
In an attempt to link the story to Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the DNC also sent out an old story about Romney saying he would not make Wright a campaign issue.

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Skulnik · Oct 2, 2012

Exclusive: In heated ?07 speech, Obama lavishes praise on Wright, says feds ?don?t care? about New Orleans [VIDEO]

Published: 8:50 PM 10/02/2012

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In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.
?The people down in New Orleans they don?t care about as much!? Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims ?part of the American family.?
The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama?s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.
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Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a ?transcript? of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.
Obama begins his address with ?a special shout out? to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama?s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of ?inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color? became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, ?my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He?s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.?
By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem. Wright told The New York Times earlier that year that he would no longer be speaking on the campaign?s behalf because his rhetoric was considered too militant. And yet later in the Hampton speech Obama explicitly defends Wright from unnamed critics, a group he describes as ?they?: ?They had stories about Trinity United Church of Christ, because we talked about black people in church: ?Oh, that might be a separatist church,?? Obama said mockingly.
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Skulnik · Oct 2, 2012

Obama EXPOSED as the RACIST he is.

JMHO

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theGibber1 · Oct 3, 2012

Huh.. Didnt know Obama was a Southern Pastor?

Love how he changes his voice to manipulate his audience..It was even funnier when Hillary tried to pull it off though.. Or Bidens "put yall back in chains" comment.. I would love to see anyone but a liberal get away with that one.

To me when you change the inflection in your voice to cater to the black demographic it is not only racist but also very cheap and fake. The sad thing is even as transparent as this parlor trick is the audiences eat it up.

Whats next when he speaks to the latino crowd he is going to start rolling his R's??

Skulnik · Oct 3, 2012

theGibber1 said:
Huh.. Didnt know Obama was a Southern Pastor?

Love how he changes his voice to manipulate his audience..It was even funnier when Hillary tried to pull it off though.. Or Bidens "put yall back in chains" comment.. I would love to see anyone but a liberal get away with that one.

To me when you change the inflection in your voice to cater to the black demographic it is not only racist but also very cheap and fake. The sad thing is even as transparent as this parlor trick is the audiences eat it up.

Whats next when he speaks to the latino crowd he is going to start rolling his R's??

Maybe Obama will debate Romney with that voice tonight.

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Skulnik · Oct 3, 2012

Skulnik · Oct 3, 2012

Obama sounds a little like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, what a RACIST this man is.

Nuff Said

Trampled Underfoot · Oct 3, 2012

theGibber1 said:
Love how he changes his voice to manipulate his audience..It was even funnier when Hillary tried to pull it off though.. Or Bidens "put yall back in chains" comment.. I would love to see anyone but a liberal get away with that one.

To me when you change the inflection in your voice to cater to the black demographic it is not only racist but also very cheap and fake. The sad thing is even as transparent as this parlor trick is the audiences eat it up.

Whats next when he speaks to the latino crowd he is going to start rolling his R's??

Hey gibber, are you a linguist? Maybe you should talk to some. Once again you are totally off base but what else is new. Your posts have been shit lately. I hope you pick it up.

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