[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

"The 2nd Impeachment: Trump’s Popularity Still Scares Them to Death"

"President Badass"

"Jasmine Crockett's Train Wreck Interview Was a Disaster"

"How Israel Used Spies, Smuggled Drones and AI to Stun and Hobble Iran"

There hasn’T been ... a single updaTe To This siTe --- since I joined.

"This Is Not What Authoritarianism Looks Like"

America Erupts… ICE Raids Takeover The Streets

AC/DC- Riff Raff + Go Down [VH1 Uncut, July 5, 1996]

Why is Peter Schiff calling Bitcoin a ‘giant cult’ and how does this impact market sentiment?

Esso Your Butt Buddy Horseshit jacks off to that shit

"The Addled Activist Mind"

"Don’t Stop with Harvard"

"Does the Biden Cover-Up Have Two Layers?"

"Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Reinstated by MLB, Eligible for HOF"

"'Major Breakthrough': Here Are the Details on the China Trade Deal"

Freepers Still Love war

Parody ... Jump / Trump --- van Halen jump

"The Democrat Meltdown Continues"

"Yes, We Need Deportations Without Due Process"

"Trump's Tariff Play Smart, Strategic, Working"

"Leftists Make Desperate Attempt to Discredit Photo of Abrego Garcia's MS-13 Tattoos. Here Are Receipts"

"Trump Administration Freezes $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses to Meet Demands"on After Harvard Refuses to Meet Demands

"Doctors Committing Insurance Fraud to Conceal Trans Procedures, Texas Children’s Whistleblower Testifies"

"Left Using '8647' Symbol for Violence Against Trump, Musk"

KawasakiÂ’s new rideable robohorse is straight out of a sci-fi novel

"Trade should work for America, not rule it"

"The Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race – What’s at Risk for the GOP"

"How Trump caught big-government fans in their own trap"

‘Are You Prepared for Violence?’

Greek Orthodox Archbishop gives President Trump a Cross, tells him "Make America Invincible"

"Trump signs executive order eliminating the Department of Education!!!"

"If AOC Is the Democratic Future, the Party Is Even Worse Off Than We Think"

"Ending EPA Overreach"

Closest Look Ever at How Pyramids Were Built

Moment the SpaceX crew Meets Stranded ISS Crew

The Exodus Pharaoh EXPLAINED!

Did the Israelites Really Cross the Red Sea? Stunning Evidence of the Location of Red Sea Crossing!

Are we experiencing a Triumph of Orthodoxy?

Judge Napolitano with Konstantin Malofeev (Moscow, Russia)

"Trump Administration Cancels Most USAID Programs, Folds Others into State Department"

Introducing Manus: The General AI Agent

"Chinese Spies in Our Military? Straight to Jail"

Any suggestion that the USA and NATO are "Helping" or have ever helped Ukraine needs to be shot down instantly

"Real problem with the Palestinians: Nobody wants them"

ACDC & The Rolling Stones - Rock Me Baby

Magnus Carlsen gives a London System lesson!

"The Democrats Are Suffering Through a Drought of Generational Talent"

7 Tactics Of The Enemy To Weaken Your Faith

Strange And Biblical Events Are Happening

Every year ... BusiesT casino gambling day -- in Las Vegas


Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

politics and politicians
See other politics and politicians Articles

Title: Local News Station Confirms: Obama Footage ‘Is Not Hidden’
Source: RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/ ... s-obama-footage-is-not-hidden/
Published: Mar 8, 2012
Author: By Eric W. Dolan
Post Date: 2012-03-08 19:00:02 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2471
Comments: 5

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night made the dubious claim that Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a former mentor of President Barack Obama, purposefully hid footage from the media in 2008.

But Ogletree could not have suppressed the footage even if he wanted to. Local news station WGBH confirmed to Raw Story that it owns the footage and controls its distribution.

On his show, Hannity said he revealed a video that “by their very own admission, friends of Barack Obama have been keeping under lock and key.” Hannity later claimed that the footage “was intentionally covered up according to a close confidant of the president, and that’s Harvard professor Charles Ogletree.”

“It is not hidden,” Jeanne Hopkins, vice president of WGBH Communications & Government Relations, said in an email.

PBS Frontline included the footage in their election special The Choice 2008.

In the video from 1990, Obama is seen encouraging students to “open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor Bell” and then hugging the Harvard law professor.

Breitbart.com and Hannity accused Olgetree of intentionally covering up the video because of a lecture he gave about Obama in 2011.

“In 1990, [Bell] held his first demonstration,” Ogletree explained. “He said I am going to take an unpaid leave until Harvard hires some more diverse faculty members. What’s interesting is that you can see from this I’m sure in a second that there was a huge rally here at Harvard in 1990… but many people forget that the person who introduced Derrick Bell that day was Barack Obama. And it is interesting because you can see in the way in which he is a hero of people, but he is not afraid to talk about race, about how much he’s learned from Bell without even being in Bell’s classroom, which reinforces the sense that he is paying attention even when he is not the subject of the discussion.”

“We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign — I don’t care if they find it now,” Olgetree said with a chuckle after playing the footage.

He appeared to be joking.

Olgetree ironically noted near the end of his lecture that he had to be careful with his words, because they could be used by Obama’s opponents.

“The only reason I am pausing is because there is an election in 2012 and I know that what I say will be quoted as in some way an Obama policy,” he said. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

#1. To: Brian S (#0)

This was the Breitbart bombshell? Pfffft!

Fred Mertz  posted on  2012-03-09   1:25:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)

This was the Breitbart bombshell? Pfffft!

Yep. That is it. Epic fail. Poor Hannity...hardly even discussed it yesterday.

Even Michael Savage asked to Hannity, "This is it, this is all?"

{{{chuckle}}}

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-03-09   11:16:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#2)

Thanks for the confirmation.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2012-03-09   11:20:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Fred Mertz (#3)

Thanks for the confirmation.

I think Breitbart intended to dangle this about right up to the election, never intending for its release.

I can see no other motive for the unwarranted 'hype'.

Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!

Brian S  posted on  2012-03-09   11:27:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Brian S (#0)

I hear the little breitbarts are starting a new site: Big Fail.

Skip Intro  posted on  2012-03-09   11:32:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Mail]  [Sign-in]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Please report web page problems, questions and comments to webmaster@libertysflame.com