Bogus, Race Baiting, Black Panther Story Exposed For What It Is

[George Costanza]

Remember the recent screeching of the Republican Noise Machine about the Obama's administrations alleged dropping of voter intimidation charges against members of the Black Panthers and attempting to twist this false claim into a racial issue?

Media Matters has something to say about that. Listen up:

. . . the ever-evolving, increasingly ridiculous New Black Panther Party "scandal," which revolves around the allegation -- and it's hard to believe that right-wingers actually profess to believe this -- that the Obama Justice Department dropped voter intimidation charges against members of this fringe hate group due to the administration's official policy of not pursuing cases in which the defendant is black and the victim is white. Is there evidence for any of this? No. Does the partisan GOP hack/former DOJ attorney making this allegation have any facts to support it? Not so much. But that's the story they're sticking to, and it has sparked a frenzy of race-baiting more explicit than any we've seen thus far during the Obama administration.

And . . .

Fox News has, of course, been leading the charge, embarking on what Jonathan Chait calls "the most widespread and mainstream right-wing effort to exploit racial fears against Obama." Glenn Beck nonsensically claimed that the New Black Panthers "have ties to the White House" and flat-out accused the administration of tacitly endorsing the "race war" he sees coming down the pike. Perpetually outraged Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, the "straight news" driving force behind the bogus story, has been corrected on the facts more times than should be necessary, but continues to hype the story with wide-eyed indignation.

(I love that characterization of Megyn Kelly - "perpetually outraged." Spot on.) And still more . . .

In some ways, that's to be expected from Fox News. The danger is that, with not much else going on and the right-wing rage machine operating at high speed, the bogus story starts bleeding into the mainstream press. Kelly herself boasted that Fox News "dragged the media kicking and screaming" to the New Black Panther story, and already there have been overly credulous treatments of the non-scandal on CNN and in the pages of The Washington Post.

So here ya go, USMB race baiters - whatcha think of THAT?

 

[Oddball]

Links to sources for those quotes, hackapottamus?

Oh, Media Matters........

 

[EriktheRed]

So here ya go, USMB race baiters - whatcha think of THAT?

They're just gonna dismiss it because the source is MediaMatters.


There is also this, though:

A scholar whom President George W. Bush appointed as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Abigail Thernstrom has a reputation as a tough conservative critic of affirmative action and politically correct positions on race.


But when it comes to the investigation that the Republican-dominated commission is now conducting into the Justice Department’s handling of an alleged incident of voter intimidation involving the New Black Panther Party — a controversy that has consumed conservative media in recent months — Thernstrom has made a dramatic break from her usual allies.


“This doesn’t have to do with the Black Panthers; this has to do with their fantasies about how they could use this issue to topple the [Obama] administration,” said Thernstrom, who said members of the commission voiced their political aims “in the initial discussions” of the Panther case last year.


“My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring Eric Holder down and really damage the president,” Thernstrom said in an interview with POLITICO.

Read more: A conservative dismisses right-wing Black Panther 'fantasies' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

 

[Annie]

Links to sources for those quotes, hackapottamus?

Oh, Media Matters........

and I thought it only me.

 

[EriktheRed]

Links to sources for those quotes, hackapottamus?

Oh, Media Matters........

See? Toldjaso, George.

 

[Oddball]

What do you want when hacks serve up links to hack sites?

I'd expect no less were I to link to someone like frontpagemag.

 

[txlonghorn]

We'll dismiss it because it's from Media Matters? Who, by the way, spends most of their time and energy dismissing anything FOX reports...that's hilariously hypocritical.

But you're right about one thing...I will indeed dismiss it.

For the record, I'm much more upset about the lack of coverage from the mainstream on the King Shabazz debacle. How can that be? Why are they NOT covering that and spent WEEKS on a supposed incident where somebody said that somebody heard somebody say the N word from a Tea Party member during the Obama Care protests? So much for unbiased reporting of racism in America.....

talk about race baiting...just sayin

 

[Stephanie]

you think the lefties-Democrats-Progressives-Commie, the lamestream media and MEDIAMATTERS would just let a story like this drop if say, it was the KKK standing outside polling places in their uniforms and nightsticks.?

this is just a bunch of CRAP to try and EXCUSE this for what it was. they had no friggen place standing there with nightsticks at ANY POLLING PLACE.

very sickening to watch all this EXCUSE making for this. just sickening.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Remember the recent screeching of the Republican Noise Machine about the Obama's administrations alleged dropping of voter intimidation charges against members of the Black Panthers and attempting to twist this false claim into a racial issue?

Media Matters has something to say about that. Listen up:

. . . the ever-evolving, increasingly ridiculous New Black Panther Party "scandal," which revolves around the allegation -- and it's hard to believe that right-wingers actually profess to believe this -- that the Obama Justice Department dropped voter intimidation charges against members of this fringe hate group due to the administration's official policy of not pursuing cases in which the defendant is black and the victim is white. Is there evidence for any of this? No. Does the partisan GOP hack/former DOJ attorney making this allegation have any facts to support it? Not so much. But that's the story they're sticking to, and it has sparked a frenzy of race-baiting more explicit than any we've seen thus far during the Obama administration.

And . . .

Fox News has, of course, been leading the charge, embarking on what Jonathan Chait calls "the most widespread and mainstream right-wing effort to exploit racial fears against Obama." Glenn Beck nonsensically claimed that the New Black Panthers "have ties to the White House" and flat-out accused the administration of tacitly endorsing the "race war" he sees coming down the pike. Perpetually outraged Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, the "straight news" driving force behind the bogus story, has been corrected on the facts more times than should be necessary, but continues to hype the story with wide-eyed indignation.

(I love that characterization of Megyn Kelly - "perpetually outraged." Spot on.) And still more . . .

In some ways, that's to be expected from Fox News. The danger is that, with not much else going on and the right-wing rage machine operating at high speed, the bogus story starts bleeding into the mainstream press. Kelly herself boasted that Fox News "dragged the media kicking and screaming" to the New Black Panther story, and already there have been overly credulous treatments of the non-scandal on CNN and in the pages of The Washington Post.

So here ya go, USMB race baiters - whatcha think of THAT?

MEDIA MATTERS? You use MEDIA MATTERS? hell you might as well have used democratic underground, or the white house site for more BS information.

 

[AllieBaba]

Not only that, see how it's touted as some sort of evidence of something.

It's evidence of nothing. It's an opinion piece with zero meat, and zero new information. Zero.

 

[txlonghorn]

you think the lefties-Democrats-Progressives-Commie, the lamestream media and MEDIAMATTERS would just let a story like this drop if say, it was the KKK standing outside polling places in their uniforms and nightsticks.?

this is just a bunch of CRAP to try and EXCUSE this for what it was. they had no friggen place standing there with nightsticks at ANY POLLING PLACE.

very sickening to watch all this EXCUSE making for this. just sickening.

No need to get sick...take comfort in knowing that the democrat party is acting just as usual and that no extreme shift changes have been made. You shouldn't really start worrying until they start acting different and do things you don't expect. For the most part, they are right on cue...so we can anticipate their moves. It's when they start trying to camouflage their moves to look more toward the center that you really have to watch them.

 

[Stephanie]

The damn Democrat-Progressive-Commie party doesn't need sites like mediamatters.

they have enough SHEEP in their party to spread their PROPAGANDA around.

just look at here, they're making excuses for this racist group. THE BLACK KKK

good grief.

Oh and anyone see where Cnn was threatened by the group run by Van Jones for running the story on the this incident.

yep, this is the PARTY in control of our government today folks

 

[txlonghorn]

I wonder if Media Matters will post something about King Shabazz and his threats being false?

 

[Annie]

I wonder if Media Matters will post something about King Shabazz and his threats being false?

Please, do not hold your breath.

 

[Mini 14]

Attention K-Mart shoppers!

Tin foil on sale in aisle 4, for the next 20 minutes only!

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The damn Democrat-Progressive-Commie party doesn't need sites like mediamatters.

they have enough SHEEP in their party to spread their PROPAGANDA around.

just look at here, they're making excuses for this racist group. THE BLACK KKK

good grief.

Oh and anyone see where Cnn was threatened by the group run by Van Jones for running the story on the this incident.

yep, this is the PARTY in control of our government today folks

Anything like this?

 

[txlonghorn]

I wonder if Media Matters will post something about King Shabazz and his threats being false?

Please, do not hold your breath.

Never do...

 

[EriktheRed]

Hey, here's a source for ya, righties:

The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent - Abigail Thernstrom - National Review Online

 

[Stephanie]

You can post all the links you want. but we have eyes and can see things for just what they were.

you want to make excuses for it, than you are just as lame as the Black Panthers and encouraging this type shit. I don't want to hear you all BITCH when the KKK comes out and does something like this.

 

[Madeline]

First it was that the source was no good. Then it was that the opinion was suspect. Now it's that no matter what, you wanna cling to your outrage.

Just admit it....this is a wet dream you've been having and you dun wanna wake the fuck up.