Why the silence from The Post on Black Panther Party story?

[teapartysamurai]

This comes from the protesting too much category.

Read it all: Andrew Alexander - Why the silence from The Post on Black Panther Party story?

It's pretty OBVIOUS why they weren't reporting it. The same reason they tried to spike the Monica Lewinsky story. Because it's bad new for their president and they have their lips permanently attached to his butt.

They can make up all kinds of rationalizations and excuses as to why it took them so long to get on this story, but it still boils down to their own bias.

Do you believe for a minute it would have taken them this long from the Bush admin?

Phonies!

 

[hortysir]

Do we need to open a "Black Panther" section?

 

[teapartysamurai]

Do we need to open a "Black Panther" section?

Why, are liberals that desperate to keep that story out of politics?

 

[JScott]

This comes from the protesting too much category.

Read it all: Andrew Alexander - Why the silence from The Post on Black Panther Party story?

It's pretty OBVIOUS why they weren't reporting it. The same reason they tried to spike the Monica Lewinsky story. Because it's bad new for their president and they have their lips permanently attached to his butt.

They can make up all kinds of rationalizations and excuses as to why it took them so long to get on this story, but it still boils down to their own bias.

Do you believe for a minute it would have taken them this long from the Bush admin?

Phonies!

Was there a prevalence of black panthers holding up voting nation wide?


The New Black Panther Case:
A Conservative Dissent

Forget about the New Black Panther Party case; it is very small potatoes. Perhaps the Panthers should have been prosecuted under section 11 (b) of the Voting Rights Act for their actions of November 2008, but the legal standards that must be met to prove voter intimidation — the charge — are very high.

In the 45 years since the act was passed, there have been a total of three successful prosecutions. The incident involved only two Panthers at a single majority-black precinct in Philadelphia. So far — after months of hearings, testimony and investigation — no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots. Too much overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges has been devoted to this case.
The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent - Abigail Thernstrom - National Review Online

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Do we need to open a "Black Panther" section?

Why, are liberals that desperate to keep that story out of politics?

Gee.....I guess it's that overwhelming Republican-influence.

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"A Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights denounced allegations by some pundits that the Justice Department is refusing to pursue a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because of race, and suggested that the charges being made by right-wing figures are politically motivated.

Conservative broadcasters and websites have claimed that the Obama administration is dropping prosecution of New Black Panther activists who were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day 2008, making intimidating remarks; one man was carrying a nightstick.

Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, the commission's vice chair, Abigail Thernstrom, said, "We have no direct evidence that [the NBP activists] actually intimidated anybody, stopped them from voting."

Thernstrom went further: In a recent interview with Politico, she said that conservative members of the commission had a political aim - to use the New Black Panthers issue to "topple" the Obama administration.

"My fellow conservatives on the commission had this wild notion they could bring [Attorney General] Eric Holder down and really damage the president," Thernstrom told Politico."

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"Fox News and other conservative media outlets have turned the Justice Department’s handling of the case into the subject of the sort of intense, contained interest that’s becoming increasingly common in an age of polarized and ideological media.

The liberal group Media Matters has counted 95 segments on Fox at least partially devoted to the story, much of it driven by “America Live” host Megyn Kelly, who focused on it during 45 segments, including one that discussed whether Fox’s own coverage had been racist.

Fox News did not return calls asking for comment on its coverage."

 

[MiskyKnight]

Sorry, but those men aren't associated with the real Black Panthers.