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Tonight . . . On The Breitbart Follies

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Posted on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 05:54:48 PM EST
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Tonight, Sean Hannity interviews the Keepers of the Breitbart Flame.

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    That Derrick Bell is thought by some (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by caseyOR on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:27:22 PM EST
    to have been a radical would be funny if it wasn't so sadly wrong. What was Bell's radical sin? He dared to insist, demand, that white men were not the only ones who could learn about, think about and teach the law.

    Oh the horror.

    Hannity now: (5.00 / 1) (#17)
    by Addison on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 08:09:47 PM EST
    The big reveal is that Barack Obama...

    ...HUGGED PROFESSOR BELL AFTER HIS INTRODUCTION!

    The weakest of all teas. This is just Jeremiah Wright, Mark II (some Breitbart flak made this clear on Hannity by saying Bell was the Jeremiah Wright of academia). This isn't about diversity, say Breitbart folks, but about radical ideology. Barack Obama hugging Dr. Bell is, in the words of Ben Shapiro, "a clean bust".

    I guess I'm mostly surprised that this tactic, which didn't work last time in more concentrated and volatile form, is being pushed again as a highly diluted retread instead of some "improved" formula.

    Re Derrick Bell: (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by oculus on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 08:59:42 PM EST
    After graduation, and after a recommendation from then United States Associate Attorney General William Rogers, Bell took a position with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. He was the only Black person working for the Justice Department at the time. In 1959, the government asked him to resign his membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) because it was thought that his objectivity, and that of the department, might be compromised or called into question. Bell quit rather than giving up his NAACP membership.
     [Excerpt from Wiki.]

    He was also a military veteran, so I've read (none / 0) (#30)
    by magster on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:31:43 PM EST


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    Yes (none / 0) (#31)
    by Zorba on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:43:55 PM EST
    While attending Duquesne University, Bell joined the ROTC, and following his graduation, went to Korea as part of the U.S. Air Force

    Link

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    I don't see (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by lilburro on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:22:53 AM EST
    how this is scaring anyone who isn't already terrified.  I enjoyed the video, esp. Obama asking how one man has accomplished so much...not knowing what he himself would accomplish.  I can just hear my mother (my barometer for halfway normal white people) saying "what a remarkable young man" which honestly is all I can get out of this.  Rightful material for higher education videos.  You're wearing darkly paranoid lenses to get more out of it, I think.  And you've really got to be committed to the cause to follow the leaps of logic that somehow make Obama look bad.  People who hate "elitism" but are determined to Google and troll "Derrick Bell" are mostly lost votes, period.

    I'm proud (5.00 / 4) (#28)
    by TeresaInSnow2 on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:11:57 PM EST
    ...of Mr. Bell.  He stood up for women of color in a way that few men do...sacrificed his employment at Harvard for it?  Wow! My hero.  Thanks for pointing him out, Sean?  That wasn't what you intended, sir?  OOPS for you!

    So this is what I'm to watch instead (none / 0) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 05:57:25 PM EST
    of The Middle?  It feels like penance.

    Did you click the links? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 05:58:39 PM EST


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    I did (none / 0) (#3)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:03:32 PM EST
    I don't get it :)  Is Shawn Hannity going to present a video of child looking Barack Obama?

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    And I thought that Obama (none / 0) (#4)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:05:35 PM EST
    Only became affiliated with Jeremiah Wright via going to his church after college?

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    What? (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:07:22 PM EST
    Derrick Bell is not Jeremiah Wright.

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    The second link too? (none / 0) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:06:56 PM EST


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    Yes....I got that there was nothing (none / 0) (#7)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:12:11 PM EST
    Grand to be revealed.  And now I know much more.  There is a dude named Derrick Bell in the video, who isn't Jeremiah Wright who I'm pretty sure I can identify on sight easily because I've seen a lot of him.

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    For lawyers (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:18:24 PM EST
    Derrick Bell is a familiar name having not much at all to do with Jeremiah Wright.

    He was a major mover in Critical Legal Studies.

    That does not translate so well on Fox I guess so JEREMIAH WRIGHT!!!!

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    I went and read up about him (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:39:22 PM EST
    Coming out of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, had some strange notion that the legal elite had something to do with maintaining the positions of the rest of the elite :)  

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    Critical Race Theory not Critical Legal Studies... (none / 0) (#9)
    by Addison on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:27:13 PM EST
    ...right?

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    Both actually (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:28:20 PM EST
    I think.

    It's been a while since law school.

    The Crits we called them.

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    Pretty hard to separate, I think (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 07:02:21 PM EST
    CLS leads, among other things, pretty inevitably to CRS.

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    My favorite part of Prof Bell's story (5.00 / 2) (#16)
    by Peter G on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 08:04:33 PM EST
    is that he resigned his tenure at Harvard Law (where I think he was the first tenured faculty member who was African American), IIRC, to protest Harvard's failure to grant tenure to any women of color. Went to NYU.  He died just about a year ago at age 80. For anyone to think it's a scandal to discover that a Harvard Law student supported him is totally ridiculous.

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    Of course it's ridiculous, but (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 11:00:41 PM EST
    when has that ever stopped Breitbartians?

    Still, this strikes me as a monumental yawn.  It will send a thrill up the legs of the committed Obama haters, but I find it hard to believe a single solitary "soccer mom" type independent is going to lose any sleep over it.


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    Yes, it is a real shocker (none / 0) (#23)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 06:28:45 AM EST
    That a President of the United States would have had out front and unafraid leadership skills even in college and fought for basic civil rights.

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    Yeah... (none / 0) (#13)
    by Addison on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:32:30 PM EST
    ...I'm not a lawyer or law school alum, but I'd always heard Bell connected with CRS when the topic came up. So I wasn't sure. Apparently CRS is viewed as an offshoot of CLS, so the answer is "both".

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    Or because they're related, both? (none / 0) (#12)
    by Addison on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 06:30:35 PM EST
    ...is CRS viewed synonymously with CLS?

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    Makes me yawn, too (none / 0) (#24)
    by jimakaPPJ on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 09:08:09 AM EST
    but the claim is not hard to understand.

    If we did, here's what we'd be opening our hearts and minds to. This is a close associate of Jeremiah Wright, a man who was quoted by Jeremiah Wright regularly. This is a man who posited that the civil rights movement was too moderate because it accepted the status quo, and believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed in radical fashion.

    So Wright was influenced by Bell and then Wright influenced Obama.

    Given some of Obama's actions I can see why some people might buy the premise.

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    what "actions" specifically (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by jondee on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 11:44:11 AM EST
    can be traced to your imagined scarey-black-radicals?

    The whole gittin' uppity thing, or do have some more specific things in mind?

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    duh (5.00 / 2) (#27)
    by CST on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 11:58:19 AM EST
    he "believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed"  radically no less.

    I don't know why any black person in the 50s and 60s would feel that way.  Didn't they realize it just needed to be tweaked a little?  Geez.

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    it's that word "radical": (5.00 / 1) (#29)
    by jondee on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:15:25 PM EST
    it always means H Rap Brown in a dashiki yelling kill the pigs and lurking in the bushes for the purposes of despoiling the pure, white, magnolia blossom of American womanhood..

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    History must be rewritten to identify the radicals (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by Addison on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 01:53:39 PM EST
    "believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed"  radically no less.

    Keeping in mind that "transformation" in this context means a less-than-literal 18th century interpretation of the Constitution combined with a sense that the legal/court system is profounded biased along race lines, LBJ and Ike believed that much! Abe Lincoln, too. Pretty much everyone who ever bothered to get into politics. I hope those guys never hugged anyone of note, or we might have a scandal on our hands.

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    Being Black while President (none / 0) (#32)
    by Socraticsilence on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 01:07:32 PM EST
    If not for these radicals Obama would look more like Mitt Romney.

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    You making things up again. (none / 0) (#38)
    by jimakaPPJ on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 06:08:41 PM EST


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    Uh-oh... (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by Addison on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 02:02:18 PM EST
    This is a man who posited that the civil rights movement was too moderate because it accepted the status quo, and believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed in radical fashion.

    Yeah, you can't be seen in the company of -- let alone admiring and hosting -- of someone like that...

    But, what's this? What about W's legacy?! OH NOEZ!

    It is tarnished forever. Someone inform Ben Shapiro, Dana Loesch, Sean Hannity, and Matt Drudge. They deserve to be told first.

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    "Wright was influenced by Bell" (5.00 / 2) (#36)
    by Peter G on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 04:18:19 PM EST
    An entire generation of Harvard and NYU law students was "influenced by Bell" ... I mean really, so what?

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    Yes, that's the issue in some people's (none / 0) (#37)
    by jimakaPPJ on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 06:07:20 PM EST
    mind. And that's what the video is about.

    You may not buy it and I may not buy it, but some did and some do.

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    Nobody other than (none / 0) (#39)
    by gyrfalcon on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 07:06:28 PM EST
    already committed Obama haters who think he's a Kenyan Muslim socialist.

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    "Some people buy it" - heh (none / 0) (#40)
    by Yman on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 10:09:42 PM EST
    "Some people" buy anything.  Some people think the earth is flat.  Some people don't believe in evolution.  Some people are global warming deniers.

    Surely you must be trying to argue something beyond the obvious.

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    The argument, such as it is... (none / 0) (#41)
    by Addison on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 10:33:09 PM EST
    He clearly wants it to be an issue, he wants the president to be tarnished, and this is the best he can muster given the farcical nature of the "bombshell". It's a step below "just asking questions" -- other's "buy it". Can't even take personal responsibility for trying to puff it up into a a legitimate issue!

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    Exactly (none / 0) (#43)
    by Yman on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 06:24:39 AM EST
    He even included the obligatory (non)denial after attempting to legitimize the loons:

    So Wright was influenced by Bell and then Wright influenced Obama.  Given some of Obama's actions I can see why some people might buy the premise ...

    You may not buy it and I may not buy it, but some did and some do.

    If "some people bought" the idea that Obama was literally the spawn of Satan, "some people" would defend them by "just asking the question" or saying they "understand why they would believe it".

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    it's that whole secular education thing.. (none / 0) (#46)
    by jondee on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 11:45:12 AM EST
    it always means that theres some 'radical' non-scripturally-based knowledge looming on the horizen..


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    Maybe this does make sense. (none / 0) (#42)
    by observed on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 01:07:38 AM EST
    Obama HAS overturned the Constitution with his policy on targeted assassinations of US citizens.
    Is there anything in Bell's writings which presages such an authoritarian stance?

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    Heh - no, no (none / 0) (#44)
    by Yman on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 06:26:11 AM EST
    Not the stuff they like.

    ... just all that left-wing, socialist, secret-Muslim stuff.

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    So... (none / 0) (#19)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Wed Mar 07, 2012 at 09:20:19 PM EST
    still no "Whitey" tape, huh?  Just black people being labeled radicals because of the color of their skin?  

    Man, it would really be a shame if Ben and Dana had to get real jobs.  

    Thankfully my mental association (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by ruffian on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 11:52:34 AM EST
    with the word 'whitey' will now jump right to the interview Stephen Colbert did with Audra McDonald  the other night. So funny. Glad to replace 'whitey tapes' in my brain.

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    And here are Audra McDonald and Colbert (5.00 / 1) (#35)
    by caseyOR on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 03:45:23 PM EST
    singing Summertime from Porgy and Bess. Watch the interview linked by ruffian, then watch the singing.

    I love Audra McDonald. Such an amazing voice. Colbert's voice? Well, Stephen is a very funny guy.

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    ha - yes. Audra is amazing. Stephen (none / 0) (#47)
    by ruffian on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 03:05:58 PM EST
    should stick to his range as a singer....

    But boy, talk about two very charming people!

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    AHHHHHH! (none / 0) (#22)
    by Socraticsilence on Thu Mar 08, 2012 at 12:44:57 AM EST
    Black People!!! So scary! Newsflash basically any politically active African-American born before say 1960 is going to have said some things the GOP finds terrifying what with living under apartheid despite growing up in the greatest country evar1!!!!11!!!

    Obviously, they've only revealed the tip of the (none / 0) (#45)
    by esmense on Fri Mar 09, 2012 at 11:37:49 AM EST
    iceberg. The next step is to identify all those white radicals in the audience and reveal the elite institutions they've inflitrated. This is MUCH bigger than you may think!

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