Barack Obama Was Marching With Civil Rights Icon In Selma, Not With New Black Panthers

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from Media Matters:http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110050021


October 05, 2011

Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart, Sean Hannity, and National Review Online's Andrew McCarthy claimed that, in Sean Hannity's words, then-Senator Barack Obama was "hanging out" with a group of New Black Panther Party members during a 2007 event in Selma, Alabama. The charge was totally false, as it was based on cropped photos and dishonest descriptions.

In reality, the event was the 42nd anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement that ended when the marchers were attacked by law enforcement at Edmund Pettus Bridge.

During the commemoration, Obama was in the company of people like the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who Martin Luther King Jr. once described as "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South." Shuttlesworth died today at the age of 89.

Here's a picture from Reuters of Obama pushing Shuttlesworth in a wheelchair across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the event mentioned by Breitbart, Hannity, and McCarthy:





read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110050021

related:

Civil rights leader Rev. Shuttlesworth dies Wednesday
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-05/fred-shuttlesworth-dies/50667896/1?csp=34news

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1. K & R

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2. K&R

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3. Rec'd. Not that the people spreading this lie have any interest in the truth

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4. word

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5. Not that that would make any difference to the RWers pushing this story

I am not too sure that they appreciate that distinction. For tea partiers, "they" all have to same agenda- to take over and oppress white people.

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6. I'm certain

. . . that's what these rw pundits and shitstirrers want to exploit among their republican followers. All they have to go on is the hatred they manage to gin up around election day. Conversely, our Democratic legislators will be looking to exploit fear of these republican extremists to rally our voters to the polls to defend against their nonsense. It is ever thus.

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7. ReTHUGS LIE

and lie and lie and lie

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9. Dickheads

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10. K&R!