Hug Gate- The Anatomy of a Phony Conspiracy
Well, I think it's useful to spend some time on the tremendous "scandal" that Andrew Breitbart was about to release- a piece of film from Obama's college days that Breitbart said would destroy Obama. Let's talk about the truth first. In 1990, Derrick Bell, the first black tenured professor at Harvard University, held a protest. He was angered that Harvard law school had denied tenure to a female black professor. Unsurprisingly, the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, one Barack Obama, was selected to introduce Professor Bell. This demonstration was covered by Boston PBS station WGBH. Here is the entire surviving footage (from WGBH) of Obama's introduction. It is important that you take the one minute and seventeen seconds to watch this, as it shows how absolutely inoffensive Obama's remarks were: That's it! And all in the service of a purported rabid black racist who is actually a Harvard law professor. Oh, wait a minute,...