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World Nut Daily had a piece referencing Michael Savage who was questioning whether Andrew Breitbart was assassinated. What Savage posits or wonders is whether Breitbart was assassinated because of the “secret” Obama videos.  The whole video in question is available at PBS–not just the video on Breitbart and Hannity that has the “scary black man parts” edited out.

PBS has a page called The Story Behind the Obama Law School Video Speech with an attached video. In 1990 (91?), the Harvard Law School had over a 100 tenured professors.  Of those tenured professors, 5 were black and 3 were women. Professor Derrick Bell, the first tenured black professor at Harvard, thought that it was unjust that there were not any minority women tenured as professors at Harvard. As a protest against what he saw as an unjust system, he resigned and gave up his tenure and $100k+ job.  Some students at Harvard organized a rally on behalf of Professor Bell, and that is where the video was shot.

I watched the whole video. Yawn! It’s pretty boring. Obama gives an introductory speech and hugs the law professor that welcomed him to Harvard.  Evidently it is some “radical” plot.

A blog entry by a friend of mine has a link to an article by some guy who went to school after Obama and never knew him. The article is in National Review and of course has snide little attempts of character assassination.  The PBS story has video of people that actually knew Obama at the time. One of those people is Brad Berenson who has bonafide conservative credentials in that he worked in the Bush administration.  About Obama, Berenson says: Obama took 10 times more grief from people on the left side of the aisle as he took from people on the right side of the aisle. Berenson, who actually knew and worked with Obama, does not paint him as some radical. But, according to the writer for NPR who didn’t know Obama, Obama was. I am sure all intelligent right wing readers will know to choose to accept the version of the man who never knew Obama over the version of the man who worked with him.

Evidently Sean Hannity devoted a show this past week to the video and all the radical elements in it. His show really must have been like when Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone’s secret vault in Chicago. They hyped the show for weeks beforehand, they tried to build up the suspense for the whole hour, and then when it was finally opened, the vault was empty. Hannity must have a brain more plagued by syphilitic cysts than Al Capone if he thinks the video showed anything more than two men hugging.

For some good laugh’s, Jon Stewart covers Sean Hannity’s coverage of the Obama tape and has his own revealing coverage about “the real” Sean Hannity. According to Hannity’s logic, you are who you like or associate with. So, if Hannity likes and associates with a known perjuror (Oliver North), likes and associates with a convicted Watergate burglar (G. Gordon Liddy), likes and associates with a man who stomped another man to death (Don King), then by his own logic, Sean Hannity is a criminal.

Driving home Thursday night, I was listening to the local traffic station/conservative propaganda station KRMG. The show was America Now hosted by Andy Dean, and Andy’s guest was former Oklahoma congressman J. C. Watts. Watts is now a lobbyist in D.C. and is also trying to get Newt Gingrich the Republican nomination for president.

For a long time they talked about Newt, and then the subject turned to Obama.  At one point, Watts said that “this is a Bonhoeffer kind of moment.” So, is he comparing Obama to Hitler? Does he think we ought to conspire to assassinate Obama? Besides his writing, what Bonhoeffer is famous for is conspiring to assassinate Hitler and then being arrested and executed for it. Many people admire Bonhoeffer and his stand against Nazism, but to imply that this is a Bonhoeffer moment is just a little too over the top.

Clip (at 32:44 in): http://www.americanowradio.com/pages/media/listenlive.html?uri=channels/465104/1600516

I was driving around during my lunch hour yesterday and had the traffic station on–which unfortunately is also the right wing propaganda station.  Rush Limbaugh was on during lunch.  He seems to be endorsing Gingrich and kept going on and on about how the Democrats and left-wingers fear Gingrich being nominated because Democrats “know that conservatives win elections.”  He was really going on and on belaboring the point.  Maybe he was just trying to fill airspace…

Well, I was watching Rachel Maddow the previous week and she was just smirking that Gingrich might be the Republican nominee.  She was really giddy and hopeful about it.  She seemed to be really hoping that Gingrich would be the candidate because that meant Obama would be re-elected.  She seemed to think that Gingrich was far too right wing to be elected in a general election for president.  Watching her smirk, I was thinking to myself, “Be careful what you wish for–it might not be that easy.”

See this video at about the 4 minute part:

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/45531508

Does Rachel look like she’s fearing Gingrich running?

A woman came out Monday alleging a 13 year affair with Herman Cain.

White predicted that her decision to go public with her side of the story will likely mark the end of her relationship with Cain. Nevertheless, she said, “We have a friendship now.”

She thinks Cain and she will still have a friendship?  I sort of doubt it.

On other fronts, Romney and Gingrich seem to be the front runners at this moment in time for the Republican nomination.  If Romney gets the nomination, I don’t see the tea baggers being very excited about him.  If Newt gets nominated, I have to say, “Does character only matter when it involves your opponents?”

During the debates and during his stump speeches, Rick Perry assures that he will balance the U.S. budget because he has done it in Texas.  Really?

George Bush balanced the budget in Texas.  However, once he took the office of president, he took the country from a budget surpluses to budget deficits.  Perry also doesn’t mention that he took $6 billion in federal stimulus money–money that he was against–to balance the budget.