Welcome to the summer of the New Black Panters (Rev. Wright is on vacation I guess)

[underpants]

If you don't remember this was a group of "New Black Panthers" who showed up at a predominantly black polling place to make sure that there wasn't any voter intimidation as the Republicans are so, sadly, good at.
Long list of GOP activities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression


Manufactured scandal: Right wing's phony allegations against the Justice Department

http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070020


Reality: Adams' accusations don't stand up to the facts
•Adams is a long-time right-wing activist, who is known for filing an ethics complaint against Hugh Rodham that was subsequently dismissed, served as a Bush poll watcher in Florida 2004, and reportedly volunteered for a Republican group that trains lawyers to fight "racially tinged battles over voting rights";
•Adams was hired to the Justice Department in 2005 by Bradley Schlozman, who was found by the Department of Justice Inspector General and Office of
Professional Responsibility to have improperly considered political affiliation when hiring career attorneys -- the former head of the DOJ voting rights section reportedly said that Adams was "exhibit A of the type of people hired by Schlozman";
•Adams has admitted that he does not have first-hand knowledge of the events, conversations, and decisions that he is citing to advance his accusations;
•The Bush administration's Justice Department -- not the Obama administration -- made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008;
•The Obama administration successfully obtained default judgment against Samir Shabazz, a member of the New Black Panther Party carrying a nightstick outside the Philadelphia polling center on Election Day 2008;
•The Bush administration DOJ chose not to pursue similar charges against members of the Minutemen, one of whom allegedly carried a weapon while harassing Hispanic voters in Arizona in 2006;
•No voters have come forward to claim that they were intimidated from voting on account of the New Black Panthers standing outside the polling center in 2008;
•The Republican vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is currently investigating the Justice Department's decision, has called that investigation "very small potatoes" full of "overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges," and said it has not "served the interests of the commission"; she further said that DOJ has given a "plausible argument" for not pursuing additional charges in the case.

Adams is a long-time GOP activist
Kelly: A source "close to the case" said "Christian Adams is a conservative who has made willful misstatements in this interview." After airing a portion of her interview with Adams on the June 30 edition of America Live, Kelly reported the Justice Department's reaction to Adams' allegations and then noted, "Another source close to the case telling one of our producers that Christian Adams is a conservative who has made willful misstatements in this interview."

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Dear goodness... ANOTHER clone from the chub/pastyface/GOP mold. n/t

[Raspberry]

2. Did you see the video?

It's hard to write that off as just some right-wing exaggeration.

"Kill crackers. Kill their babies."

Whether there is an issue or not, it makes quite a sound bite.

[underpants]

4. I saw the video

and yes the one guy is an ass but I also remember the report from election day and it was quite different.

[virgogal]

6. I agree, I found it frightening and hateful. It's a bit more than a sound bite.

[madrchsod]

3. the "new black panthers" are classified as a hate group .....

the remaining members of the black panther party rejects any connection to the original party.

[underpants]

5. Yes I know that too- but this is still a contrived hoax by the Right (Acorn, Climategate, etc.)

As guardian of the true history of the Black Panther Party, the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, which includes former leading members of the Party, denounces this group's exploitation of the Party's name and history. Failing to find its own legitimacy in the black community, this band would graft the Party's name upon itself, which we condemn... hey denigrate the Party's name by promoting concepts absolutely counter to the revolutionary principles on which the Party was founded... The Black Panthers were never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the "white establishment." The Party operated on love for black people, not hatred of white people.

Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation: "There Is No New Black Panther Party" <29>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party

[flvegan]

7. Are they "Panters" or "Pathers" though?

[Scurrilous]

8. LOL

Confusing ain't it?

[underpants]

9. New Black Painters

they will paint anything you want... as long as you want it black

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