"Black Panthergate"

[@meric@nwom@n]

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Lawyers weigh in please.

[Gob]

King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz

I bet their real names were "Brian Dongle" and "Albert Runcorn", or something equally mundane..

[Lord Jim]

I've been reading about this...

Looks like something for the new Republican Congress to investigate next winter when they take over and acquire subpoena power....

[tyro]

More interestingly, can the president intercede in the courts as is being said here?

Or is this another example of the president getting the blame for actions taken in departments he isn’t supposed to have any dealings in?




If the prime minister was ever seen as to try and influence the courts, there would be an outcry.

[loCAtek]

It's racism Tea-Baggery; ONE MAN intimidated himself by fearing the presence of black men;

How a weak but fraught voter-intimidation case made the big time.


...nothing to see here folks, move along.

[Sue U]

As I said at the time of the initial incident, and point out EVERY TIME this bullshit is trotted out:

Hahahahahahahahaha! Faux News!

"We can't find anyone who's actually been intimidated by anything but there are BLACK PEOPLE AT THE POLLING PLACE! AND ONE OF THEM'S A POLL WATCHER!"

Too funny!!!


Edited to correct spelling 'cause I was laughing too hard to type straight.

One black guy with a billy club.

You really are clueless.

ETA: did you ACTUALLY view the video clip?

Yes, I watched the video clip. That's why I could see this was a manufactured "incident" for the benefit of Faux News.

Sue, you really made yourself look foolish on this one....

*Ahem ... *:

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But police and an investigator from the district attorney's office went to inquire and found no evidence of intimidation, according to spokespeople for both offices.

Lovida H. Coleman Jr., a Republican attorney working with the McCain campaign, said she uncovered no evidence of voters being denied their right to vote, although she thought the Panthers should not have been allowed access to voters.

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The initial allegation came from a University student, who had been serving as a poll watcher.

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The police made at least one more visit to the polling place on Fairmount Tuesday, this time to ask FoxNews to leave for getting too close to the polling place.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/break ... _stir.html

Let's see, no one was denied access to the polling place (including the GOP operative featured on the video, even though he was not a poll watcher or voter in that district), there was no evidence of any actual voter intimidation, no one was arrested for anything, and police had to ask the Fox "News" crew to leave because they were becoming a problem. In short, some college kid sent to be a GOP poll watcher in the Richard Allen Homes project in North Philly got freaked by a guy in a Panthers beret and called the cops. (BTW, if you've never been to the Richard Allen Homes, until recently it was fairly comparable to the "Towers" housing project featured in the HBO series "The Wire." The city has been demolishing it piece by piece and replacing it with new semi-detached style units.)

And I look foolish?

Lemme tell ya, if you out-of-towners want to see a black man with a stick in Philly, better to pick Ryan Howard or Jimmy Rollins.

At worst in this case there was some posturing assholery by some dude claiming to be a "New Black Panther" and total douchebaggery by some jerkoff suburban Republican college kid looking to stir up trouble at a polling station in the projects.

This is a total non-story in Philadelphia and everywhere else in the world EXCEPT for the racist division of the wingnut blogosphere. It is notable that this whole "controversy" was generated by Andrew Breitbart and Fox News, who have been clearly shown to be unspeakable slithering media vermin intent on manufacturing and inflaming "racial" issues.

ETA:

Oh, and from the article linked in the OP:

It was perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter intimidation ever.

Tell that to Medgar Evers, Herbert Lee and the Mississippi Freedom Democrats.

What an asshole.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Sorry Sue, this is the first I had heard of it. Didn't see the other thread.

[rubato]

Amazing how the application of facts has no effect on the continual circulation of this sort of crap in the RW blogosphere or the hysterical shrieking with which it is repeated.


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