Video - Obama at Harvard - 1991 - Protest for Tenure for Minority Professors

mimi · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:55 pm

tweet via ben smith:

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So I think @BuzzFeedAndrew may have just turned up the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.

ETA: Note that the tape breitbart was looking for is not this video. Breitbart was looking for the panel discussion Obama participated in after the Alinsky play.

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At Harvard, Obama Dived Into Diversity Fight

In this video, not previously available online but licensed by BuzzFeed from a Boston television station, the future president speaks at a 1990 campus protest organized to demand tenure for minority and female law professors.

Go see the video. It's just a clip, and Obama is impressive in it. :-bd

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... sity-fight

(also noting that BuzzFeed Politics has been breaking a lot of stuff over the past couple of months. Whodathunk?)

BFB · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:05 pm

mimi wrote:

Go see the video. It's just a clip, and Obama is impressive in it. :-bd

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... sity-fight

Hey ... wait a minute ... where's the TelePrompTer?

ducktape · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:06 pm

Impressive indeed! What a great find.

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:08 pm

BFB wrote:

mimi wrote:

Go see the video. It's just a clip, and Obama is impressive in it. :-bd

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... sity-fight

Hey ... wait a minute ... where's the TelePrompTer?

Damn it, you beat me to it.

Yeah, the tape's obviously been doctored. How could that possibly be an eloquent Obama, with no teleprompter? =))

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9315

mimi wrote:

tweet via ben smith:

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So I think @BuzzFeedAndrew may have just turned up the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.

So these slimeballs think this is bad for Obama?

I suppose it is if you're a racist piece of shit.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:14 pm

Parts of that were broadcast on the PBS special before the election. IIRC, it was only video, not the speech.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:22 pm

I was hoping for Obama's speech at Occidental that has never surfaced. That would be his first major political appearance.

Adelante · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:31 pm

W4, note witness in comments:

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James Minister O'Keefe · Director at Immigration Law Group LLC
Small error -- Obama graduated in 1991. "As President of the Harvard Law Review in the spring of his final year there, 1990" -- which puts this video in the Spring of 1991. As fate would have it, I happened to have been there, standing pretty close to the person holding the camera.

neonzx · **Joined:** Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:27 am **Posts:** 4216

Wait, I thought no one remembers Obama at any university he attended? :lol:

mimi · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:40 pm

Adelante wrote:

W4, note witness in comments:

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James Minister O'Keefe · Director at Immigration Law Group LLC
Small error -- Obama graduated in 1991. "As President of the Harvard Law Review in the spring of his final year there, 1990" -- which puts this video in the Spring of 1991. As fate would have it, I happened to have been there, standing pretty close to the person holding the camera.

They must have seen it as well, as the post and video have been changed to reflect the year 1991. I changed the topic title here as well.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:47 pm

I'm reminded of my HS Forensics class when Mrs. Corley would give us advice as to what to do with our hands. I'm glad Barry got that figured out. 8-)

twinx · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:23 pm

A companion piece to the above video, with some of the same footage, (and a little bit more), a commentary, and interviews with people who don't remember knew Obama at Harvard.

Edit: Love the self deprecating shrug when he hands over to the Professor.

nycpeter · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:50 pm **Posts:** 306

obot 1024 · **Joined:** Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:25 pm **Posts:** 630

mimi wrote:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... sity-fight

(also noting that BuzzFeed Politics has been breaking a lot of stuff over the past couple of months. Whodathunk?)

Ben Smith as editor probably has something t do with it.

BFB · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:30 pm

So Obama speaks up for a guy who speaks up for civil rights. And this is a bad thing.

Will this be how Fox Snooze finally jumps the shark?

bob · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:15 pm

ORYR comments:

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diversity is just another liberal code word for perversity......don't forget it.

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That is one smooth talking young man? Wonder how many social security numbers he had used by then? Of course he need to break the law, swindle others and play the leftist gaming game because our system of capitalism is just so unfair? Our future scammer in chief, how sweet?

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Obama is here referring to "..Black Students Orientation..". Rather than bringing people together, Obama is divisive and polarizing. His goal, even in 1990, was to separate blacks and whites. The goal of Martin Luther King was to bring all Americans together with equality for all. Obama's goal was and is to create deep divisions between races..

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And it's not the only tape. Just listening to Hannity on radio, there are several videos planned to be released of different events. Got to be extremely interesting.

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So this show's Obama's divisiveness? By having a large crowd of all different sorts of people? I'm not sure that one was thought through.

And this is hidden footage? So hidden that people have been able to get their hands on it? Again - not a very thought-through statement...

Winner:

scott wrote:

this is when he was racking up the parking tickets ??

Adelante · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:40 pm

I'm watching this now: PBS FRONTLINE: Dreams of Obama

Very good.

Adelante · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:31 pm

LGF

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Ben Smith of Buzzfeed is peeved at the mini-Breitbarts, and says the video they released was not edited at all:

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So…we scooped Breitbart.com, & thus they’re attacking us. FTR, we pub bed every second of Obama we had, via WGBH breitbart.com/Big-Government…

— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) March 7, 2012

Litlebritdifrnt2 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:38 pm

Breibart has just released the "full" video, and it is basically the same as the Buzzfeed one except it shows POTUS hugging the professor. OMG! A student hugs his Professor! THE END OF THE WORLD! They also call the Professor a "radical".

BenSmith tweeted to the effect "so their video is the same as ours except with a B-roll at front?"

Jill Christie · **Joined:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:18 am **Posts:** 192

They are running a photo showing the "young Obama" in a "demonstration for some leftist cause....yada yada.....just one little glitch...the photo depicts a white haired black senior citizen male.....guy looks seventy something.....shows how stupid they think their readers are, I guess.

Bob Ross · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:15 pm

Litlebritdifrnt2 wrote:

Breibart has just released the "full" video, and it is basically the same as the Buzzfeed one except it shows POTUS hugging the professor. OMG! A student hugs his Professor! THE END OF THE WORLD! They also call the Professor a "radical".

BenSmith tweeted to the effect "so their video is the same as ours except with a B-roll at front?"

OMFGZ Breitbart was killed over a hug!!! lol

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:23 pm

Jill Christie wrote:

They are running a photo showing the "young Obama" in a "demonstration for some leftist cause....yada yada.....just one little glitch...the photo depicts a white haired black senior citizen male.....guy looks seventy something.....shows how stupid they think their readers are, I guess.

Link?

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:27 pm

Adelante wrote:

I'm watching this now: PBS FRONTLINE: Dreams of Obama

Very good.

Yes -- that's the one I remembered, in one of the later segments!

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23521

It's the sekrit Breitbart tapes, which were already on his site, and one of which has been in the public domain since 2008.

It's a horrible thing for conservatives when someone speaks on behalf of civil rights for blacks and women at a a leftist commie university.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:54 pm

Don't we already have a thread on WND? Should this go there?

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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