This is really a fairly minor point, but it’s been misreported so many times that it needs to be addressed. You know Breitbart’s big “bombshell” video of Obama introducing a speech by the late Professor Derrick Bell at Harvard Law School in 1990? The one that nobody actually seems to care about but Breitbart’s remaining minions? Well, there’s a little detail that keeps getting screwed up.
That footage included an embrace between Bell and Obama in a portion that was cut out of the PBS “Frontline” documentary called “The Choice 2008.” Some have made the case that that editing was proof of a media campaign to protect then-Democratic presidential nominee Obama and hide any ties to a professor whose theories on race have made him radical to some.
For God’s sake, people, did you even WATCH the PBS video? Obviously not, because if you had, you’d have noticed that Frontline included the hug heard round the world. Here’s a screenshot; it occurs at about 1:55 in the video (which you can see here).
Let’s at least get the basic, readily verifiable facts right while we’re smearing Obama as a whitey-hating socialist, shall we?