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I don’t know which scares me more, the true winger reaction or the possibility of a writer at Daily Dish musing about National Review’s thoughtful take on the issue:

Word has hit the net that the New US Civil Rights Commission has met, sans right wing cultural activists from the Bush Administration, and the reconstituted bipartisan Commission will not Print the Super Scary Black Panther investigation report.

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  1. 1.

    General Stuck

    it’s all part of Obama’s neo nazi/marxist plan to taint our bodily fluids with collectivism and replace hamburgers with fried chicken as our national fast food.

  2. 2.

    Kryptik

    What this obviously means is that Obama threatened the true Americans on the panel with cement shoes to protect his racist Black Panther buddies, and we should be expecting the revolution soon.

  7. 7.

    Chris Wolf

    The report is being delayed because the Commission wants it to include actual facts. It will be issued at a later date.

  8. 8.

    Mark S.

    The commission had been stacked with conservatives during the George W. Bush administration after two Republicans (one on the commission and one who would be appointed seven months later) switched their affiliation to independent to allow for two additional Republicans to be appointed, bypassing a rule which allowed for only four members of a party at any given time.

    Really? I admit I haven’t been following this much, but shit, that’s pretty damn sleazy. I’m sure Broder has written extensively on this; I’ll just hunt through the WaPo archives and I’m sure a bunch of stuff will turn up.

  10. 10.

    Cat Lady

    A writer at Daily Dish. Heh.

    Can you let me know when wingtards don’t whine about something Obama does or doesn’t do? This has all gone way beyond stupid and old. kthx.

  11. 11.

    Zifnab25

    Just thinking about the scary black panthers makes my liberties in danger! What ever shall we do?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    @Mark S.:

    I’m sure Broder has written extensively on this

    If he did, I’m sure it’s to praise his centrism for appointing independents to the commission instead of just partisan Republicans and Democrats.

  14. 14.

    General Stuck

    @Zifnab25:

    Just thinking about the scary black panthers makes my liberties in danger! What ever shall we do?

    Hop in the wingnut wayback machine to 1950, or 1850, depending on the prevailing winds of time.

  15. 15.

    Svensker

    Cue the whining

    Whining? Won’t it be more like full on screeching clothes-rending and frothing?

  16. 16.

    JGabriel

    DougJ(R):

    I don’t know which scares me more, the true winger reaction …

    I don’t think there will be much winger reaction. They’ll just ignore the story and move on, so as to downplay the revelation that the GOP was trying to stage-manage the whole thing from the start:

    In the extended version of the footage, posted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this month, a police officer tells Morse to back off. That’s when the commotion begins.
    __
    The video shows someone off-screen to Morse’s left, telling the officer “I got him, I got him.” A man who appears to be Chris Hill, a Republican poll watcher who was accused of intimidating voters at the polls by another woman at the location, says “Put it down. You’ve got enough.”
    __
    […]
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    Two Democratic commissioners who have dissented from the investigation pointed out the additional footage in their reply and note that while the Justice Department handed over a full copy of the video, the Commission didn’t see fit to post it online until this month, far after the report had been finished.
    __
    The video shows that the white Republican poll watchers who showed up to the majority African-American precinct knew exactly what kind of media sensation they had on their hands.
    __
    “We’re on the same team,” says another Republican poll watcher off screen.
    __
    “You’re fucking up the story. Don’t fuck up the story,” one unidentified poll watcher tells Morse.
    __
    Soon an individual seems to grab Morse’s arm or his camera — the screen moves erratically. “I’m a fucking professional videographer,” Morse tells the person trying to stop him from filming. “I was paid… to come from L.A. today.”

    .

  18. 18.

    Midnight Marauder

    I am really, really going to enjoy the Republican/conservative freakout over this one.

    Really.

    “I sat down and have been briefed on this case, and I can tell you that this case is the clear cut open and shut case of voter intimidation in the history of the United States of America. That is no stretch, there’s nothing that even comes close, and the investigators will tell you that if they have a candid moment.” — Rep. Steve King

  20. 20.

    Elia

    @Pooh: Ugh. I don’t even understand where he is on fiscal policy anymore. He spends his entire career cheer-leading Reagan, Thatcher and — during the worst of his spending initiatives — Bush II, then suddenly he’s always been an old fashioned Eisenhower Republican who wants across the board cuts and (he implies, by supporting Dodd-Frank, but without ever saying so explicitly) regulation of the financial sector? What?

  21. 21.

    JGabriel

    @dmsilev: What I find particularly damning in that video is when the GOP lawyers start telling the guy to stop shooting.

    Now, if you’re a GOP operative with a couple of scary black men on tape outside a voting center, why would you want to stop taping? After all, they might do something stupid and violent that you would want to capture on tape … Unless you’ve staged it yourself and you’re afraid that might get revealed.

    .

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mark S.:

    Dishonesty seems to be a required Republican trait nowadays.

    I blame Nixon and Reagan for setting the example, decades ago.

  24. 24.

    Elia

    All right last one because I know a lot of you hate talking about Sully:

    It’s not so much that I’m bothered because I think he’s wrong about our current situation and what to do about it (though I do); it’s more that, for all the talk he’s had over the past 5 or so years about the modern conservative movement being perniciously opposed to reality, etc. etc. this entire crusade over slashing entitlements has NO connection to the fucking facts on the ground! It’s pure principle! What the fuck is the difference between his position and that of Paul Ryan other than the fact that Sully has the luxury of not running for reelection?

    ETA: lol @ signposts basically writing the above…2 years ago. Shame on me, I guess.

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Elia:

    It’s pure principle!

    The principle of course is that “proles need to starve so that I can properly enjoy my steak at Ruth’s.”

  26. 26.

    JGabriel

    @Elia:

    What the fuck is the difference between his position and that of Paul Ryan other than the fact that Sully has the luxury of not running for reelection?

    Sully says it with a plummy English accent, wheras Ryan looks and sounds like a wingnut Devo reject.

    .

  27. 27.

    Elia

    @JGabriel: Yeah, I didn’t squeeze it in there, but I also think there’s a strong class bias going on w/r/t his revulsion at the right wing from about 2004-on. The enduring fact about the dude is that it’s always really just about Andrew Sullivan. First, the right-wing made him look bad by becoming even more defined by Southern populism than it was before; now it’s Obama who is making him look like he doesn’t deserve his Serious Person badge.

  28. 28.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If you look at Sullivan as a sort of Brit Orthogonian (hat tip Rick Perlstein), but understand that he came to America because it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to break into the Franklins, which he desperately wanted to do, for one reason, and one reason only.

    And it wasn’t his homosexuality.

    It’s his ethnicity, which simply won’t fly in Brit Franklin circles.

  30. 30.

    Tja

    It’s like that trial scene from Blackadder IV – you know:

    “George: Oh, right, yes, uhhhh, oh…..Uh, gentlemen, you
    have heard all the evidence presented here today,
    but in the end it is up to the conscience of your
    hearts to decide, and I firmly belive, that like
    me, you will conclude that Captain Blackadder is in
    fact, totally and utterly, GUILTY.

    …..of nothing more than trying to do his duty
    under difficult circumstances.”

  31. 31.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    I can tell you that this case is the clear cut open and shut case of voter intimidation in the history of the United States of America*.

    *Some restrictions apply. History of the United States of America (TM) does not include the history of non-whites, non-Christians, non-straights, non-males and we’re working on non-property owners. Mentioning systematic voter intimidation/disenfranchisement practices directed against non-whites and other non-people will prove you are a racist/some other kind of nasty bigot.

  33. 33.

    Steve

    If you check the fine print, it’s not that they’ve decided not to print the report, it’s that they’ve delayed printing the report until the Democratic dissenter can get reappointed to the commission and have his dissenting opinion published as well. So on that level this is non-news.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    @Steve:

    So on that level this is non-news.

    When has “it’s not really news” ever blocked the Right Wing Noise Machine? Their whole function is to blow non-news out of proportion. SSDD.

  36. 36.

    El Cid

    Clearly Republican USCRC vice-chair, American Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar and former Manhattan “Institute” scholar Abigail Thernstrom voted to delay the report for 30 days until a Democratic member was re-appointed because she is merely a tool of ACORN.

    If the report is issued in 30 days versus right now, it will allow time for, what? Is there something about the Ides of march in this?

    By the way, I don’t suppose that anyone might be curious as to the view of the actual New Black Panther “Party” on this matter. Because, why would you?

    Since Charges were correctly dropped in May, 2009 against the New Black Panther Party and NBPP Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz by the United States Justice Department, there has been continuous unjustified harassment and complaining from Republicans and Right Wing circles, involving the [so-]called voter intimidation lawsuit.
    __
    What these complainers against Attorney General Eric Holder also consistently fail to mention is that this member, who we believe made a honest error, but still deviated from organizational policy on that day, was actually suspended from the New Black Panther Party until January 2010 as a result of this mishap. The New Black Panther Party made it clear then and now we don’t support voter intimidation…
    __
    …These Tea Party Republicans are using any frivolous matter to undermine Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama. For the record, the New Black Panther Party has never had any political connections to the Obama Administration.

    That last bit? Yeah. This is the country which spent something like 6 weeks covering whether or not Barack Obama was blowing up buildings with the Weather Underground because he sat on a Chicago nonprofit board when Bill Ayers was nominated by the mayor of Chicago to that same Annenberg-funded education reform effort in 1995.

    Oh, I forgot (when I Googled to look up the dates) that it was George Stephanopoulos who promoted this we-never-landed-on-the-moon lunacy on the national stage by asking about it in the debate he moderated, after which it became an issue pressed by the McCain campaign. And this was based on the bullshit hype by Christopher Hitchens’ more constantly right wing brother Peter in the Daily Mail.

    There’s your jerkwad coward press hack excuse — ‘hey, it was out there, we need to bring it up’. Guess Obama was lucky that the UK right wing press hadn’t charged him with spreading HIV around Chicago because there were a number of cases in the area where he did his stint as a (Sarah Palin screech still audible to me) community organizer.

    What a pathetic excuse we have for news media.

    Thankfully for the NBPP, the attention brought by the right wing TeaTard attack on this astoundingly over-hyped issue about this one guy has brought them solidarity support from all sorts of well-known black nationalist leaders and groups (Farrakhan, African Peoples Soshullist Party, and other weirdo sorts).

    Of course, neither the NBPP nor the TeaTard Revolutionary Front care whether the NBPP has anything to do with the Black Panthers, as the NBPP can simply use the name and expect almost none who might follow them to know about any differences, and for the white right it’s good enough to have a group which sounds like former black radicals.

  38. 38.

    GregB

    You mean the rightwingers weren’t jumping to the defense of the New Black Panther’s Second Amendment rights?

  39. 39.

    El Cid

    @GregB: I was going to suggest that the NBPP hold protests in support of 2nd Amendment Rights and make sure to open carry weapons with every one of them complying with any law on the matter.

    That would be fun.

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