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On his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs suggested that the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group, constitutes Obama's base. Dobbs quoted criticisms of Obama by the NBPP and then said: "I mean, what is going on here? This president is starting to get, at the very least, friction, if not outright attacks coming from his base."
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During the segment, Dobbs also falsely claimed that "Holder says [the NBPP] can't be prosecuted for intimidating white voters," a reference to a phony scandal relentlessly hyped by Fox News.
In fact, it was the Bush administration, not the Obama administration, that decided not to prosecute the NBPP criminally for an incident in which an NBPP member carried a nightstick outside a Philadelphia polling place. The Bush administration chose to file a civil case in the matter instead.
The Obama Justice Department pursued the civil case against the defendant who carried the nighstick and obtained an injunction against him. Obama later decided to drop the civil case against the other defendants.
Furthermore, conservatives including to the Republican vice chair of the Civil Rights Commission investigating the case have agreed that the attacks against the Justice Department are meritless. ... But such facts would get in the way of Dobbs' race baiting.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205230001
NeverEnuff
(147 posts)I guess that would make the KKK and Warren Jeff's sect of Mormons Romeny's.
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)Why don't they share?
JHB
(37,166 posts)...that the NBPP doesn't have enough members to fill.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)where he gets his mush twice a day along with a horse-sized suppository of Thorazine.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I was struggling to decide whether to buy, sell, or hold technology stocks.
And now that Lou Dobbs covered 6 guys in Philly calling themselves "The New Black Panthers" ... my investment path is clear, I need to buy ammo and a compound in Montana.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Lou Dobbs is a hateful human being.
vanlassie
(5,695 posts)When I am unfortunately exposed to Fox in my relatives' homes. ...We have always been at war with the New Black Panthers.