US: Breitbart's much ado about nothing?

Charleston Daily Mail

Attacking Obama as a radical doesn’t work
March 10, 2012 by Don Surber

Before his death, Andrew Breitbart announced at CPAC that he had these videos of Barack Obama from college that would reveal what a anti-American radical the 44th president was. This past week, the first of these tapes debuted on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show — Hannity. The review from John Hinderacker was headlined, “Was Breitbart’s video a dud?”

If you have to ask, you know the answer.

And we do.

Hinderacker’s reaction was that from the buildup, he expected more. The video showed Barack Obama giving a speech and later embracing Derrick Bell, a Harvard Law professor.

Who?

From John Hinderacker:

I actually knew Derrick Bell. He was my criminal law professor as a first-year law student. This was one of his first years at Harvard. He was obviously more liberal than most professors there – the law school was not a left-wing institution at that time – and I think it was some years later when he came out as, in my characterization, a racist neo-Marxist. He was a nice guy and a reasonably good teacher. His ideas, as he later developed them, were reprehensible. But one of the sad and twisted aspects of our public culture is that bright young African-Americans like Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson are expected to align themselves with such poisonous creeds. Our establishment rewards them for doing so, and tends to punish them if they don’t. (Think Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas.)

So, will many voters consider the fact that Obama delivered a warm endorsement of Derrick Bell a bombshell? I doubt it.

One truism from the Internet is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of crazy. Unfortunately, many conservatives are driving themselves crazy over Barack Obama’s past. This did not work in 2008 and it will not in 2012.

In 2008, there was more and better ammo against Barack Obama. If his association with the Weather Underground and Jeremiah Wright could not sell him as a radical how can a video that shows him hugging a college professor prove that he is some sort of Manchurian Candidate for the Black Panthers now that he is in the fourth year of his presidency?

This won’t work. Derrick Bell did not throw bombs, not even verbal ones. He was a college professor with wild ideas. Einstein was a college professor with wild ideas, too. Shouldn’t colleges teem with college professor with wild ideas? The purpose of college is to expose young people to ideas — and the crazy people who have them.

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