{"id":187904,"date":"2011-01-29T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/29\/big-surprise-the-new-black-panther-voter-intimidation-was-a-manufactured-news-event\/"},"modified":"2011-01-29T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T02:20:00","slug":"big-surprise-the-new-black-panther-voter-intimidation-was-a-manufactured-news-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/29\/big-surprise-the-new-black-panther-voter-intimidation-was-a-manufactured-news-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise, the New Black Panther &#8220;Voter Intimidation&#8221; Was a Manufactured News Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nv2Zkgs8dOM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Listen to GOP Lawyers Manipulating the Video at the Time<\/span><\/div>\n<p>What a surprise.  One of the things that had the right wing echo chamber, and George W. Bush&#8217;s corrupted Civil Rights Commission, the allegation that the New Black Panthers were somehow a part of of a Democratic voter intimidation scheme (in the blackest part of Philadelphia?).<\/p>\n<p>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/01\/poll_watcher_to_new_black_panther_party_videographer_dont_fk_up_the_story_video.php\">it&#8217;s all a fraud<\/a>, and it has been literally since day 1:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>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&#8217;s when the commotion begins.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows someone off-screen to Morse&#8217;s left, telling the officer &#8220;I got him, I got him.&#8221; 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 &#8220;Put it down. You&#8217;ve got enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Bartle Bull chimes in. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you threaten him with your hands. You&#8217;re threatening him. Don&#8217;t you use your hands!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re on the same team,&#8221; says another Republican poll watcher off screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re f%$#ing up the story. Don&#8217;t f%$# up the story,&#8221; one unidentified poll watcher tells Morse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys are lawyers, I&#8217;m a videographer,&#8221; Morse says.<\/p>\n<p>Morse told TPM in an e-mail that he doesn&#8217;t think it was Hill who was intimidating him, but says someone was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of guys wearing SUITS were were actually intimidating ME at this point,&#8221; Morse told TPM in an e-mail. &#8220;It was certainly not Mr. Hill who told me to put the camera down. It was one or two GOP lawyers, whose names I never got and I never saw again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember a crowd of maybe 10 lawyers (or seemingly lawyers, suits I should say, since Bull isn&#8217;t a lawyer) standing around &#8212; in the original (more famous) video &#8212; one lawyer makes it into one of the shots, but im pretty sure it was another guy &#8212; not the bald guy in the shot &#8212; who was being a dick to me,&#8221; Morse told TPM in an e-mail. &#8220;At least one person was being a dick, and I was quite angry at this point when they were telling me to shut the camera &#8212; hence the expletive (which i make no apologies for using!).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t just edit the tape, they manipulated the taping on site at time.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Phant lawyers were attempting to edit the event in real time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It makes reality difficult to determine, but I always fall back on what work when the USSR was at its zenith: If they accuse you of some sort of skulduggery, it is safe to assume that this is what they are doing themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to GOP Lawyers Manipulating the Video at the Time What a surprise. One of the things that had the right wing echo chamber, and George W. Bush&#8217;s corrupted Civil Rights Commission, the allegation that the New Black Panthers were somehow a part of of a Democratic voter intimidation scheme (in the blackest part of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1000,1064,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-elections","category-media","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}