First of all this story was concocted by none other the Andrew Breitbart who has made a career of lying about pretty much everything. From Shirley Sherrod, to ACORN, Clinton Plotting a Tea Party Attack, University of Missouri Labor Class, etc. The old joke states you can tell he’s lying because his mouth is moving. You heard about the lies, I’m sure. So rest assured that this is a lie also. It’s funny how he’s lies so much and he still has a job.
The reason Obama was marching was to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma which ended when the civil rights marchers were attacked by law enforcement at Edmund Pettus Bridge. If you have to (shame on you), look into the whole story about the original march on the internet. President Obama wasn’t the only one there. Former president Bill and then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton were also there. Al Sharpton and the originator of the reenactment, the legendary Congressman John Lewis were there too. So were about 10,000 other people. So were members of the New Black Panthers Party. If you read Breitbart’s original “story” notice that he doesn’t mention any of this.
Then candidate Obama and New Black Panthers leader Malik Zulu Shabazz both gave speeches at the event. They spoke from the exact same podium and they both marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It wasn’t Obama’s event. It wasn’t Shabazz’s event. It was an event that happened annually for many years.
So Briebart is lying. Again.
He also implies that Obama’s campaign website posted an endorsement by the New Black Panther Party in March 2008. "Who posted the Panthers' endorsement on the Obama campaign's website, and at whose instructions?" Briebart ask his readers. The Washington Times, that bastion of conservative views posted the answer three years ago; the website, my.barackobama.com, allowed users to set up their own blog pages, and the Panthers themselves put up the endorsement. When the campaign became aware of the post, they took it down.
Even more important was that someone else marched on that day. It was the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth “the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South” according to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He died today at the age of 89. Obama was pushing Shuttleworth along the route in his wheelchair.
Briebart is a nasty disgusting race baiter and liar and that is all that he will ever be.
There are much greater men we should be talking about.
