At the National Review, Andrew McCarthy totally falls for Andrew Breitbart’s fake story about Barack Obama appearing at a “rally for the New Black Panther Party” — which was actually the celebration of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama: Breitbart: Obama Appeared and Marched with New Black Panther Party in 2007 — Photos Included - By Andrew C. McCarthy - The Corner - National Review Online.

At Big Government, Andrew Breitbart reports that, as a presidential candidate in March 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party. Included in Obama’s Panther entourage was Malik Zulu Shabazz, the racist group’s “national chief.” Shabazz was one of the Panthers charged in the voter intimidation case that the Obama/Holder Justice Department dismissed in 2009 — even though the government had already won the case (the Panthers defaulted) and the evidence supporting the civil charges was overwhelming.

This is a shocking story, and a breathtaking indictment of the mainstream media which went out of its way to avoid vetting Obama as a candidate — and to make sure anyone who tried to do due diligence got no sunshine. A candidate who chose to appeared in the company of, say, the KKK, would have provoked relentlessly hostile media coverage and, in short order, have been marginalized as disqualified to hold responsible elective office. As Andrew points out, one of those present with Obama was Najee Muhammed, the Panthers’ “minister of war” who had called for Georgia police officers to be murdered. Yet, the press buried the Obama/Panthers connection. For example, after initially mentioning the presence of the Panthers, NPR omitted Panther references from its subsequent coverage.

McCarthy gives absolutely no indication that he understands this was not a New Black Panther Party event — it was a commemoration of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday,” attended by many other politicians and at least 10,000 people.

Breitbart’s false race-baiting narrative is spreading quickly through the right wing echo chamber.

And there they all go.

Ed Morrissey falls for it at Hot Air: Did Obama make a campaign appearance with Malik Shabazz? « Hot Air

Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller shrieks: SHOCK PHOTOS: CANDIDATE OBAMA APPEARED AND MARCHED WITH NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN 2007!!! - Atlas Shrugs

Pajamas Media goes all in: The PJ Tatler » Shocking Photos: Barack Obama Appeared and Marched with New Black Panthers in 2007

And of course, Michelle Malkin: Michelle Malkin » Race hustlers of a feather: Obama and the New Black Panther Party