re: #62 Tundra Boy

I just took a look at the breitbartian video where Charles Ogletree claimed they ‘hid’ the part of the Bell/Obama videa where Obama praised (it sounded like a normal intro to me) Bell and then hugged him. Charles Ogletree said ‘we hid it in 2008’. Any idea who ‘we’ might be? Was he being serious or flippant?

I’m sure this would make more sense if only there were two or three chalkboards available.

‘Glenn Beck’: Who Is Charles Ogletree?

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The old Black Panthers and the New Black Panthers call for that. He was part of this. OK, or at least he edited to the newspaper. I’m sure he was uninvolved other than that.

This past May — this is where it gets interesting — Ogletree received an award from the Ella Baker Center for Social Justice. Ella Baker, where have I heard that before? Oh, yes. Yes, that’s right. That’s right. Ella Baker — who started that? Van Jones. Also, the Black Liberation Army. Black Liberation Army. Black liberation — oh, black liberation theology — that’s right. That’s Jeremiah Wright theology.

The Black Liberation Army — there was a violent shoot-out of the Black Panthers in the 1970s and they stormed a police station and opened fire, killing a San Francisco area cop. The case was eventually dropped after they were allegedly tortured during the investigation.

In 2005, suspects were arrested after refusing to answer grand jury questions about the case. Coming to their defense, Danny Glover and Charles Ogletree. Finally, Charles Ogletree has a few powerful friends, including Michelle and Barack Obama. Here he is:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA: And then there is my friend and former law school professor, Charles Ogletree, product of the Merced Public Schools.

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Now, he is an example of how you can bring your skills back. His ambitions took him far away from home, but he has never forgotten where he came from.

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BECK: OK. He taught both of the Obamas at Harvard. He says he advised them and then continues to advise them now, saying, quote, “They have not hesitated to call me over the past 20-plus years as needed.”

Now, I wonder if Obama called during the Henry Gates debacle. You remember that, right? Where Obama said the police acted stupidly before he knew any of the facts. Gates’ lawyer? Charles Ogletree. Gosh.

Go read it all. Stop laughing!11