Black Panther Voter Intimidation Story Confirmed as Being Somewhat Storyish
Drudge Report and Fox News have understandably been all over that incident in Philadelphia in which black people were spotted allegedly being black at a polling place.
Now, Talking Points Memo is jumping in on the action, confirming the earlier reports that the black people were indeed being black…
[An Obama supporter] confirms that there were in fact two black panthers guarding the polling place, a nursing home on Fairmont Avenue in north Philadelphia, earlier this morning.
Aha!
But she says one was an officially designated poll watcher (it was not immediately clear which municipal office had designated him in that role), and the second was his friend. The second panther, who left two or three hours ago, was the one with the nightstick, she says.
I don't know about you, but all my friends carry nightsticks. Don't yours?
Dischell says that earlier this morning a few men who identified themselves as being from the McCain campaign came and started taking pictures of the two panthers on their cell phones. She suggested that they seemed to be baiting the panthers, and that the designated watcher may have given one of them the finger in response to the picture taking.
Wow! I have not heard this crazy aspect of this monumental isolated supposedly-meaningful event! The finger?! That's fucking disrespectful!
We might need to call this a mis-election and go all the way back to the beginning and start all over again.
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This is no different than the Klan or the Nazis. We must resign ourseleves that we are in a soft tyranny. Protect your rights read the constitution and know how to protect yourself. Vote out every incumbent and call this administration to the carpet. THEY WORK FOR US THE PEOPLE NOT THE OTHEWR WAY AROUND!!!!
Well, I just watched the video, and honestly it's just one guys word against another, only we don’t even get to hear the other guy’s side. The guy with the 'stick' left. For all I know the guy doing the talking in the video is lying about what was said, after all he's the only one the reporters spoke with. Why didn't they ask the guy at the door? Where are all the people who were 'afraid' to vote? Maybe they didn't talk to them, because no one was afraid! Hell, some of them probably felt a lot better knowing he was there making sure that they weren't harassed.
But you’re right it’s not funny, it’s another example of the media exploiting people’s ignorance and fear. It’s sick and BS.
Report the truth. The video is all over the blogsphere as well as Youtube. It's intimidation for ANY voter. You might find this funny, but if I were to vote in this precint and those two guys with night sticks were stationed there at the door, I would NOT go through it. I'd be scared sh*tless. Even with humor you should see that everybody has the right to vote without FEAR.
I love humor, but you just lost my respect.