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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts) Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:33 PM Oct 2012

Drudge, Hannity Hype Five-Year-Old Video of Obama That Was Extensively Covered in 2008

Matt Drudge got the five-alarm siren GIF out for "Obama's other race speech" — a lid-blowing, election-rocking video that was supposed to be the right's answer to Mother Jones' secret fundraiser footage of Mitt Romney.

Sean Hannity similarly hyped the "bombshell video," saying it "could dramatically impact the race for the White House" and urged listeners to "see [it] before you vote."

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Within minutes, BuzzFeed's resident video hunter Andrew Kaczynski produced the clip in question, and boy or boy was it ever nothing.

The video that networks were supposedly racking their collective brains over whether to air so close to the debate turned out to be of a Hampton University speech Obama delivered in July of '07 (full video here, full remarks here) in which he gave a "special shout out" to controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright.

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