2002 Obama Video Makes News
The video that our friend Morgen Richmond found, which he allowed Patterico.com to announce this morning, made some news today.
It was played on Rush Limbaugh:
There’s another video that Patterico’s Pontifications, Patterico.com, has uncovered. [Again: it was Morgen who uncovered it. — Ed.] They’ve released a video of State Senator Barack Obama from Illinois. This is January 21st, 2002 in Chicago at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. This is during Martin Luther King Jr. day memorial services.
OBAMA 2002 (garbled audio): I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
OBAMA 2002: Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want!
AUDIENCE: (applause and laughter)
OBAMA 2002: They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes —
RUSH: All right. Kill it, kill it, kill it. With all that god reverb, you can’t understand. I’ll read to you what he’s saying: “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want. They want to make sure people don’t take their stuff. But the principle of empathy recognizes that there are more subtle forms of violence to which we are answerable.
“The spirit of empathy condemns not only the use of fire hoses and attack dogs to keep people down but also accountants and tax loopholes to keep people down. … When a company town sees its plant closing because some distant executives made some decision despite the wage concessions, despite the tax breaks, and they see their entire economy collapsing, they feel violence…”
This is Obama ten years ago. He hasn’t changed, is the point. This is who he is! The rich, of course, they’re all for nonviolence. They don’t like community organizers. They don’t like people raising hell in the streets. They don’t like violence. They got their stuff. They got what they want. They just want to make sure that folks don’t take their stuff. By the way, that’s why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett run around and claim they’re for tax increases.
So that these “rabble” in the streets don’t want to take their stuff.
And on Bill O’Reilly:
Folks like Morgen, and Charles Johnson at the Daily Caller (the “good” Charles Johnson), and John Sexton at Breitbart.com, represent the kind of blogger I admire most: someone who actually goes out and digs up something new, rather than just flapping their gums about the latest morsels thrown at us by Big Media. Folks like this don’t follow the news cycle. They create the news cycle. I’m proud to know them and I thank Morgen for his occasional contributions here.
I hope readers here will take the time to heap kudos on Morgen.
Ding.
Patterico (83033d) — 10/3/2012 @ 11:54 pmGuten morgen…
Gazzer (9b910f) — 10/4/2012 @ 12:02 amIndeed. GW, sirrah.
IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully In All 57 States (8e2a3d) — 10/4/2012 @ 2:07 amIn a world of hack journalism Morgen is a real example of what a journalist should be.
Kudos
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jbd (2f3fba) — 10/4/2012 @ 3:29 amDidn’t this video come out several years ago?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/10/02/_.html
time123 (33ce8e) — 10/4/2012 @ 5:08 amTime123 – the video in this post is not the same as the one you reference, via Weigel. And yes, people reported on that speech at the time, based on the prepared speech. The full video showed what was not included in the prepared remarks.
JD (ab8eee) — 10/4/2012 @ 5:48 amTime123 will be along to correct its mistake any time now.
JD (ab8eee) — 10/4/2012 @ 6:53 amThis is big. Kudos to both of you.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 10/4/2012 @ 6:57 amMark Levin also mentioned your blog on his radio show last nite, Patterico.
Elephant Stone (65d289) — 10/4/2012 @ 7:10 amWhen did British plantation owners in Kenya stop beating Kikuyus to death? When did the Dutch stop beating Indonesians to death?
That’s where Obama comes from. Take it or leave it.
American ancestry/loyalty counts.
nk (875f57) — 10/4/2012 @ 7:15 amIf the surrogates can just keep tearing down Obama while Team Romney stays above the fray, I think it a win.
But it goes to a point, you need both types to win.
Rodney King's Spirit (9ce6d4) — 10/4/2012 @ 7:31 amJD, Thanks for the clarification.
time123 (873f99) — 10/4/2012 @ 11:15 amThe real question is, when did the Brits start beating up the Kikuyu? As in, start things off.
Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/4/2012 @ 11:28 amAgain with the optical mouse premature firing.
Was just going to say the Kikuyu were no angels when the Brits encountered them.
Capstick’s “Warrior,” a bio of Richard Meinertzhagen, contains a story of a punitive raid the good colonel led against the Kikuyu. Seems a British settler attempted to visit one of their villages to trade. They beat him, stripped him, pounded wedges between his teeth to force his jaws open, then drowned him in their excretions during an after hours dance party.
Even after all that the Brits weren’t entirely copacetic with the slaughter they knew they had to unleash for the encouragement of others.
Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/4/2012 @ 11:34 amI was just saying what Obama learned growing up.
nk (875f57) — 10/4/2012 @ 11:55 amnk, Obama grew up?
Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/4/2012 @ 11:59 amOh, yeah. He is a man.
A good husband and father. Talented and charming.
Worthless in just about every other way.
nk (875f57) — 10/4/2012 @ 12:24 pmI have not visited the debate thread because I am afraid to. Do I guess the consensus is that Romney did good, even with his whispery voice and six inches shorter than Obama?
nk (875f57) — 10/4/2012 @ 12:27 pmThanks everyone. It’s not just random coincidence that the video aired here. As far as I’m concerned, Patterico is one of the “founding fathers” of conservative blogdom – a true warrior for the cause. It’s an honor to be featured on this site from time to time.
Morgen (a179aa) — 10/4/2012 @ 3:46 pmMe and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad would beg to differ.
Something we can agree on.
Steve57 (c8ac21) — 10/4/2012 @ 4:05 pmInteresting. Do you have a link?
Patterico (83033d) — 10/4/2012 @ 7:44 pmO’Reilly was mistaken.
Obama didn’t mention 47%. And Romney didn’t go anywhere near criticizing the President for his Class Warfare rhetoric. (O’Reilly said Obama would and that Romney MUST.)
But Romney clobbered Obama anyway.
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