ABC, not PBS, first aired Obama’s 1991 Derrick Bell love-fest

The Daily Calle6 ^ | 3/11/12 | Jeff Poor

[Nachum]

Whether or not it was the bombshell many hoped it would be, footage emerged last week — most notably on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” – from a 1991 speech by then-Harvard Law School student Barack Obama, asking an audience to “open [their] hearts and minds” to the controversial Harvard professor and Derrick Bell.

That footage included an embrace between Bell and Obama in a portion that was cut out of the PBS “Frontline” documentary called “The Choice 2008.” Some have made the case that that editing was proof of a media campaign to protect then-Democratic presidential nominee Obama and hide any ties to a professor whose theories on race have made him radical to some.

But PBS wasn’t the first to air that footage. Weeks before that “Frontline” documentary premiered on Oct. 14, 2008, the Sept. 26, 2008 broadcast of “20/20” on ABC included it in the introduction to Diane Sawyer’s interview with Obama.

[philman_36]

So what about the Breitbart et al claim of never before aired and suppressed before the 08 election?
Where did they say that?

[philman_36]

His team elected to air it.
To air what? Or are you confused?
Didn't they release video of Ogletree bragging that the video was hidden?

I pick confused...or rather wanting to confuse.

[philman_36]

PBS has had the whole thing posted for ages.
Where?

[DrDude]

Please include me on the Ping List. Thanks. DrDude

[Kaslin]

That is because that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave had never been vetted in 2008. Had the LSM, or MSM, or SRM, whatever you want to call them done their job, he would have never been elected. All they did is look at him with blinders on and put cotton in their ears

[joesbucks]

But it wasn’t hidden. It aired before the election.

[philman_36]

But it wasn’t hidden. It aired before the election.
A whole 12 seconds aired. Did it even show or state who or what that 12 seconds was about? Or was it just some generic, filler BS feel good pap?
You're pathetic and disgusting in your attempt to distort and trivialize this.

[joesbucks]

Where did it only air for 12 seconds?