Aaron Klein — who is desperate to hype anything even remotely negative about President Obama and his administration — predictably pounced on the latest negative attack on the president, declaring in an Oct. 3 WND article that “Newly resurfaced photographs show President Obama appearing and marching with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Ala., in March 2007,” going on to assert that “the photos present new evidence of a possible relationship between Obama and the controversial black extremist group.”
Klein is engaging in wishful thinking. The reality — something that Klein will never report about Obama — is that the event in question was the 42nd anniversary of the 1965 civil rights march on Selma, which was attended by thousands. Klein offers no evidence whatsoever that Obama interacted with anyone from the NBPP, nor did he mention that among the other attendees was civil rights pioneer Fred Shuttlesworth, whom Obama actually was pictured with (unlike with the misleadingly cropped picture accompanying Klein’s article).
Klein also touted how the photos are “reportedly featured in a book set to be released tomorrow by J. Christian Adams, the Department of Justice whistleblower in the New Black Panther Party, or NBPP, voter intimidation case.” Klein doesn’t mention that Adams has been utterly discredited.
This is what happens when a reporter’s ideology comes before telling the truth.