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VOTER INTIMIDATION?

Fox News Outraged by Lone Black Panther in PA

He's a designated poll watcher, arrested in 2008

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by Mary Noble

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Fox News has spent long segments of its election day coverage agonizing over a single New Black Panther party member filmed standing outside a polling place in Philly.

Jerry Jackson is a designated poll watcher, and if he was planning to intimidate white voters, he chose a poor location, as Slate's Dave Weigel notes. The 14th ward is home to very few white voters.

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    PNWest
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    Yet more race baiting by Fox. I'm sure that a black inner city precinct is the best place to go to intimidate Romney voters. This must be why Romney lost the election.
  • PNWest
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    @LetsAllBeHappy Get ya some popcorn and get ready for the election returns. That'll turn that frown upside down :>)
  • LetsAllBeHappy
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    @PNWest you are funny-true you are-but still wrong indeed-I shall be eating a totinos 1.25 pizza while the election is on watching Romney win-then maybe i will be able to get a job and afford Dazorno-or how ever you spell it
  • Calfkiller
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    @Thunderchicken Yeah wouldn't want to get caught pointing out that he looks like a moron, standing there like he's some kind of para Secret Service.

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    Nemesis3X
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    So then it would be ok for a clan member to do the same? Or is it just the typical, "it's ok as long as we say it's ok?" Ah, the hypocrisy.
  • MRMacrum
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    @Nemesis3X - "Ah the hypocrisy"

    Are you asking a question for me to answer? Or are you asking the question just to set up your point? Wouldn't want to spoil your fun if it was the latter by giving you an answer.
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  • PNWest
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    If you are so afraid of a black man wearing a beret in front of a voting place I imagine you are going to be terrified for the next four years with a black man standing IN the White House.
  • LetsAllBeHappy
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    @PNWest good gracious-it has nothing to do with a "black Man" it is the group he is affiliated with-in 2008 this group was calling "white Women" crackers-shouted that whitey should be killed-called out a black man who was married to a white woman-a betrayer-and tried to intimidate Black Republican Polling monitors--But I do not want to scare you-I realize I am a white woman--meow

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  • Waynestew
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    This would be intimidation if he were trying to STOP voters from exercising their right to vote. He is not therefore I don't see the problem. And he is in a black neighborhood for goodness sakes come on Fox, come on.
  • MRMacrum
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    Yet they don't blink an eye when one of their own straps a weapon to his waist and hangs out at one of their Hoe Downs. Mind you, I have no problem with carrying in public, but it just seems odd that an unarmed black man with a beret makes them more nervous than one of their own packing a gun.
  • DyingBreed
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    Imagine the headline if it were a lone Klan member standing outside a place polling 98% for Romney. I think it may be taken more seriously by all news channels.

    I don't care what your agenda is. If you don't work at the polling place, and you aren't there to vote, you shouldn't be allowed to loiter around the place. I don't want anyone of any ethnicity, religion, color, marital status, orientation, wealth (or lack thereof), etc, to feel even slightly intimated when they go to exercise their right to vote.
  • jamie91
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    @DominicSarno do you know what a poll watcher is? They are assigned a spot to stay and remain throughout the day. Yes, he is standing or "loitering" because he is supposed to be there. Standing there, not interacting with voters, as he is supposed to be.
  • DominicSarno
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    You mean 79% of the News Fox reports on Is news the liberal media wants to ignore.

    Yes it is sad when there is only one network that actually reports news.
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    mimi57
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    @DominicSarno Interesting, huh?... but yet confusing, since we are Israels ally, I've never understood why they go
    against they're own Country/ people, I guess loyalty is not a strong point of theirs. If I wasn't going to help my country, I sure wouldn't deliberately and intentionally hurt it.
  • DominicSarno
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    @mimi57 I think there might be a thesis in there. Judism is the only religion that is connected by ethnicity and perhaps it is in there that this paradox lies.
  • LoneWolf702
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    ..You Can't Really Compare A Black Panther To The KKK.. ..But To Answer Your Question No There Everywhere They Just Wear Suits Now..:)
  • Calfkiller
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    @LoneWolf702 your right that is a little far to reach. Maybe I have a suspicious nature, but I would be more concerned about what is going on behind the building. I highly doubt the new blank panthers consist of one member.
  • mimi57
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    The Black Panther Party was founded in the mid 60's by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal. They were well known
    for intimidation tactics, violence and murder of policemen. Their hero was Malcolm X...a racist and anti .semite.
    Huey Newton was shot and killed in the late 80's. So they weren't exactly choir boys..".Live by the sword, die by the sword", seems to apply here, and yes, I would find the man somewhat intimidating.
  • Denizen_Kate
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    I met these two very briefly in 1969 in Oakland, CA (don't ask -- I was a radical little hippie girl). They weren't intimidating so much as boringly repetitive, but as I said it was a brief encounter and perhaps I caught them on an off day. Definitely not choir boys, though. That said, this guy is just standing there, apparently not even talking with people going in and out, and he doesn't look all that scary to me. The guys with the night sticks in 2008 were scary.
  • mimi57
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    @Denizen_Kate It still doesn't change their history, they were/ are angry militant racists,and it doesn't matter
    if you are a white racist or a black one. It's still wrong...
  • LoneWolf702
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    @mimi57 They were created to combat black lynchings and police brutality in Afroamerican Neighborhoods which seemed to be ok to most non Afroamerican's in the sixties..Is fighting fire with fire ok.. Maybe not but it is effective..
  • ConserveUSA
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    @Denizen_Kate I watched a documentary focusing one of the former 1960's Black Panther Party Member is really upset about the so called New Black Panther Party. So, you were a Hippie Girl? How Cool!
  • Denizen_Kate
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    @ConserveUSA - Thanks, but not really all that cool. I made some very questionable decisions when I was young. That particular trip to Oakland was with one of those questionable decisions (a boyfriend), and we weren't actually there for any political purpose. We were, in fact, on our way to meet up with a guy named Owsley Stanley. Google that one! If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there. ;-)

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  • ACTSmom
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    Well, we should all be outraged...regardless of the political bent of this site today. This guy was charged with voter intimidation in 2008...but of course our Justice Department dropped the charges. So many of you are giving this a pass but will make a dozen or more comments about republican "suppression" of votes that is ludicrous.
  • Dan_Tien
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    A black man standing outside a polling place in a predominately black neighborhood was arrested once for intimidating voters and charges were dropped. Fox News is outraged. A white man running for the Senate in Missouri was arrested 8 times for trespassing at abortion clinics (to intimidate women seeking abortions?), charges are not dropped. Fox News is not outraged.
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