Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Election Day 2008: While bloggers and web reports told of Republican thugs intimidating black voters, the only story that made the mainstream press was the video of "Black Panthers" in Philadelphia menacing Republican voters. The Bush Justice Dept went after it with a vengeance. But the tape on which they relied was deceptively edited by a Republican PR firm. Now evidence comes out that the entire incident was staged, and a professional videographer was sent in to film it for public consumption. Stephen Robert Morse, a freelance journalist who happened to be there poll-watching at the time, tells the story to Talking Points Memo. |




