Of all the manufactured crises and outrages of the right during Obama’s first term, nothing was more painfully stupid than their freakout over Philadelphia’s three living members of the New Black Panthers. There really isn’t any such thing as the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, and there never has been. You can’t call three dudes a “party.” In any case, it’s amazing that the Justice Department even got started accusing those clowns of violating the Voting Rights Act. The whole thing was so phony that it made Benghazi seem substantive. So, why is it a problem that the right is attacking Obama’s Labor Secretary nominee for dropping most of the charges in the case when that decision was made four months before he joined the civil rights division at the Department of Justice? Why should chronology be more important than the incident itself?
