http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2 008/02/17/673670.aspx
Last week, an obviously disturbed, if not deranged, Obama supporter heckled President Clinton during his speech in WI and afterwards while accosting him in the rope line, quoted Barack Obama (who was quoting Spike Lee who pretended to be quoting Malcolm X )to the former President. He said Bill Clinton has been "bamboozling and hoodwinking" the American people.
Now ain't that odd?
Why is it that ever since South Carolina Obama is "borrowing" (ie.plagariazing) certain words of Spike Lee, without credit, in speech after speech after speech?
Is it OK because Spike is his "buddy" too? Or is Obama "really" trying to say that Malcolm is.....?
rom NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
CANTON, OH -- Robert Holeman came to Timken High School here today with a message to deliver to Bill Clinton. He did -- and he said the former president wasn't happy about it.Clinton spoke to a capacity crowd in this Northeast Ohio town, the third of five events today in the Buckeye State. He told voters that the contest was "the power of speeches against the promise of solutions by a world-class change maker."
Throughout the event, as Clinton made his case for his wife, Holeman's dissenting voice could be heard. At times he simply shouted Obama's name. When Clinton would set up a sure applause line, Holeman could be heard heckling. As soon as Clinton finished speaking, the Canton native made a beeline to the ropeline to give Clinton a piece of his mind.
Ironically, as only an Obama or an Obamite (or a DC pundit) can do, after heckling and attacking the President, he then blamed the Clinton campaign for being "divisive"
"I asked the president to please stop the bickering between the campaigns," Holeman said in an interview afterwards. "All this name calling is like the bully in the yard"I think the president's trying hoodwink us, bamboozle us, put us back in the okie doke," he said.
HOODWINK - BAMBOOZLE
Remember those words? Since South Carolina, in Maryland, Wisconsin, Delaware, Texas, Obama has been using those words over and over again in his speeches. Theyr'e from a speech Spike Lee wrote for the character of Malcolm X in his movie of the same name. They are also the first words heard in narration in Spike lee's later movie "Bamboozled".

They were the eternal celluloid words of Malcolm X (as written by Spike Lee, but never uttered by Malcolm X)regarding political maneuvering in the African American community. Here is the speech from the movie where these words are heard:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpe
eches/moviespeechmacolmxharlem.html

So I'm not here this afternoon as a Republican, nor as a Democrat...
So I have to stand here today as what I was when I was born: A black man.
Before there was any such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, we were black...
In fact, before there was any such place as America, we were black!
And after America has long passed from the scene, there will still be black people.
I'm gonna tell you like it really is. Every election year these politicians are sent up here to pacify us! They're sent here and setup here by the White Man!
"I say and I say it again, you've been had. You've been took. You've been HOODWINKED, BAMBOOZLED, led astray...
Spike's Malcolm is gonna tell us how it "really is", why not Obama?
After you read the speech these words came from you don't need a dog's acute hearing to see these words as racial divisive code words used by Obama and his supporters.
The last time I wrote about this("You've Been Bamboozled!" Obama, Spike Lee, Malcolm X , Bill Clinton and the Press Corps- http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/1/26/15930/0207) how Obama had been using these Spike Lee/Malcolm X words - hoodwinked and bamboozle - as race baiting code, a pro Obama columnist wrote an entire Sunday Boston Globe column to show how wrong this simple blogger was about all this:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/02/10/hornswoggled/?page=2
blog commenters insisted that the combination of hoodwink and bamboozle was the giveaway; where else but in the “Malcolm X” speech would you find those “rare” words together?
Well, in Lord Greville’s memoir: “Palmerston never intended anything but to hoodwink his colleagues, bamboozle the French, and gain time” (1885). And in H.L. Mencken: “He does not merely tell how politicians hoodwink, bamboozle and prey upon the boobs; he shows precisely how” (1928). And even in “Some Facts about Treating Railroad Ties” (1912): “ ‘Quick high vacuum’ . . . and other imaginary words, intended to mystify, hoodwink and bamboozle the uninitiated.”
Can you believe that malarkey? Whose spirit was on the mind of the man who accosted Bill Clinton in WI, Malcolm X or Lord Greville? Maybe Obama is "borrowing" from books on preserving wood and not Spike Lee, I guess it's possible...
LET'S GET REAL FOLKS
Wikipedia says that:
Plagiarism is the act of incorporating material from someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgment.
Obama has been quoting this speech over and over, enough that it is sitting high in the head of his most passionate (and disturbed) supporters and NOT ONCE has he ever acknowledged where these words came from, who they were supposedly the words of and who wrote them. Is he trying to reference Spike Lee malcolm X with these words or just trying to steal their rhetorical shine? Which is it?
One thing we know, they didnt come from his buddy in Massachusetts. Or maybe they did....
Whose got Nexis-Lexis??!!
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