New Black Panther Party leader Samir Shabazz on Monday made an anti-Semitic remark while blaming the Fox News Channel for fanning the fires of discontent over his involvement in voter intimidation back in November 2008.
As NewsBusters reported on Election Day that year, two Black Panthers were situated outside a polling station in Philadelphia (video right).
This eventually led to complaints by the Bush administration which the Justice Department recently dropped fueling accusations that the charges were dismissed for racial reasons.
With this in mind, the Associated Press reported the following Monday (h/t Rusty Weiss):
New Black Panther Party leader King Samir Shabazz made the derogatory reference to Fox News during a news conference in Harlem. It was held in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, who recently called for hearings into the Justice Department's handling of the matter. [...]
Samir said the allegations of voter intimidation were false and that he had been caricatured by conservative news organizations, including Fox.
"You call me a white hating bigot? Let me tell you who King Samir really is," he said, describing himself an activist and hip hop artist who spends most of his time caring for his children.
"That's what you don't hear from Fox Jews, I mean Fox News," he said.
For more racist rantings by Shabazz, watch this:
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