Prof. Bell's widow: "Pathetic and desperate that they would think this (video) was such a bombshell

from Erik Wemple on the WP blog: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/derrick-bells-widow-unaware-of-second-hug-between-prez-and-prof/2012/03/09/gIQAzfel1R_blog.html

03/09/2012

Derrick Bell’s widow: Unaware of second hug between prez and prof

____ Too bad Bell himself cannot speak up on these matters. He died last fall of cancer at the age of 80.

So who can speak on his behalf? His widow, 65-year-old Janet D. Bell. Reached at her New York home this afternoon, Janet Bell was fully informed of the Breitbartian publicity. “I think there is no there there,” she said. “And I think that it’s pathetic and desperate on their part that they would think that this was such a bombshell. It’s typical in one sense: It’s the radical right wing making a mountain out of a molehill with distortion and misinformation.”

She watched the Breitbart editors promoting their “scoop” on Fox News’s “Hannity.” “I saw Sean Hannity — he had to twist himself up in so many pretzels to try to justify the dramatic nature of this footage.”

Yeah, but the late professor and Obama were buds, right? “They had very little contact” after Obama left Harvard Law School. “He never had contact with the president as president” — at least as far as Janet Bell can recall . . .

She continued: ”Derrick thought he was qualified to be president. He didn’t reach out to him. .?.?. He didn’t want to become any distraction. ”


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