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Conservative Outlets Push Old Video of Barack Obama Talking About the Poor

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The 5-year-old tape shows him talking about New Orleans, bias and urban despair. Howard Kurtz on how Fox, Drudge and the Daily Caller are casting it as a racial controversy.

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