Video: Obama blames the media for making a big deal about Gates comment
posted at 12:15 pm on July 24, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Well, that’s what happens when a President puts his foot in his mouth at the prime-time press conference he himself demanded. Fox News reporter Mike Emanuel tells Megyn Kelly that the new word out from Robert Gibbs is that Barack Obama is mystified about why the media would consider it a big deal when he accuses a local police department of acting “stupidly” in a case where he admitted he didn’t have all the facts. In other words, Obama is blaming the media for covering his remarks, even though they were televised live to over 28 million people (via Patrick Hynes):
Makes Rush Limbaugh’s comment about Obama being the media’s Waterloo even more prescient, doesn’t it? If nothing else, this should wake up the White House press corps to Obama’s ever-present impulse to lay the blame on someone else — anyone else — for his own missteps.
The first rule of holes: stop digging. Obama should just apologize for reaching a conclusion on national TV without having the facts, and let the matter drop entirely. Instead, Obama will likely let the weekend news cycle bury the controversy. Will the media let him get away with blaming them? I predict … heartache, to quote my esteemed blogging partner.
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When Obama is TOTUS-free, he becomes Rev. Wright.
faraway on July 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Yeah. One of the democrat tools just pulled that argument out on Fox. He said that it was the neighbor’s racism that caused him to call 911 when he knew that the owner was breaking into his own house. What a load of cr@p. America won’t buy that, as most of us used to pray that our neighbors would call the police if they saw someone trying to break into our house.
The left are digging themselves a very deep hole on this and they are going to push the racist angle as much as they can, because they have nothing else and they have to divert from the racial grievance mongering of Gates and The Precedent. They are going to push until this nation explodes, because that is what they do.
progressoverpeace on July 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Obama’s First Rule of Holes: Shovel Ready!
Christien on July 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Next week: “This is not the Skip Gates I knew”. Bank on it.
Fletch54 on July 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM
See. That’s their whole motive. They have to, by necessity, keep stirring the racial soup. It’s the only way to maintain the voting bloc. Remember, with these statists, it is all about achieving and preserving control and power. The best way to do that is to argue and instill that one group of individuals is inferior to another and that this perceived inferiority must be remedied by all means necessary.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 24, 2009 at 1:17 PM
Typical. Messiah turns in another clue-deficient performance, and it’s everyone’s fault but his own…
n0doz on July 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
The neighbor doesn’t have a union to back her up.
ALINSKY RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
faraway on July 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
And that is when Obama will whip out NSPD-51. That he will give credit to President Bush.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Tru dat. Teh One feels sorry that you’re so stupid.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM
I’m not familiar with “error”. Link please?
BobMbx on July 24, 2009 at 1:20 PM
The 0ne just made every police officer’s job in this country a bit harder, and he doesn’t understand what the big deal is? Talk about divisive and ignorant.
4shoes on July 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Next, Barry will talk to the media’s momma outside.
Christien on July 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Forget about Gates, this guy should be apologizing for his entire term in office, from the day he blew $250 million on his coronation (and it’s been straight downhill from there).
The best way to apologize would be to offer his resignation. He is clearly out of his league and more and more people are facing this simple fact.
NoDonkey on July 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM
This is so true and as he becomes more frustrated I expect more freudian slips from his purple lips.
farright on July 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM
I guess he does have a major racial problem. Up until now, non-racism was one of the three plusses I felt forced to give him. To paraphrase a commenter who posts on here put it on another thread-the racial genie is out of the bottle and it ain’t going back in no matter what. Some things follow a pol around his whole political life and this remark falls into that category. It might drop out of sight for a time, but it will surely re-surface again and again. We got your number O—-!
jeanie on July 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM
I hope that 911-neighbor has their affairs in order because you have to know that the MSM is digging up everything they can find to smear yet another private citizen.
To which I say, go for it lefty loons and MSM. That’ll backfire bigger than Barry’s fauxpas.
Knucklehead on July 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM
hear, hear!
But, The Precedent would never do that, since he wants to destroy this nation. He has never been out for anything other than to exact revenge on whites, the successful, and the West, in general. He made this clear when he explained his position on captial gains taxes, that he was more concerned with bringing pain to certain people than anything else – even to the extent of restricting governmental receipts if the taxes hurt the right people.
progressoverpeace on July 24, 2009 at 1:25 PM
They’re going to cannibalize a fellow liberal.
BadgerHawk on July 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM
When I worked the hotel desk I had to call the cops a hundred times, and every time, the dispatcher asked for the age, gender and race of the suspect.
I fail to see how this was “profiling”. Two men who happen to be black shoved down a front door. Somebody saw them and told police two black men were shoving down a door. The police go to the address and meet the two black men who were seen shoving down the door, inside the door, and confront them about shoving down the door. What’s the dispute?
Chris_Balsz on July 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Bush was such a classless, redneck cowboy.
Cornhusker on July 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM
“Uhhh, that’s not the race-baiter I knew at Cambridge all those years ago.”
OmahaConservative on July 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM
The police union press conference was on a little while ago. Those guys were great–very dignified and totally in support of Crowley.
The MA association of police unions is asking for an apology from Ogabe, and from the idiot governor and lame-o mayor who also jumped the gun and made inappropriate statements.
juliesa on July 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Obama’s cultists are lapping this up
faraway on July 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Yep. The left and the MSM are just despicable, lying scum. The lowest people I have ever seen. They will attack anyone and everyone to save their Precedent. But, America is beginning to wake up, finally.
Yeah, and it’s going to get ugly. This will not be solved cleanly, though the dems were never going to let the US get off without serious pain, anyway. They have been apologizing for the US all over the place and making us pay in blood was always part of their idea. The Precedent thinks we are guilty of something (lots of things in his simple and demented mind) and must pay a heavy price, while the self-hating white guilters who support him also think we are guilty of all sorts of nastiness and are looking to make this nation atone in blood. People are realizing that this is the path they have put us on.
progressoverpeace on July 24, 2009 at 1:31 PM
A President is suppose to be the “President of all the People”. Not the “Black’s President” anymore than the “White’s President”. Not the “Ivy league’s” President” anymore than the “Cop’s President”.
A President should instinctively realize that calling individuals, and even more so groups, and particularly his own country’s citizens, stupid is way beneath the dignity of his office or pretty much any office for that matter.
A President is suppose to make his remarks contingent on facts and reasoning, not on which side he feels strong emotional empathy (aka, prejudice) for and against.
The equivalent of a 5 or 6 start General (CIC) should not even be getting involved in a relatively minor dispute between the equivalent of a couple of privates.
Barack Obama is mystified because he is seriously emotionally immature as well as being profoundly morally defective and substantially mentally unbalanced.
HalJordan on July 24, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Obama’s Inner Racist
faraway on July 24, 2009 at 1:36 PM
It is a big effin deal with the TOTUS goes on national prime time television and implies a police officer/department was stupid or racist.
Blake on July 24, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Right. Which pretty much makes him your run-of-the-mill stuck-up elite lib. moron.
JiangxiDad on July 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM
blake, don’t blame TOTUS. He/she did his job.
faraway on July 24, 2009 at 1:37 PM
The Obamessiah is never going to talk about law enforcement cases again. That is pretty clear.
Speedwagon82 on July 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Verdict first. Evidence later. Off with their heads!
Cheshire Cat on July 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Liberal elitism at it’s worst…Maybe Obama and Gates should act like men for once in their life and blame Gates and himself for “acting stupidly”. If anybody wants to know why there’s still racism in this country, you have only to look to those two idiots for the cause.
orlandocajun on July 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM
It goes well beyond that. If King Solomon had been like Barack Obama he would have either given the baby to the wrong mother or upon further reflection had it cut in half.
KentAllard on July 24, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Well he did take credit for the sox pitchers historical game, because he wore a sox jacket, to girly throw a baseball. So of course it’s the press’s fault. Are you kidding? It could NEVER be Obama’s fault, and of course Obama will blame the press, because he knows they’ll roll over, and take it. They are his servants, minions, and all around lap dogs.
capejasmine on July 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Barack Obama has two very distinctive personalities at the same time right now in the present and in my channeling sessions with him he goes back and forth between the two. He doesn’t seem to be able to make up his mind which he wants to be. I have named the one personality Homie Obama and the other Squire Obama.
Homie Obama is an angry Black man who found his soul mate in Michelle the angry hate America Black woman of his dreams and in Jeremiah Wright the God damn America and curse all things whitey firebrand mentor he had been searching for.
Squire Obama on the other hand is an upper class elitist white liberal in the John Kerry mode who really very much wanted to marry a rich white woman and only married Michelle instead as he needed to establish his Black cover and sought out Jeremiah Wright simply to gain his Black credentials or in the vernacular “creds”.
This is making treating him most difficult as it is most vexing to determine if he is coming or going, an upper class elitist white liberal very much in the mode of John Kerry or an angry ghetto Black man. Fortunately I am given to understand that someone who comments on this very board is something of an expert on what I call the Squire Obama persona. I believe his initials are JD, so I will endeavor to concentrate my future efforts on treating Homie Obama and hopefully Doctor JD can concentrate on Squire Obama.
At my advanced age and state of decomposition I can hardly be expected to treat both of Barack Obama’s contradictory personalities especially with the complicating factor of the pronounced pyromaniac characteristic emerging in both of his split personalities.
Sigmund on July 24, 2009 at 2:02 PM
There is no end to narcissism.
As Elton John might say, “Sorry seems to be the hardest word.”
drjohn on July 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I think this whole incident may hurt Obama more significantly than pundits expect and more than poll respondents will admit.
Obama’s candidacy was premised, in part, on his promise of “post-racial” politics. Here was a black candidate that seemed “safe,” “acceptable” and “reasonable,” with a Harvard pedigree and a calm, mellifluous baritone. (Compare with Republicans’ flirtation with the similarly “safe,” “acceptable” and “reasonable” Colin Powell in 1996, and contrast with the off-putting candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.) The vast non-racist majority of white Americans, desperately seeking that post-racial future, were attracted by Obama’s race combined with his faux moderation. They wanted to be able to vote for a black candidate to help put the past behind us.
Obama’s response to the Gates incident — immediately assuming the worst about a white police officer, immediately taking the side of a hysterical scholar of racism, and lecturing the American people on our failure to overcome our benighted past — suddenly cast into doubt Obama’s post-racial identity.
Is he, after all, one of them? One of those blacks who sees racism in every issue or disagreement? One of those blacks who strikes fear in the hearts of well-meaning, non-racist whites because he might, at any moment, accuse them of being racists because of some imagined slight? Were the associations with Rev. Wright not innocuous after all? The comment about the “typical white person” grandmother? Michele’s lack of pride in America?
Obama erred. He realizes this now. He’ll be more careful in the future. He is, after all, a great salesman, a consummate dissembler, a magnificent fraud.
But the mask slipped. We got a peek behind the post-racial facade.
It wasn’t pretty.
And some of those well-meaning, non-racist whites may be saying: This is not the Barack Obama I thought I knew.
SwampYankee on July 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Obama trips over his johnson then blames the media for pointing out he tripped over his johnson.
Bicyea on July 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Things are going to start to get really interesting since Obama has placed himself in a role for which he has longed for ever since he was a boy…the role of the aggrieved.
One common thread appears throughout Obama’s life…all his role models and all of his close associations are with those who act out based on their perceptions of being aggrieved or wronged (by guess who).
The country is going to be learning alot about Obama as a result of all this though his behavior. They’re going to be learning things some of us have already known.
OxyCon on July 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Hell, he doesn’t even read the bills/laws that he’s signing.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM
First of all, I am concerned about the welfare of this Officer Crowley. His face has been all over the media and I think it will make it almost impossible to do his job and make him a target for militant blacks.
Second, I think this could backfire on Obama. Well, he wanted an honest discussion about race, so let’s have it. I have no doubt that his words were prepared in advance, and it proves once and for all that he indeed was listening and believes the racist bile spewed by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. However, I think that there are a lot of people who are sick and tired of reverse racism. It’s just like the Ricci case where whites were discriminated against. Their case is just one of dozens out there where racial quotas have been used to discriminate against white Anglo-Saxon Protestant males who don’t get hired/promoted, even though they may be better qualified, just because the quota for whites has already been filled. And yet despite the racial quotas of affirmative action and despite all of the gains made by minorities and the financial aide as part of the Great Society, they still play the race card when convenient. You want a level playing field? Fine. No more affirmative action. No more welfare. You want to get ahead? Keep your butt in school. Stay off drugs. Get a job based on your own merit, not your skin color and racial quotas. Still can’t get ahead? Tough s***. Take responsiblilty for yourself and your own actions. Slavery ended 144 years ago. Nobody alive had anything to do with it and nobody alive lived it. 360,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to help end it. It’s time to get over it and move on.
Special K on July 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM
How about some questions for The Precedent regarding his traitorous AG Holder and the illegal dismissal of charges against the Black Panthers, who were clearly committing voter intimidation – and proudly so.
Holder should have been forced to resign the day he made his moronic “nation of cowards” comment, but his abuse of power to help the Black Panthers is far beyond the pale and warrants nothing less than his removal and subsequent investigation into his abuse of power for racial purposes.
progressoverpeace on July 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM
This story isn’t going to die of neglect. Obama could still end it by issuing a vague apology about speaking without having all the facts at hand — but he won’t. He is constitutionally incapable of admitting error.
This will cost him a lot more than many suspect, from a lot of people who might otherwise be inclined to support him.
cruadin on July 24, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Obama is giving himself a tonsillectomy…..with his foot.
thebrokenrattle on July 24, 2009 at 2:35 PM
He’s on TV now trying to put this fire out. “You have two good people. Blah, blah, blah. (Boy did I ever screw this up. I am so screwed.) Blah, blah, blah”…and mute. Sorry, I had to.
Rational Thought on July 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Keep the racism controversy going.We’re closer to a revolution every day.
Jeff from WI on July 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Obviously he cannot cover his racist attitude very well but it came out loud and clear. He got the story from his black buddy first and knew it was a white cop. What a racist our president is.
workingforpigs on July 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM
What a sick thing to say…but at least you’re honest.
beekiller on July 24, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I’m guessing someone is extra proud of BHO.
Jed_Eckert on July 24, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Glad we’ve entered the post-racial era of American politics.
hawksruleva on July 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM
I wonder if, when Obama asked someone to do something, he’d be ok if they went on a race rant.
How do you think he’d react at that challenge to his authority?
hawksruleva on July 24, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this, but I thought the “stupidly” part of Ogabe’s remarks wasn’t the most interesting thing.
What I thought was especially telling about his mindset was when he said, “Of course, any of us would have been angry…” to find a policeman at our door.
With that, our post-racial President was speaking to blacks, while assuming that everyone has a chip on his shoulder about police.
Everything in this guy’s agenda is about his racial resentments.
guntotinglibertarian on July 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I’m sure that would be Axelrod’s wish, but I doubt that’s how things will play out. Everything in America is Obama’s to command. He won’t be able to help commenting on things, in an attempt to impose his will.
hawksruleva on July 24, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Note: The “neighbor” in questions was not the “next-door neighbor” — which has been the leap of logic for most. This was a person who lived in the “neighborhood” but not next door. Not someone who “should have recognized” the man tying to force the door open.
Very important point.
IndieDogg on July 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM
You can take the man out of the goatherder but you can’t take the goatherder out of a man. You are what you are.
WHO’S STUPID NOW BAAMBI
bluegrass on July 24, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Great remarks. 2015 -150 years after the end of the Civil War. That would be a good time to end all AA, minority set-aside, income transfer (except Social Security).
We have thrived as a nation, even made the world better, from the efforts of individual Americans. We can again be the very best country in the world if we are all Americans first. Here’s to American Exceptionalism; harnessing bad social drives for the good of all.
NaCly dog on July 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Poor Lynn Sweet.
She fairly obviously asked 0bama the question that he told her to ask him.
And because 0bama let his inner (Wright-like) racist take over his mouth, Miss Sweet now has to go under the 0bama bus.
From an easy ‘set-up’ question as a favor to ‘the One’ (Marion) Barry 0Bama is now essentially saying : “That B1tc# set me up.”
Well, Barry, YOUR chickens are coming home to roost.
I understand your confusion and hurt though Mr. Precedent. All your political life the media has covered up and spun your failures as a legislator, as a leader and as a human being. And when they allow you to ‘let you be yourself’ on live TV, and it goes wrong for you, it is ‘their fault’.
And besides that, you have always been taught that when you call someone with a low skin concentration of melanin a racist, regardless of the facts, they are supposed to cower and apologize for being white. Unfortunately for you, there are a few people left in this world who still know who and what they are, and they won’t go under the bus for your greater glory.
Poor baby.
LegendHasIt on July 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Skip Gates World:
Police Commissioner of Cambridge – Black
Mayor of Cambridge – Black female
Governor of Mass – Black
President of the US – Black
Dept head of one of most distinguished universities in the world.
What am I missing here in Gates’ world? Please help with the racisim he and Obama describe to be rampant…. SICKO Save us from this low life street activist garbage…
highninside on July 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Seems to me this country started falling apart when the citizens starting referring to themselves as, “Greek American, Italian American, African American, Irish American, etc.”. Should always be foremost “AMERICAN”, and withhold the labels, period. You are foremost a citizen of this country that has continued to try and make no one group above the other. That is what these elite’s and politicians seem to miss. They make statements about losing the Latino vote, for instance. Should only have to remember to do what is right for the AMERICAN CITIZENS and stop this stupid pandering.
hillbilly on July 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Why is it black America feels it is the only group on the entire planet that have ever been wronged? Why is it these jerks get away will screaming “racism” at the top of their lungs everytime they act like idiots? Why is it the President of the United States feels the need to reinforce the notion that black Americans are so trod upon? What freakin world am I living in? Racism cuts both way Gates and Obama.
Screw you………I am a proud white American man who has absolutely nothing to apologize for….period!
dartagnansblade on July 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM
This can work both ways ladies and germs.
Fighton03 on July 24, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Drudge headline now….
HOT MESS
–nice–this has got legs…
ted c on July 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Obama blames the MEDIA? His best friends with tingly legs on the verge of Obasm on his every words? What if they want revenge after he disses them?
Wednesday night’s presser was supposed to be about health care. Obama never called on any Fox News reporters, so he probably knew the questions everyone wanted to ask. He probably knew that Lynn Sweet wanted to ask about the Gates arrest, which could have remained a minor incident relegated to the back pages of the Boston Globe if Obama hadn’t called on Sweet at the presser.
But long experience has taught Obama: when you’re backed into a corner, play the race card. ObamaCare hasn’t been playing too well in Congress lately, so it’s time to play the race card before 28 million people on TV. Then blame the media if cops in deep-blue Mass don’t like being called stupid.
If the “media” turn on him, Obama’s in BIG trouble.
Steve Z on July 24, 2009 at 5:27 PM
I only hate his Scottish half. The black half is my homey.
Ted Torgerson on July 24, 2009 at 5:35 PM
This will happen, and it will be Tolerant Left at its finest. I hope that totally innocent person is strong enough to handle the public vilification and character assassination that’s coming. I also hope they’re wealthy enough to move to a new address or at least stay in a hotel for several months.
I expect Crowley is in for it too; even the atheists among us might want to pray that there’s never been an $1100 lien against his house or anything like that. Because if there is… or if he’s got children of any description…
And of course the Tolerant Left will argue that no matter how despicably they’re attacked, the cop and the neighbor deserve it. Just like that you-know-what Trig Palin. He asked for it!
Gilda on July 24, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Obviously, Obamao should have consulted with a wise Latina before he made the statement. /s
onlineanalyst on July 24, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Hell, he didn’t even know what was written in the Executive Orders that he felt compelled to sign shortly after his inauguration.
onlineanalyst on July 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Good article:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/24/gates/
patch on July 24, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I love it! Obama has become a punchline! Fitting for a racist marxist scum.
elduende on July 24, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Just keep on talkin’….
phadedjaded on July 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM
…an angry man…
wonk-a-donk on July 24, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Sure he does…. don’t you know Obama is never, ever to blame for anything!
purgatory on July 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM
This whole thing could have been avoided if the house was broken into by a couple of white guys wearing masks like you always see in the burglar alarm ads.
guntotinglibertarian on July 24, 2009 at 7:36 PM
What a JERK!
I just heard Obama say that he DISAGREED with “some who” think that it isn’t his business to involve himself in local affairs.
FOLLOWED by him saying it is a “teachable moment” that people should get along better!
How about a teachable moment for him not to be such an unprofessional, illogical, knee-jerk racist ass!!!
And his brain-dead supporters on forums are busy saying, “Oh, yes, he handled it just right. He’s so smart, so honest, blah blah.” I would be surprised if these people could even balance their checkbooks.
Alana on July 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM
That’s horrifying. I’d rather lose than win with tactics like that.
Guess I can rule out a career in community organizing.
jazz_piano on July 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
So the bigot President blames the press! Ah, so liberal. Blame everyone else.
jerseyjoe99982002 on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM
In Obama’s words, I would say that we now know what is in the White House…………..
He said it, live on TV………….
Seven Percent Solution on July 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
It is not surprising a bit that Barry Sotero is blaming someone else for his stupid, unthoughtful remarks. No matter what situation he finds himself creating. it’s always someone else’s fault.
pitter43 on July 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM
So, the “post-racial” “President” is a race pimp. Whatta surprise.
Some people are more equal than others………..
BottomLine5 on July 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Shsss! Let him keep digging.
Geochelone on July 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Every phrase uttered by Obama is Double-Speak par excellence.
Geochelone on July 24, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Olbama would blame his mother if he thought it would pull his butt out of a jam.
rplat on July 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
FNMA FHLMC To The Rescue!
Since the government controls the real estate im rhe country, they should racially code all homes so that police know how to act (or not act) when an attempted break-in is called in.
IlikedAUH2O on July 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Backstroke!
jimbodeano67 on July 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Obama apologizes all the time when he is overseas.
TN Mom on July 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
It has begun!
Watch as the MSM gradually turns the B.O.Lovefest into a full blown Jimmy Carter-style feeding frenzy.
So how is that tingle in the leg feel now, Chris Matthews?
pilamaye on July 24, 2009 at 12:38 PM
Chrissy has already aired a segment in full support of The One. I believe one of the guests was the woman who asked the question. They launched into a talk about blacks being forced into opening trunks during traffic stops and that all blacks had bad experiences with the police. There may be truth in it. However…
Can somebody do a survey or small book about police experiences with blacks?
IlikedAUH2O on July 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
This was all about racism — Obama’s & Gates’ racism, that is. But what I can’t understand is why everyone is letting these two get away with characterizing the policeman’s actions as “racial profiling.” Stopping a black guy driving a car in a “white” neighbor when he is obeying all traffic laws is “racial profiling.” Showing up to investigate a reported B&E at a house where a black man happens to live is not “racial profiling.”
Dark Star on July 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Watch for the 4.6 million pardons He grants when leaving office.
IlikedAUH2O on July 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Put the blame on Mame, or blame it on the bossa nova, but for god’s sakes Obama, don’t ever blame yourself for the crapola that runs out of your mouth.
betsyz on July 25, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Scene I’d like to see. Thieves clean out that arrogant popinjay Gate’s house to the tune of $250,000 while the police sit and watch. When Gates comes back from vacation and complains the police can say “we thought it was you, professor.”
Memo to the burglars-don’t steal his briefcase all you’d find is a stale ham sandwich and a comic book.
MaiDee on July 25, 2009 at 12:29 AM
He’s just practicing what his Pastor of 22 years was preachin’. Where’s the surprise? I’ve known him for what he is long before this tiny tip of the iceberg.
Army Brat on July 25, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Is it wise to turn against the propaganda machines that created you?
bayview on July 25, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Nothing Barry does wrong is his fault. If you need to have this explained to you, there’s something wrong with you. There’s never anything wrong with Barry.
Loxodonta on July 25, 2009 at 2:21 AM
I have been trying to figure out why Obama’s original staged ‘stupidity’ comments at the press conference caused such a public reaction.
After all, he was mentored by Wright and most had heard Wright’s racially inflammatory preaching. Obama’s wife wrote her thesis on what I call blackitude. Black Panthers were given a wrist slap for voter intimidation, while Obama worked his overt snubs of the ‘whitey’ nations
A very perceptive friend has an answer. He said obama normally stayed out of this conversation, even while making calls for a national conversation on race. My friend said this is the first time Obama spoke for himself, instead of using proxies. He was always the friend, the student of, or the husband of the speaker. This time he made the statements and he did it on the record.
That he did it to divert from the National Health debate is no matter. It did divert attention, but the attention became a focus on Obama, who for the first time, stuck it to the man all by himself
Now that hurt. Before this, folks could make Obama whatever they needed him to be. Now he has given himself a hard definition, and it will not go away,
The more he tries to change his story, the more he reinforces the new image
My friend hit the nail on the head. Obama, the man who shot himself in the foot
entagor on July 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM
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