The press conference was about what you’d expect: Obama trying to sell the public health care reform (which Ambinder notes, he has subtly begun calling ”health insurance reform”) ahead of his self-imposed end-of-summer deadline for a bill from Congress. But Obama was surprisingly candid in his response to a question about the Skip Gates incident.
To which Adam responded:
Reporters are going to act like this was a “betrayal” of a post-racial promise Obama never actually made.
Which reporters? Actually I think a lot of reporters worship at the altar of Obama (an altar I myself frequent, tickets are on-sale now!) and there will be a loud chorus of media outlets who support his statements.
Or ignore them.
Serwer is just being salty.
Yep, here it is, courtesy of Kit Seelye, who shouldn’t have been allowed allowed to write about race after this 2007 article:
Although, to be fair, she’s only hinting at it.
I think more irritating is the NYT headline that followed this typically thoughtful answer to the question w/the headline “Obama Calls CPD Stupid” or something terse to that effect.
Yeah, Prez resorts to name-calling! Awesome.
So far I have not heard the ‘betrayal of postrcialism’ in the headlines, but I will give it some more time.
And Leigh, considering the quality of NYT headlines that deal with Obama and blacks in the past, I was actually pretty satisfied with what they wrote
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Oy!
Wondering if you all saw this:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106936583&sc=fb&cc=fp
Sgt. Crowley teaches racial profiling and diversity classes at the police academy.
The key to success in life is having low standards
lol; that’s very sad, actually.