Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Media plays race card non-stop, Barbara Walters on The View asks if racism will play a part in upcoming presidential campaign

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Does Barbara Walters know Obama was already elected president and before that to the Senate?

5/29/12, "First Lady: Racism is still an issue in America," Washington Examiner, C, Spierling

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First Lady Michelle Obama appeared on "The View" this morning and was asked about racism in the upcoming election.

"Do you think that racism is going to play a part in this campaign?" asked host Barbara Walters.

"You know, racism is still an issue in this country," the First Lady answered. "But I'll tell you right now, Barack Obama is president of the United States. And he's done a phenomenal job. And this country put him in office."

"And they will again." interjected one of the hosts."...
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Local PBS radio host suggests US military veterans are racist, wonders if more support Romney because they're white and he's white:

5/29/12, "David Sanger on Post-Memorial Day Politics," WNYC Radio, Brian Lehrer Show

In the 10AM hour WNYC's Brian Lehrer interviewed "David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, WNYC contributor and author of the forthcoming book, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power." They discussed presidential politics. At about 10:20 Lehrer says a new Gallup poll is out showing Romney has a 20 point lead over Obama among US (military) veterans. He says to Sanger,
  • "Does that reflect (Romney's) military policy

Sanger answers it's "a little of both."



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