Mar
08
2010
Dan Rather: Obama couldn’t sell watermelons
Posted by AWB in Health & Education, Obama, Politics
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Ah, yassah, massa Radder, Isa be ahurryin up nah to vote agin Missah Prezdint Obamessiah nah, ya'll heah! Wouldna wannna hep dem evils Demygogs, no siree mammy!
An be carefil wit da seads. . .
If a Fox News person had said this, the mainstream media would have a field day. Dan Rather says it, and no one says a word……..
Doug B:
It's called a double-standard…
Everything from hiring, to schools, to criminal activity, to politics (which is akin to criminal activity anyway)…
And it is alive and well in this nation (unfortunately).
Conservatives can take a non-racist comment made by Dan Rather and construe it into some sort of persecution. Google "Dan Rather Watermelon" and you have to go 6-7 pages deep to find someone who is not talking about it. I'm not sure that qualifies as no one saying a word.
I view the comment itself as being a non-racist idiom that is a product of his upbringing and experience. For all things Dan Rather is, I doubt very seriously his interest includes hurling a racial epithet at the president.
I think the furor surrounding this is more of a comment on race than the actual comment Dan Rather made.