Comments on: Dan Rather: Obama couldn’t sell watermelons

By: Pez

Pez — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:50:07 +0000

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.

By: Bob G.

Bob G. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:01:00 +0000

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).

By: DouglasB

DouglasB — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:28:39 +0000

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……..

By: gad_fly

gad_fly — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:01:07 +0000

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. . .