WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 09: U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama addressed the joint session to urge passage of his national health care plan,…
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Loading ...Two pieces from reasononline.com argue that being angry at a president is an American tradition. (See previous posting, “Is anger at Obama based on his race?”)
Steve Chapman reminds us of some of the hateful accusations that occurred when George W. Bush…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman asks his readers what grade they would give the media for the way we cover race relations in America? And we’re wondering what grade you’d give the local media in covering race?
In Friedman’s commentary leading up to that…
(3 votes, average: 1.67 out of 5) Loading ...Colleague Doug Wong wondered in a blog post earlier this week if some members of the media were using the race card too much concerning criticism of President Barack Obama’s policies. Specifically, Moore noted Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Color of Change-led advertisers boycott of Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News apparently hasn’t led him to soften his views toward President Barack Obama and his administration. On Monday, Beck was on offense again.
The group launched the boycott after Beck…
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The Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog is reporting the identity of the person who created the Obama-as-Joker/Socialism poster image. The person or persons who took that image and put up posters around Los Angeles remain anonymous.
Top of the…
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Posters have been popping up around Los Angeles that depict President Barack Obama as the Heath Ledger version of the Joker in the movie “The Dark Knight.” Under the Obama as Joker image is the word “socialism.”
The poster campaign is…
(4 votes, average: 1 out of 5) Loading ...White House spokesman Robert Gibbs indicated this morning that President Barack Obama was pretty much done talking about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. But it turns out, the president had more to say. Obama made an impromptu appearance…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Does President Barack Obama regret weighing in on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.?
A reporter asked Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs that question this morning, and got an indirect answer. According to the Associated Press, Gibbs “told reporters that the…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The latest New York Times/ CBS News poll reports that the public thinks race relations in the United States have progressed under Barack Obama’s presidency
A story in the Times reports that “two-thirds of Americans now say race relations are generally good, and…
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