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Hooray for Chris Wallace

It's time to be grownups. All of us. To stop the petty bickering and sniping and tackle the snowballing problems the dawn of the 21st century has brought us (with a lot of help from radicals on all sides).

So when, in David Gergen's words, "Barack Obama spoke to the American people like grownups" about race, it is time to respond with genuine national dialog about race and truly begin to get his divisive bigotry behind us.

One of Obama's lines was: "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

And when, the next morning, "Fox and Friends" began running, out of context, a clip of Obama describing his grandmother as "a typical while person" Sunday anchor Chris Wallace came on and took them to task. The clip is worth watching:

Labels: Fox, Obama, race

posted by DanZ @ 5:16 PM