A Sign of Racial Progress

Politico's Josh Gerstein raises the question: Why hasn't there been more
commentary along the lines of our lead item today? (We're paraphrasing.) He
raises the obvious explanation, media bias, then offers some further
speculation:

Others say there's a larger phenomenon at work--in the story
line the media wrote about Obama's presidency. For Bush, the
theme was that of a Big Business Republican who rode the family
name to the White House, so stories about secret energy meetings
and a certain laziness, intellectual and otherwise, fit neatly
into the theme, to be replayed over and over again.

Obama's story line was more positive from the start: historic
newcomer coming to shake up Washington. So the negatives that
sprung up around Obama--like a sense that he was more flash
than substance--track what negative coverage he's received,
captured in a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit that made fun
of his lack of accomplishments in office.

"There may well be almost an unconscious effort on the part
of the media to give Obama a bit more slack because he is more
likable, because he is the first African-American president.
That plays into it," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political
analyst at the University of Southern California.

Is Jeffe allowed to say that some people in the media are hoping Obama
succeeds because he's black? Six years ago, a similar comment about
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb cost Rush Limbaugh his job as
an NFL commentator. That such statements are no longer verboten is a sign of
racial progress in Obama's America.


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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.
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