Guess our Obama story had legs after all
Yesterday we questioned Barack Obama's reference to his grandmother being a "typical black person," during an interview on 610 WIP, and doubted the story would have legs, but wondered "if Hillary Clinton referred to a 'typical white person, would we ever hear the end of it."
Yesterday
» READ MORE: we questioned
's reference to his grandmother being a "typical white person," during an
» READ MORE: interview on 610 WIP
, and doubted the story would have legs, but wondered "if
referred to a 'typical black person, would we ever hear the end of it." Well
» READ MORE: our story
took off, being covered on
» READ MORE: Politico
and traveling to dozens of other blogs before landing on Fox News Channel and MSNBC later in the day. Obama himself appeared on CNN with
last night to
» READ MORE: defend the remarks
.
did a terrific job wrapping up the story and the controversy in
» READ MORE: today's Inqwaster
, but the best published report on our item was courtesy of
» READ MORE: Phawker
where
says that "We like ourselves some
. When we wanna know what anchorbabe is nailing which weatherman, or how much this or that C-list celeb tipped at Susanna Foo, we go to Dan Gross. But dude is WAY out of his element when attempts to tackle the double-hazard of race and presidential politics. His find-the-cheap-sensationalism-at-all-costs approach to journalism serves him well as a tabloid gossipteer, and that’s all well and good for SH-- THAT DOES NOT MATTER" ...All [Obama] asked, is that YOU be as honest about race as he is being. And Dan Gross responds with same old useless ‘gotcha journalism...Shame on you, Sir. Shame on you."