abuse problems, mental health problems, they re victims of abuse often, and the reaction is to put them in prison. we ve seen that, certainly in the marissa alexander case. you know, one of my favorite moments this week at the height of the whole conversation about the gag reflex was the craig paul cobb, who is the racist who discovers that he s 14% black. if you have not seen this, it s worth just pausing and taking a look at this. 86% european and, uh what is it? give it to him! 14% sub-saharan african. wait a minute, wait a minute. hold on! you have a little black in you. so i you know, adam, i
ugh. i m sorry. i just had a conventional reaction. no, folks. let s be clear. cohen is specifically saying today s gop is not racist. therefore, it s not racist to gag when you see an interracial couple. a racist would actually throw up on them. and that was stephen colbert weighing in on the controversy this week over the washington post columnist richard cohen and the famous line about new york s soon to be mayor bill deblasio and wrote people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of new york. the horror.
the campaigns can spend it like money after it goes through a somewhat complicated conversion process. travelers, beware. the foreign industries of several countries are warning their citizens to avoid certain american cities. among those on the hit list, new york, especially tourist hot spots like times square and the statue of liberty and don t go to harlem or central park at dark. warn the french. canada s concerned about miami where the citizens, quote, been the victims of crimes uss such as break-ins, assaults and pick pocketing have they not seen their own mayor of toronto? now, germany has a more general warning. keep your clothes on. now, they say on their website, nude bathing and changing clothes at the beach stirs up public agitation and can lead to unpleasantness. all right. well, that s this week s fyi. next, when s up with the gag reflex?
the president is kind of starting behind in that negotiation. to susan s point, i think what this ensures is that the affordable care act is going to have a pretty messy first year. they might not get as many young people into the pool as they would like to have gotten in, which means they might not have the depressing effect on insurance rates as they would like to have. it might be kind of problematic year as they try to get into that. whether it puts it at risk i m not sure but it s messy. i want to ask about the controversy over richard cohen s commence in a column where he said, and it was probably not well written, that s their defense but people with conventional views must depress a gag reflex when considering a mayor elect of new york, a white man, married to a black woman
in tuesday s column, new jersey governor analyzing the christie landslide re-election, he wrote, today s gop is not racist then goes on to say people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor elect of new york, a white man married to a black woman with two biracial children. joining me now. michael smerconish. i got a call you want to go at this one. go at it. i read the criticism before i read the actual column. i was appalled, there s that critical line of he speaks conventional views needing a gag reflex with regard to an interracial couple. when you read the entire column as you mentioned, tamron, he s trying to analyze what becomes of a chris christie candidacy in