reverse racism as something that s true, something that s likely when in fact it is something that is much more on the order of a martian standing on st. charles avenue. well, here s the president talking today about the issue, about agriculture secretary tom vilsack on abc this morning. let s listen. notice the issue he doesn t bring up. he jumped the gun partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on youtube or a blog and everybody scrambles and i ve told my team and i told my agencies that we have to make sure we re focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. we have to take our time and think these issues through. that is a president saying, in answer to my question, it s a media story, it is not a race story. that was his way of saying it wasn t it? a big story when the white
media story. it means our government, our political organizations is still assuming media means something came from a kind of vetted set of sources that an editor took a look at. that sort of thing. it is about race in this sense. if i called up hardball and said here i am in new orleans. i have a video of a martian on the corner of st. charles avenue. you would say, really? breaking a story about a martian would be exciting, you would assume it s not true because you know that martians are a myth. the fact that when someone said i have a video clip here of reverse racism in action that so many people immediately believed not only that it was true, but that it was likely tells us that the right has really won in defining reverse racism as something that s true, something likely, when in fact, it s something much more on the order of a martian standing on st.
something much more on the order of a martian standing on st. charles avenue. here s the president talking about the issue on tom vilsack on abc this morning. let s listen. notice the issue he doesn t bring up. he jumped the gun partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on youtube or a blog and everybody scrambles. i ve told my team and my agencies that we have to focus on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. we have to take our time and think these issues through. that is a president saying in answer to my question it s a media story. it is not a racist story. that is his way of saying that, wasn t it? this became a big story when the white house acted the way they did. firing the woman without due process, without hearing her side of the story, without looking at the tape.