This is not surprising in the least:
The first eight questions for White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during his sit-down with Fox News Sunday centered on Gates’ arrests and the comments Barack Obama had made earlier in the week, when he said the Cambridge Police Department had acted stupidly.
Fox News is not the friendliest forum for this administration. And like countless other news outlets, they have been drawn to the racial and political dynamics of the president’s involvement in and commentary on the Gates issue. But the White House likely envisioned the Gibbs interview to center on the health care debate. And having that topic come up only as the tenth question of a 15-minute interview (a stimulus question was number nine) can’t be what the administration was hoping for. Fortunately for the president, it seems unlikely that the Gates story remains Topic A for discussion past this round of Sunday news programs.
The fixation on Race in the aftermath of the majority voting for a (half) black man for President, is a weak attempt by the White Right to turn back the hands of time.
As always, they rally their base through hatred and fear of an imaginary enemy – which then manifests itself into a self fulfilling prophecy.
Stop the hate, and the fear will go away.
