Liberal Journalist Won’t Say If He Met President Obama
Though it is no secret that President Obama meets regularly behind closed-doors with high-profile journalists, The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates played coy when asked if he’s ever met the Commander-in-Chief, though publicly available records indicate that he has.
In an interview with The New Republic, Coates was asked if he thought that Obama had read the writer’s recent article calling for reparations for slavery.
“Do you know if the president’s read the piece?” the interviewer asked.
“I don’t know. I hope so. Don’t know though,” Coates replied.
“Have you met him? Do you see him ever?” he was asked.
“I can’t comment on that,” said Coates. “I’m not allowed to talk about that.”
The interviewer pressed, saying “Because I know he does meet with liberal journalists sometimes.”
“Right, right,” Coates replied.
“Alright, well I can see I’m not going to get this one out of you.”
“No,” said Coates, laughing.
But what’s the big secret?
Publicly-available White House logs show that a man named “Ta-Nehisi Coates” visited the White House twice, on Oct. 7, 2013 and on Feb. 12, 2014.
The visitee is listed in both meetings as “POTUS”, the acronym for the President of the United States. The meetings took place in the Roosevelt Room, according to the records, and a total of 13 people attended both events.
What’s more, the other visitors that attended the White House at those times are in the same line of work as Coates, who focuses heavily on issues of race at his blog at The Atlantic, and in his print features.
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