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To: Sully- who wrote (59623)	6/6/2007 5:21:49 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

NBC Showcases Obama Blaming Bush for Black Despair Back to 1991 Media Researcg Center Touting it as "some unusually direct talk today from Democratic candidate Barack Obama on the issue of race, something he rarely focuses on in his speeches," NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Tuesday decided to showcase a clip of Obama delivering a standard liberal critique of President Bush for not spending enough federal money on social programs. Williams relayed how "Obama said the Bush administration has done little to address what he called 'a quiet riot' of discontent and despair among blacks in this country, one that erupted in L.A. 15 years ago and has been building again since the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina." In the clip, NBC viewers heard Obama issue the hardly unusual liberal talking point that "this administration was color blind in its incompetence" before he avoided holding those in question responsible for their own plight: "All the hurricane did was make bare what we ignore each and every day, which is that there are whole sets of communities that are impoverished, whole sets of communities that don't have meaningful opportunity and don't have hope and are forgotten." [This item was posted Tuesday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ] mrc.org