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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (25873)	7/14/2008 5:11:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Some just can't seem to help themselves! Talk Show Host John McLaughlin Calls Obama ‘Oreo’ by FOXNews.com Monday, July 14, 2008 Facebook Stumble Upon del.icio.us Digg Email A representative for John McLaughlin told FOXNews.com Monday that the television talk show host wasn’t using a racist expression — “Oreo” — to describe Barack Obama during an episode that aired this past weekend, but was merely summing up what he believed to be the view of Rev. Jesse Jackson. McLaughlin spokeswoman Becca Baker said the transcript shows that McLaughlin was not expressing his own point of view, but Jackson’s view of Obama. “It’s clear from both text and context that John McLaughlin is speculating why Jesse Jackson said what he said about Barack Obama. It’s Jackson’s view of Obama, not McLaughlin’s,” she said. The former Jesuit priest and Nixon administration official was asking his panel about the tense relationship between Obama and Jackson when he called Obama an “Oreo.” While also a delicious cookie, the term “Oreo” is a derogatory term used against blacks that accuses an individual of being “black on the outside, white on the inside” “Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo — a black on the outside, a white on the inside — that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for,” McLaughlin asked, according to a transcript from The McLaughlin Group, the highly-rated show that launched the shouting head-fest that embodies cable news. McLaughlin was discussing the recent Obama-Jackson clash in which Jackson was caught on an open microphone accusing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of being condescending toward black people during a Father’s day speech about responsibility. He also then said, “I want to cut his nuts off.” Jackson apologized multiple times afterward and Obama said he accepted Jackson’s contrition. In addressing the panel, McLaughlin said Jackson may be angry about Obama potentially replacing Jackson as a civil rights speaker, a position Jackson has fought for in speeches and past election runs throughout his career. A Gallup poll out Monday shows 29 percent of blacks named Obama as the leader they would choose to discuss racial issues, with Jackson at third with 4 percent. Al Sharpton was listed second with 6 percent. Another exchange on the show tried to define Obama as a politician. “He will do whatever is necessary to win,” McLaughlin said, while one of McLaughlin’s guests said Obama is a “practical politician” trying to win the election. Two of the panelists did scold McLaughlin for the epithet. elections.foxnews.com