Well, how 'bout this for refreshing? Chris Wallace takes his own colleagues to task for twisting Obama's comments and harping on a fabricated interpretation of a sliver of a thought.
A radio interviewer in Philly yesterday asked Obama what he meant when he spoke of his grandmother's race and prejudice in Tuesday's speech:
In the speech, the Democratic candidate spoke of his white grandmother "who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."Apparently, Fox took the ball and ran with it in a ridiculous-yet-totally-Fox direction. Here's Wallace chastising the team:
On WIP, Obama said: "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society.
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