I'm kind of confused about this post at the MediaMatters.org website.
Don't get me wrong, I do understand what the article is about "Chris Wallace criticizes Fox & Friends for 'two hours of Obama bashing'...," I "get" that, and even though I DO NOT watch "Fox & Friends," I do know they are idiots due to the clips "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" show, but here's my question.
Is what's posted at Media Matters something close to the actual "Fox & Friends" transcript, or did Media Matters (who I have great respect for) screw up and double-post or triple-post the same text 2 or 3 times, or are they REALLY that repetitive on "Fox & Friends?":shrug:
I tried to read through it, but the "Fox & Friends" people are such idiots that I couldn't follow it.
Summary: Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace criticized the hosts of Fox & Friends for engaging in "two hours of Obama bashing" and for "distorting" comments Sen. Barack Obama made about his grandmother in a radio interview on March 20.During an appearance on the March 21 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace criticized the program's hosts for engaging in "two hours of Obama bashing" and for "distorting" comments Sen. Barack Obama made about his grandmother during an interview on Philadelphia sports radio station 610 WIP the previous day.
In that interview, Obama further explained a reference he made to his grandmother in a March 18 speech on race and the controversy surrounding his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, saying:
"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, you know, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you 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. We have to break through it. And what makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling a little bit less like that, and that's pretty powerful stuff." During the segment, Fox & Friends aired a clip truncating Obama's remark three times, cutting it off right after Obama says, "typical white person," although on two of those occasions, co-host Brian Kilmeade then paraphrased the next portion of Obama's remark. Co-host Gretchen Carlson also twice falsely claimed that Obama "said the same exact phrase <"typical white person"> during the speech on Tuesday
."
Appearing on Fox & Friends, Wallace said: "I have been watching the show since 6 o'clock this morning when I got up, and it seems to me that two hours of Obama bashing on this 'typical white person' remark is somewhat excessive, and frankly, I think you're somewhat distorting what Obama had to say." He continued:
WALLACE: I've actually ... clipped it out of the paper ... and what he said was: "The point I was making was not that my mother harbors any racial animosity -- she doesn't. But she is a typical white person," which is where you generally have clipped it ... but what he went on to say is, "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 comes out in the wrong way. And that's just the nature of race in our society...."
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