Why President Obama was asked about Gates

[Politics_Guy25]

I was going to skip posting this but I've seen many posts on DU asking why this was brought up at the primetime press conference. Here's why: Lynn Sweet (the "reporter" who asked the question) is one of the biggest GOP hacks in the national media. She was on the bitch Greta Van Susteren's show all year last year during the campaign harping about Reverend Wright and how terrrrrrrrible it was. Then, she went on Greta's show in November last year saying that the Blagiovich trial was going to bring down the Obama administration. Of course, none of what she said was true.

She is in the mold of Rush Limbaugh. That's why she asked the question at the press conference. She had a feeling that asking this question might provoke a response. Indeed, maybe she planned it. Indeed further, maybe she was put up to it?

This woman has spent her entire career trying to take down Barack Obama. Rezco is another example. Google articles that she wrote over the years about the nefarious nefarious I tell ya! (sarcasm) ties between Rezco and the president.

Plus, she knows the President very very well.

From her perspective and the perspective of her GOP masters, I have to say well played. No one ever said evil wasn't clever.

[TheKentuckian]

1. So that no matter how he answered it could be spun into a nontroversy.

There was no correct answer or dodge. No matter what was said or unsaid the response would be ginned up into the lead.

[HopeOverFear]

2. Exactly. It was intended to set him up

[Politics_Guy25]

3. And when the reporter asking it

is a known GOP hack, ginning up the response into a lead is even easier because you get to craft the question to elicit the answer that you want.

[lindisfarne]

4. Gates & Obama also know each other. One more reason to ask Obama his opinion.

It wouldn't matter if Obama was green or blue or white or black - reporters often ask friends of public figures their opinion of that person.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009524874_apusharvardscholardisorderly.html

[masuki bance]

5. Obama went to school in Cambridge for 3 years, Gates is a fellow academic

Gates and Obama are friends, Gates is scholar specializing in race relations, Sweet has covered Obama for years in Chicago.

How could it not come up?