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Obama's journalistic supporters live in a bizarre alternate reality in which a politician's actual words mean nothing. When the president says something foolish and offensive, he didn't say that. Meanwhile every comment from a Republican can be translated, through a process of free association, to: "We don't like black people."
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That seems to be a pretty fair representation of the approach of some journalist to the GOP convention. By yelling race they hope to shut down any criticism of Obama. Perhaps the appropriate response should be, "We didn't say that. Someone else made that happen."
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