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Why ABC's Robin Roberts Got the Exclusive (ABC producer: Obama chose her because she's black)
Politico ^ | Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Dylan Byers

Posted on 05/09/2012 5:33:37 PM PDT by kristinn

For President Barack Obama’s ground-breaking interview on gay marriage, the White House turned to a friendly face - ABC’s Robin Roberts.

She’s a respected journalist who knows both Barack and Michelle Obama well, isn’t regarded as a difficult “gotcha” interrogator, and whose own identity - and shared love of sports with Obama - was a key factor in the decision to grant her one of the biggest gets of the president’s time in office, according to insiders at ABC and elsewhere.

“The White House went with Robin because of her personal rapport, their friendship, the past interviews — but also her race [African-American], even her age,” one producer at ABC told POLITICO of the 51-year-old Roberts. “There is a very strong, very basic connection there.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; homosexualagenda; obama; obamagaymarriage; robinroberts
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1 posted on 05/09/2012 5:33:50 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

The Left knows that Black people and African people (on the global scale) are going to be the hardest nuts to crack. They don’t buy into this gay marriage BS.


2 posted on 05/09/2012 5:38:56 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: kristinn

So that’s how it works? Obozo calls up ABC and says send over Robin for an “interview”?

Really? ABC is now admitting they are at the beck and call of the White House??


3 posted on 05/09/2012 5:39:58 PM PDT by GRRRRR (He'll NEVER be my President, FUBO! Treason is the Reason! Impeach the Kenyan)
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To: kristinn

Interpretation for the rest of us: She got the interview because she’s a black Obama ass-kisser.


4 posted on 05/09/2012 5:39:58 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: kristinn

*AND* I hear she wears comfortable shoes.


5 posted on 05/09/2012 5:40:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: kristinn
So Obama has just proved he's a racist and probably a gay one at that.
6 posted on 05/09/2012 5:41:11 PM PDT by tobyhill (Conservatives are proud of themselves, Liberals lie about themselves)
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To: kristinn

Robin Roberts...

Black and gay of the weird mullet hairdo in her early years when I saw her on WGA TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswn26oznYI

A perfect sounding board fo JUG EARS


7 posted on 05/09/2012 5:48:35 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: tobyhill

I have always appreciated that Obama never pretended to be president for white people; he has an inferiority complex around them, and sticks to the margins for adulation.


8 posted on 05/09/2012 5:53:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: dennisw

She has a couple o’sisters and they all slobbered over Hussein in ‘08. It was sickening.


10 posted on 05/09/2012 6:09:24 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (One Nation Under God..."There I said it" ... Great One...)
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“Mr. President ... when did you first realize that you were the first and best hope, not just for America for all of mankind?”

“Well, Robin, my, my, my, I, I, I, I ... when I considered writing my first book about myself, when I was a youngster in Indonesia (Woof! Ha ha ha) well before I started meeting imaginary girlfriends, to be truthful—I can be perfectly honest here right?

(Robin nearly breaks her neck nodding)

“Let me be clear and let’s make no mistake about it:
All I expect is for others to get on their knees and worship me.”
“That’s not asking so much, is it?”

“No sir!”
“So when did you realize you were some sort of demi-god, immortal entity, like Hercules?”


11 posted on 05/09/2012 6:16:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (Put some ice on it Dick. La Raza is looking for a good lobbyist.)
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To: Mountain Mary

God willing Moochi and Bammy are out come Nov 6th. Then we will have chaos until January 20th when the Republican gets sworn in.


12 posted on 05/09/2012 6:23:11 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: SoFloFreeper

Duh, does that mean what I think it means?


13 posted on 05/09/2012 6:27:36 PM PDT by old school
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To: kristinn; All
Use to be into magic as a kid,was pretty good,I know the art of misdirection.

obama knows the the art of of misdirection also,but he is no magician and he sucks as a President!

14 posted on 05/09/2012 6:29:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: GRRRRR

They may as well admit it.

It’s the truth.


15 posted on 05/09/2012 6:32:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: kristinn

Ms Roberts must like being used, then discarded. Much like a condom I guess.


16 posted on 05/09/2012 6:33:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“The White House went with Robin because of her personal rapport, their friendship, the past interviews — but also her race [African-American]...

...so they are saying that the President of the United States is a...naaaaah.

17 posted on 05/09/2012 6:34:33 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: tobyhill
So Obama has just proved he's a racist and probably a gay one at that.

Well, really more confirmed it.

18 posted on 05/09/2012 6:38:34 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: txhurl

barry looks way to comfortable in that picture.


19 posted on 05/09/2012 7:51:17 PM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: kristinn

Robin Roberts used to be a sports announcer on TV in Atlanta Ga.


20 posted on 05/09/2012 7:56:29 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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