President Barack Obama used his final press conference of 2014 to play a racist, sexist game of calling on only white women reporters. Was he pandering to a coveted Democratic Party voting bloc that supported Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections?
At the beginning of the press conference Obama noted he had been given a ‘naughty or nice’ list of reporters to call on by his staff. Obama called on seven white women in a row to ask him questions.
April Ryan, a Black woman who is the White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks forced Obama to go off script and call on her as he was trying to wrap up the press conference and leave the podium.
(Ryan is also the author of the forthcoming book The Presidency in Black and White.)
The seven white women Obama called on were Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown, the AP’s Julie Pace, Bloomberg’s Cheryl Bolen, McClatchy’s Lesley Clark, Reuters’ Roberta Rampton, the Wall St. Journal’s Colleen Nelson and the Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin.
The Democrats were reported to have a problem with white women voters in the recent midterm elections that saw a historic drubbing for Obama and the Democrats.
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Thanks, kristinn!
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“...The Democrats were reported to have a problem with white women voters in the recent midterm elections that saw a historic drubbing for Obama and the Democrats.”
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Kristinn, you nailed it with that connection. EVERYTHING is politics with this regime.