Thursday, July 3, 2008

Cooper's CNN Producer Warns of Racial 'Knife' Fight on Obama

On CNN's AC-360 blog, Anderson Cooper's senior producer Barclay Palmer conflated Karl Rove's critique of Barack Obama and Don Imus's latest racial radio flap into a racial knife fight: "anyone who thinks that Obama’s presumptive victory in the Democratic primary means we’re in a post-racial America might want to think again. Race will play the falling knife in this… race. And you can bet your country club membership, we’re just getting started."

[I now suspect he's right - but pay attention going forward to which side keeps bringing up race...]

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