Obanma can't sell watermelons !

[wetibbe]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dan Rathers Obama Can't Sell Watermelons Comment Ignored in Most Press: Rather Explains Watermelons
Huffington Post finally printed the story - but it's Dan Rather's story, and he was allowed to publish his version without posting the video. Very un-HuffPo-like. See video below.

Former CBS news anchor, Dan Rather, told a Chris Matthews panel that President Obama "couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him a state trooper to flag down the traffic." Matthews was on-point - everyone is wary of Rather these days...tried to break in and stop Rather from slitting his throat the full 360 degrees, and in doing so, soiling the Matthews charm, but alas, if you listen closely enough you can hear it all. It doesn't get much better than this: Matthews desperately trying to keep his Black president from being slayed with watermelons.

Didn't find this in the NYTimes, or NYPost, The Washington Post, the Boston Herald or The ChicagoSunTimes. Maybe it's there but a search at each site did not show the story.

Rather, in his HuffPo piece laments that this is "what we call news today." Of course, had any conservative news personality, retired, fired or not, said this, it would have been the HuffPo headline of the day, and stayed above the fold for a few more.

There are some hard-hitting questions on the blogs about this incident - the two best: Flopping Aces asks "what about fried chicken?" Moonbattery asks: Did you say watermelons?

The Lonely Conservative isn't asking questions. She's explaining:


Dan Rather tried to explain something we all know - Obama is an ineffective leader....But for me the only thing that coms to mind when hearing Obama and watermelon mentioned in the same breath is watermelon Marxism, which is green on the outside and red on the inside.
Here's the video, and the fact that it has gone viral, Rather blames on the "cable echo chamber."He points out that he has just done a segment on the "travails of Afgahn women," which he should know does not interest his Leftist female peers in the industry. The only thing missing in this confessional is the count of the many Blacks he calls a friend.





Dan Rather and Chris Matthews: Obama can't sell watermelons (video)

http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/...termelons.html

[ilbegone]

It was probably a glitch - Rather might have blurted out that Obama couldn't sell pencils on the corner during this recession, or even that Obama couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fist full of hundred dollar bills, but to toss a watermelon into the spiel is a great faux pas violation of political correctness.

I believe Rather leans way too far to the left to purposefully slam Obama in an obviously racial manner.

I don't get it.

Almost everyone eats watermelon, fried chicken, and some form of genuine barbeque, but why does mention of any of it in conjunction with a black person (or racial mixture thereof) constitute instant racism?

Instant racism, sounds like some store bought crap destined to be tossed into the microwave for immediate hate mogerer seeking gratification.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

What Rather was implying is that the right would use these sort of references. Rather was thinking them, but stating that those sort of references would be used by the right to attack Obama in 2012.

Rather put his foot in his mouth and bit down hard. But no one seams to be looking for the bit marks, because the liberal media will put a bandage on it to protect themselves.