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The right freaks out over rapper’s invite to WH (Update)
ecthompsonmd May 12, 2011

This was very predictable. Some on the right have been trying to paint President Obama with the Black Stereotype brush. Remember Glenn Beck and others have stated that Obama has a deep seeded hatred of white people. There have been several racial cartoons depicting our president as a monkey or worse. So, the fact that Obama invited rapper Common to the White House is another opportunity for the Right to go nuts about rap music… except this rapper delivers a positive message. From Media Matters: Tonight, MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur reported on the freak-out by the right-wing media, including Fox News, about the

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Bush gets high marks on Rita
ecthompsonmd October 2, 2005

Why? Why did President Bush get such high marks on Hurricane Rita? What did he do? He did fly around the country. Is flying around the country all you have to do to impress the American people? I guess appearance is everything. Watch Video: Watch CBS Videos Online From NYT: As he emerged Saturday morning from the “battle cab” deep inside the Northern Command’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, President Bush caught sight of a famous image of himself: with bullhorn in hand at ground zero on Sept. 14, 2001. At the invitation of a sergeant major in the Marines, he wrote

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