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Electric Monk

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2. So if you read past the headline, it's actually a pro-Obama op-ed, but the headline sure got noticed

Reply to locdlib (Original post)

Sun Jul 6, 2014, 10:42 PM

Jul 2014

If the headline wasn't strange and shocking enough, the New York Post reports that the op-ed is actually a pro-Obama piece, in which Collier argues that, "far right voters hate Obama because he is black."

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I really don't have words to express [View all] locdlib Jul 2014 OP

I agree, repulsive williesgirl Jul 2014 #1

So if you read past the headline, it's actually a pro-Obama op-ed, but the headline sure got noticed Electric Monk Jul 2014 #2

Yes it's [rp Obama. Headline 840high Jul 2014 #4

Yes, of course the headline is offensive, to everybody but right wing Obama haters. Electric Monk Jul 2014 #5

That it did herding cats Jul 2014 #7

Yet it was a pro President Obama OpEd herding cats Jul 2014 #3

Context ... it's really kind of important. 11 Bravo Jul 2014 #6

Agreed. aikoaiko Jul 2014 #13

This is similar to the New Yorker cover showing the Obamas as radicals.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2014 #8

Yes, this article certainly garnered people's attention, locdlib Jul 2014 #9

This is disgusting Gothmog Jul 2014 #10

That paper should be out of business mwrguy Jul 2014 #11

I loved Jump Ship to Freedom in middle school. morningfog Jul 2014 #12

Why are you angry? It's an article about racism. frazzled Jul 2014 #14

IF you are seriously asking me that question locdlib Jul 2014 #16

That's a word too many 'christians' use during sunday dinner xfundy Jul 2014 #15