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November 06, 2008
Election 2008
Enjoy the next 4-8 years of white anchors asking black guests about "race"

New York Magazine is worried about satire's chances of survival in a post-Bush era.

People, people, people. If all that satirists had to mock was whites and their reaction to a black president, satire would be safe for a thousand years. Stick your toe in the water and watch Tavis Smiley's appearance on Morning Joe yesterday. Obama wasn't president-elect for eight hours before Smiley was asked if America was finally "post-race."

Joe Scarboroush pointed out that Obama and Colin Powell were not, uh, black-black because their black parents were immigrants, then Mika pointed out that Michelle Obama was black-black because her parents weren't. (We're paraphrasing).

Also, is it us, or did Joe seemed a little too excited when he whipped out his Detroit AA graduation rate statistics?

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