Dan Rather Watermelons

Redefining "Racist" in the Rather Complicated Age of Obama

Keli Goff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Keli Goff

I would agree with Mr. Rather on one point he attempted to make in defense of himself. I do think that the media is complicit in getting the story of race in the Age of Obama wrong.

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Watermelons, Washington, and What We Call News Today

Dan Rather | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Rather

On the Chris Matthews Show, while talking about Obama and health care, I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It's an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Texas. I'm sorry people took offense.

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