Today’s eye on the media segment comes to us from some of the usual suspects. I am going to venture a guess that no one would be surprised that this incident comes to us courtesy of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Mathews. The other culprit in this exchange is none other than the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s own Cynthia Tucker. For those of you that do not know the Atlanta Journal Constitution is considered by some in my home state of Georgia to be the Georgia paper of record. Of course ignore the fact that Georgia’s so called paper of record cannot be bought at any news stand south of Macon, which is roughly the middle of the state.
On August 7th Cynthia Tucker was a guest on Hardball with Chris Mathews; the subject was Obama Care and the voicing of opposition by hundreds of attendees at Congressional town hall meetings. Apparently according to Mathews and Tucker, most people don’t really have a problem with radically changing healthcare by entrusting it to the government and spending trillions of dollars that we do not have, instead they have a problem with having a Black President.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them into gurneys. Inject them with sodium pentathol. How many of them would say “I don’t like the idea of having a black president”? What percentage?
CYNTHIA TUCKER: Oh, I’m just guessing. This is just off the cuff. I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president.
Which coming from someone who has followed Georgia Politics for the last several years, it really doesn’t surprise me to hear this coming from Cynthia Tucker. It seems more often than not regardless of what the issue is, Cynthia Tucker just about always finds a way to bring race into it.
