Journalist on CBS: ‘Racialized’ GOP Opposed Obama From the Start

Scott Whitlock | December 13, 2016
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[See NewsBusters for more.] The hosts at CBS This morning on Tuesday brought on a fawning, pro-Barack Obama journalist to cement the legacy of the President. Atlantic magazine national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates identified racism as a key reason for Republican resistance to Obama. The reporter has written a piece for the magazine titled, “My President Was Black.” Talking to the CBS hosts, Coates confused the facts about Obama’s early years in office: “The President came into office thinking, you know that he basically would work with Congress.... That did not actually happen. Folks didn't even want to come to the table.” Folks didn't want to work with him? When Obama took office, he had 60 Democratic seats in the United States Senate and a solid majority of in the House.

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