The current US presidential election campaign has already gone through dozens of weird diversions and distractions. Some of these have been driven by the news media, the right wing media in particular, but a lot of it has been driven by blogs and the ill-informed, overly emotive and deliberately confrontational rhetoric of the blog owner or readers leaving comments.
The latest storm has been stirred up over remarks made by the former pastor of Barack Obama’s church. Many people were apparently offended—even though many have only heard about them second-hand, especially through partisan blogs. Now these same people are opining on Obama’s speech on race, even though, at best, many have read or seen only excerpts.
I won’t interpret Obama’s speech, though I think it was a good one. People reading this blog are intelligent enough to read the speech for themselves (there’s also a video of the speech). So take the initiative and don’t let any blogger—including me—tell you what something means. Go to the source and decide that on your own.
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