JUST CURIOUS: Most Embarassing Obama Coverage Ever?

By Nazneen Patel April 29, 2009 6:15 pm

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Look. I work the daily news grind for a living so I definitely understand the need for a little irreverence every now and then. It can be refreshing to put together a funny, light-hearted piece of content. Hell, I’ll even settle for just some straight-up feel good news some days.

But CNN…….. I’m hot with embarassment over your latest effort to connect to an audience that has only become relevant to you since the election of a Black president.

But you know what, I’m not even going to do my usual rail on this video…

YOU look at yourself and let me know what you think about this ridiculousness.

WATCH IT HERE:

**Listen carefully for the soundtrack to the segment – T.I. & Jay-Z’s “Swagga Like Us”. Can you say WOOOOOOOWWWW???***

CLICK HERE for the post on HuffingtonPost.com with the full intro.

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  • 7-29-2009 2:35 pm

    oh well, if you are black, you are a basketball player, you dance like MJ, smoke weed, and can dazzle all the ladies with your verbalization and 10″ wanker! I tell ya! I would rather goto comic con than to a dance! I’m black and i get more racists remarks from black people than whites! ( Of course the whites just won’t tell me what they really are thinking, they usually fu’ck up and tell me on the backside of their comments or actions)! This report on CNN, gets viewers and advertisers! and thats whats it all about in the world of News Television Media baby! at any and all cost! If it sells ads! run it!

  • 6-16-2009 9:19 am

    personally being of African Moor and spanish blood… I see nothing wrong with the piece…she as happy as he is just talking about Obama….

  • 6-14-2009 12:12 am

    Not all whitepeople are racist and liars just 99.99% of them are.

  • 6-4-2009 8:13 am

    She definitely played herself but the black anchor kind of led her into it and encouraged it. What was up with her hunching her shoulders, rocking and hand gesturing in the beginning? She def showed her racist side.

  • 5-30-2009 12:46 pm

    What annoyed me was when she told him he was laid back and cool. I hate that term; “laid-back”.

  • 5-29-2009 2:24 pm

    I watch CNN like some people watch BET; to say that CNN hasn’t “cared” about our race until the nomination on B.H.O. seems irresponsible to some degree.

    When CNN aired this, it was difficult for me find the perfect racially charged vocabulary word on it to fit my interpretation- then I realized that the piece isn’t racist.

    For the first time in a long time our race can celibrate the winning side of the equation and now it’s our responsibility to foster the learning curve of those who do not understand what makes the president so likable.

    CNN could have helped by:
    -not spelling “swagga” like they were spelling “nigga” with the double-G’s followd by an a

    - not interrupting the male anchor with M.I.A.’s chorus; the song could have waited until the piece was about over

    - conditioning the white female anchor to the piece that she was about to report. Her giddy attitude and admission that she “loves doing these pieces” is the same intrigue that many white women have with the blk race- and by labeling the blk man as the facilitator that drives the cultural trends, they are intrigued by the blk male….

    as flattering as that last statement could have been, this is the same intrigue that causes them to blame us for every crime that they don’t want to claim responsibility for…see: “The Black Guy Did It”

  • 5-27-2009 10:30 am

    the white lady didn’t portray a good look for whites in this clip. she was uncomfortable acting like, “she could be down with the brotha!” talking about this topic at hand. she’s so called immitating black culture in what she see’s some of us as blacks do, so freaking sad. this should make some of us not even allow ourselves to be seen like this.

  • 5-21-2009 6:23 pm

    Well I must say, the video was not racist from my point of view; it was merely observing facts of cultural attitude in the president. No president before this time has been a freeman as Obama is. What I mean by free is that Obama is doing Obama, with all the cultural, ethnic and black characteristics without care or concern for the opinions of others. Look around you at corporate blacks, they lose what I call the drum in their voices and attitudes. Yes I said drum, our rhythm, lanquage, customs and attitudes, in order to survive in the corporate world. But here is a blackman, half blackman, half whiteman, whatever you want to call him who has taken the attitude that the presidency is just a job that won’t last more than 8 years and he’s not sacrificing the person he is to do it. And he did the same thing in the Senate! So we need to laugh and rejoice, because we have finally seen black is not a negative and does not need to be altered or changed in anyway to be successful.He’s also shown us that if you have a plan, keep your ducks in a row, you can do you and do any job you want to do. That goes for men and women of color everywhere. I think that lil thingy is called INTEGRITY, supplemented by a huge portion of honor.

  • 5-9-2009 5:12 pm

    Lmao, to u too “naughtynonos”.
    Y’all got good humor.Highest sign of intellect in my book.

  • 5-9-2009 5:10 pm

    lmao, ” BlackCherry1000″!
    The chest bump was over the top goofiness.
    Not racist, just hilarious.
    T.J. initiated it. If anything he’s at fault for revealing too much.lol

  • 5-5-2009 6:21 pm

    OHHHHH. DID YOU SEE THAT WOMAN’S BODY LANGUAGE. THEY WAY SHE WAS DOING HER HANDS. SHE WAS A RAPPER OR SOMETHING, FOR A MOMENT. SHE HAD HER HIP-HOP HANDS UP. LOL. I DIDNT EVEN WANNA SEE THE REST.

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