'News & Notes' Meets the Press
Byron York of the 'National Review' (center) speaks as he is interviewed by moderator Tim Russert during a taping of 'Meet the Press' with Chuck Todd (left) and Maureen Dowd.
Matt May, Getty Images for Meet the PressIf you listened to Friday's show and caught Sunday's Meet the Press, you might have been surprised to hear -- like we were -- moderator Tim Russert mention part of a conversation on our show about the role of race in the Democrats' bid for the White House.
Russert quoted Ron Walters, director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, who said:
"The only way that [Obama] is going to get elected ... is to try to neutralize race. And when you're talking about Bill Clinton, in so far as they try to blacken Barack Obama, what they do is play on to the divisiveness of the racial sector. ...The objective of the Clinton campaign is to make him blacker, which is to say to call out his blackness and therefore, to complicate his constituency which is predominantly white."
Go back and take a listen to the full interview.
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1:16 PM ET | 01-28-2008 | permalink
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