txradioguy
03-20-2012, 03:28 PM
Can you imagine the outrage if in 2008 someone asked the crowd at a McCain-Palin campaign event, "Do you really think our country is ready for a black first lady?"
According to Politico, on Monday, with Michelle Obama present at a New York fundraiser for her husband, actor Robert De Niro asked attendees, "Do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?"
"Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?" De Niro asked a star-studded crowd gathered in the backroom of Locanda Verde, a restaurant he owns on Greenwich Street in TriBeCa.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "No!" as De Niro quickly added, "Too soon, right?"
"Too soon, right?"
Politico's Jennifer Epstein noted that the attendees included Beyonce, her mother Tina Knowles, Star Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Gayle King, Angela Bassett and Ben Stiller.
They probably also think it's "too soon" for another white first lady.
Of course, the reference here is that they all want Michelle Obama to have four more years in this role therefore mitigating the inherent racism on display.
But just imagine what would have happened in 2008 if this occurred at a McCain-Palin event. Or if someone at a Gingrich-Romney-Santorum fundraiser asked, "Isn't it time for a white first lady again?"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/20/robert-de-niro-do-you-really-think-our-country-ready-white-first-lady#ixzz1pgeXwA4T
According to Politico, on Monday, with Michelle Obama present at a New York fundraiser for her husband, actor Robert De Niro asked attendees, "Do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?"
"Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?" De Niro asked a star-studded crowd gathered in the backroom of Locanda Verde, a restaurant he owns on Greenwich Street in TriBeCa.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "No!" as De Niro quickly added, "Too soon, right?"
"Too soon, right?"
Politico's Jennifer Epstein noted that the attendees included Beyonce, her mother Tina Knowles, Star Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Gayle King, Angela Bassett and Ben Stiller.
They probably also think it's "too soon" for another white first lady.
Of course, the reference here is that they all want Michelle Obama to have four more years in this role therefore mitigating the inherent racism on display.
But just imagine what would have happened in 2008 if this occurred at a McCain-Palin event. Or if someone at a Gingrich-Romney-Santorum fundraiser asked, "Isn't it time for a white first lady again?"
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/20/robert-de-niro-do-you-really-think-our-country-ready-white-first-lady#ixzz1pgeXwA4T