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Rachel Maddow: Media Coverage Of Obama’s ‘Stop Complaining Speech’ Undermined Positive Message

by Frances Martel on Sep 26, 2011 • No Comments
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama delivered a speech at a Congressional Black Caucus event asking for his support to pass his much-touted jobs bill, where he asked of the crowd to "stop whining" and get behind his proposition. The "stop whining" soundbite made the rounds in the media, of course, as a rebuke of...
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Maxine Waters: ‘I Don’t Know Who The President Was Talking To, We’re Not Complaining’

by Zara Golden on Sep 26, 2011 • No Comments
California Congresswoman and former Congressional Black Caucus chair Maxine Waters has been critical of President Obama's approach to unemployment, particularly within black communities where the rate is nearly double the national average, and she found it "curious" that President Obama would call on CBC members this weekend to: "Shake it off. Stop complaining. Stop grumbling....
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Rep. Maxine Waters To Tea Party At Heated Town Hall: ‘Go Straight To Hell’

by Frances Martel on Aug 21, 2011 • No Comments
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters is touring the country with the Congressional Black Caucus this month, and it is becoming increasingly apparent she has taken upon herself the mantle of representing the Congressional hard-left, making a splash this week by quipping that she and her constituents were "getting tired" of the President compromising, and following up...
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NYT’s Apology For Tea Party Racism Accusation Not Enough For Breitbart

by Frances Martel on Aug 3, 2010 • No Comments
A few days ago, the New York Times ran a correction on an article about the Tea Party. In it, they note that there is no proof that Tea Party supporters shouted racial epithets at Congressman John Lewis. Another feather in the cap of Andrew Breitbart, surely, but one news outlet for him is...
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Robert Gibbs Gets Foreman Grilled Over Congressional Black Caucus

by Tommy Christopher on Mar 11, 2010 • No Comments
Since taking office as the United States' first black president, Barack Obama has taken pains to maintain the perception that he's post-racial, that he's everybody's President, while taking criticism that he hasn't done enough for black Americans. His meeting today with the Congressional Black Caucus, the source of much of that criticism, was the...
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Black Caucus Seeks to Ease Radio’s Woes

by By ERIC LIPTON on Dec 2, 2009 • No Comments
The caucus is pressuring the White House to address the way the financial crisis has hurt minority-owned businesses, most notably a troubled New York City-based broadcaster.

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