Ferraro: All black journalists are surrogates for the Barack Obama campaign.

[rainbow4321]

Another one that will..just...not...go...away.


http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/05/ferraro-at-it-again.html

The National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement today blasting a remark by Geraldine Ferraro that suggested African-American journalists were surrogates for Barack Obama.


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In an on-air interview with Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith, Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate, implied Saturday that all black journalists were surrogates for the Barack Obama campaign.


"If you have conference calls with these people every week and you give them your message and they put your message in the paper, that to me is a campaign," said the country's first female vice presidential nominee.


Ferraro cited The New York Times columnist Bob Herbert as an example of black journalists as the arbiters of misogynist attacks against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Have you read Bob Herbert recently in the past six months? There wasn't one column that had anything decent to say about Hillary," Ferraro said.