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Posted on 10/15/2003 4:40:24 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. If you'd like to suggest a question for the White House, submit it to WorldNetDaily's exclusive interactive forum MR. PRESIDENT!
By Les Kinsolving
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about President Bush's reticence to meet with representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP.
Reporter April Ryan of the Urban Radio Network was energized by WND's question and assisted in challenging McClellan on the issue.
WND: The AP reported from New York that Kweisi Mfume said that while President Bush can cross oceans to meet with black leaders in Africa, he has refused to meet with the NAACP's leaders ever since he became president. And my first of two questions, is this refusal because the president realizes that the NAACP is really a Democrat Party front group?
McCLELLAN: Look, the president meets with African-American leaders all the time. He believes in reaching out to –
WND: He hasn't met with them.
McCLELLAN: He meets with African-American leaders all the time –
WND: Not the NAACP.
McCLELLAN: – from religious leaders to others. He met with Rev. Jackson and the head of the Congressional Black Caucus at the Urban League. He spoke to the Urban League; he met with the Urban League.
RYAN: They said that was not a meeting. They said that was for those people in that picture. That was not a meeting.
McCLELLAN: Can I finish, please? He spoke before the Urban League and met with African-American leaders at that event. So he meets with African-American leaders all the time.
RYAN: They said that was not a meeting. They were requesting at that time a meeting –
McCLELLAN: Do you want to finish, Les?
WND: I'll always yield to my dear friend here (Ryan).
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WND noticed a bulletin board in the White House pressroom with nominations scrawled on it. Leading contenders include: Stonehenge, the Quarry, Hoffa's Final Resting Place, the News-Free Zone, the Briar-Liar Patch, Death Valley and Montezuma's Revenge.
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WTF is an "African-American leader"? How does one go about certifying the legitimacy of an "African-American leader"? How does one define an "African-American"? Do all "African-Americans" follow "African-American leaders"? Why don't we hear about "European-American leaders", or "Asian-American leaders" or "American-American leaders"? Do "African-Americans" even need leaders? Can't they think for themselves?
I smell an agenda, here, and I don't think that agenda really benefits the average "African-American"...
Bingo.
Methinks Mike you need to read this again. BTW, If i were McClellan, I would have said "That's right. The NAASCP (S is for "some") is a 'Rat front group.
BTW, didn't he appear in front of them during the 2000 campaign? And didn't they basically sit on their hands?
Kinsolving basically said that the NAACP was the "defacto" leadership of black America - which is furthest from the truth. The question implied that the Administration was not meeting with that "defacto" leadership, and implied alterior motives to that "fact."
This is not the first time Kinsolving has tossed questions that other liberals in the press corps have siezed upon to further a liberal agenda at the expense of the Administration.
He needs to show me more to prove that he's not full of used food.
:-/
By that standard, the president would never meet with journalists.
The key statement. W doesn't suck up to Kweisi. I say let Kweisi whine. He hasn't done a thing to improve the status of Black people, and if they still want to vote the way he tells them to, so be it.
Neither party has anything to gain or lose by courting Kweisi.
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