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Wow.

Who put the sand in Wallace’s shorts?

He has been combative all morning. Now, he is interrupting Mara to the extent she can’t even make her point.

Juan Williams on FOX - everyone was playing the race card in the Shirley Sherrod incident for their own political purposes.

The discussion over the firing of Sherrod and the WH's sensitivity about not being seen as a black President versus a President who happens to be black had me screaming at the screen. Britt Hume failed to mention the Officer Crowley incident where Obama pulled the race card without knowing the facts. He said the police acted stupidly and talked about how people like him are abused by the police.

"I should say at the outset that Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here," the president said. "I don't know all the facts." He said the initial situation – in which police were called after seeing someone attempting to enter the house in an unconventional way – was fine.

"I mean, if I was trying to jigger into - well, I guess [the White House] is my house now, so…" he said, prompting laughter. "It probably wouldn't happen. But let's say my old house in Chicago. Here, I'd get shot."

"My understanding is, at that point, Professor Gates is already in his house," he said. "The police officer comes in. I'm sure there's some exchange of words. But my understanding is, is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped.

"Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that," Mr. Obama continued. "But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."

It is the WH that has been pulling the race card time and again, especially now in the runup to the midterms. Obama has already said he wants to reconstitute the coalition that got him elected including Latinos and African-Americans.

"Who put the sand in Wallace’s shorts?"

Did you see his face when Dean blamed the Sherrod fiasco on Fox News? He got fired up then, and never backed off.