In an effort to tamp down the controversy surrounding a recent tweet, the Republican National Committee deployed its resident black media spokesman for an interview Wednesday on MSNBC.
Orlando Watson, who was hired in October to serve as the RNC's "Communications Director for Black Media," said during his appearance on the cable news channel that a tweet sent out by the organization last weekend praising civil rights icon Rosa Parks for "ending racism" was nothing more than a typo.
"And talking about a typo and a tweet, it's old news," Watson said.
When MSNBC host Thomas Roberts asked if it was "defensible" for GOP governors to reject the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, Watson took aim at President Barack Obama's own record of helping the black community.
"What I don't find defensible is after five years of, you know, living under President Obama, you know, he has little to show for what he's done for the black community," Watson said, before claiming that the health care law has "particularly" hurt the jobless rate in the black community.
Oh, well then, let's take a look at the jobless rate under other Presidents.
Wow, Reagan must have really hated black people. And hey, it's almost like black unemployment has roughly been double that of white unemployment for more than a generation. Apparently, that didn't matter until Obama came along.
And yes, black unemployment was pretty ugly in 2011. In 2013, it's a lot better.
In fact, since Obamacare became law in 2010, the black unemployment rate has in fact dropped to 12.6% in August when it was over 16% in 2011. It's 13.1% now, which is still nearly twice as much as the overall rate, but no, Obamacare has not raised the black unemployment rate.
So yes, Watson's an idiot.
"So yes, Watson's an idiot."
ReplyDeleteNope. He a propagandist. He's sold his soul to his Galtian Overlords for money.