Monday, November 10, 2008
News Gawker names Tennessee Obama column the country's most racist
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM
In what is widely considered a colossal display of bad taste, Murfreesboro Post columnist Stephen Lewis has compared Barack Obama's ascent to the presidency to the "movin' on up" jingle from "The Jeffersons."
Both Romenesko and Gawker have called out Lewis on his idiotic column. The Gawker post also alludes to a similar though unrelated display of alleged racism toward Obama, this one with Georgia roots.
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