EmanuelCleaver http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7245/all en Great Minds Think Alike, and So Do Liberal Times Columnists Frank Rich and Charles Blow http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/great-minds-think-alike-and-so-do-liberal-times-columnists-frank-rich-and-charles-blow <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Charles Blow on Saturday: &quot;Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill&#039;s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It&#039;s enough to make a good old boy go crazy.&quot;Frank Rich on Sunday: &quot;The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House - topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman - would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Great minds think alike, and so do liberal Times columnists. This weekend, Charles Blow and Frank Rich tackled the same subject (Obama-care) from the same angle (Tea Party opposition is based on racism, not health care concerns).<br /><br />Let's start off on Sunday, with the always over-dramatic former drama critic Frank Rich, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html?ref=opinion">The Rage Is Not About Health Care</a>."<br /><br />After a crack about "perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner," Rich got serious, or what passes for serious with him:</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/great-minds-think-alike-and-so-do-liberal-times-columnists-frank-rich-and-charles-blow" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch CharlesBlow EmanuelCleaver FrankRich Gaffes JohnLewis liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias Obama-Care Racism Spit TeaPartyProtestors TimesWatch Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:33:00 +0000 admin 7462 at http://archive2.mrc.org