Oh Joe, why oh why would you set yourself up with such a stupid slant? Have we lowered the National testing standards for white kids because the Asian kids are smarter? Have we removed gym class because the black kids were more athletic then the others?
YES THAT’S HOW F*CKING STUPID YOUR STATEMENT WAS JOE WALSH- PB/TK
‘Is Donald Trump’s standard lower than Barack Obama’s?’: CNN panel goes off the rails – Sonam Sheth March 29 2017
A CNN panel on Wednesday devolved into yelling when political commentator Angela Rye confronted right-wing radio host and former congressman Joe Walsh over a tweet he had posted on Tuesday, saying, “We LOWERED the bar for Obama. He was held to a lower standard cuz he was black.”
Walsh’s tweet was in response to a comment Rye had made during another appearance on CNN, in which she said that former President Obama “had to be the next best thing to Jesus,” an apparent reference to what she believed was an impossibly high standard that Obama was held to.
Walsh, after telling Rye that “no politician can be compared to Jesus” and that the bar was lowered for Obama, said, “Obama’s blackness protected him. Liberal white guilt wouldn’t allow criticism. He was held to a lower bar.”
When Walsh’s tweets were brought up during Wednesday’s panel, he doubled down on his claims.
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