On Sunday, 60 Minutes’ resident sycophant, Scott Pelley, walked former president Barack Obama through a racial landscape unrecognizable to those who know the lay of the land, especially readers of The American Spectator.
Pelley kicked off the misdirection with the question, “Did you watch the video of George Floyd’s strangulation?” Yes, strangulation. Knowing Obama’s weakness for racial scare-mongering, I was not at all surprised by his refusal to correct Pelley. He probably did not know enough to do so in any case.
“Of course,” said Obama. “It was heartbreaking.” He then blathered on about an African-American “reality” that exists only in America’s newsrooms. As to the aftermath of the Floyd death, Obama claimed to have been “heartened and inspired” by the “marches.” He offered not a single word about the stores looted, the buildings burned, the people killed. Nor did Pelley venture a single question.
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