Meme Watch: Everyone’s Talking About A ‘Negro Dialect’

Hey, have you heard? Back in 2008 Senator Harry Reid lauded then-candidate Barack Obama for being a “light-skinned African-American with no negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” This is one of many interesting bits of information coming from Game Change, a new book that chronicles the 2008 presidential campaign, by John Heileman and Mark Halperin released today. Given the vast amount of coverage, one would think this is the story of the year thus far, at least evidenced by the following video montage:

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