President Obama‘s comments about people disliking him for his race set off quite the media frenzy, and on Monday the hosts of The Five took on the comments, largely rolling their eyes at the idea Obama’s problems have anything to do with race. Dana Perino and Andrea Tantaros credited Obama for at least admitting there are people who give him the benefit of the doubt because of his race too, but they still found it striking why Obama had to go to the race argument at all.
Greg Gutfeld dismissed the whole premise, saying “his failures know no pigment.” Eric Bolling and Perino picked out other parts of Obama’s interview that bothered them; the interviewer not asking about income inequality and Obama saying he doesn’t just want to be a president “on a list,” as if any other presidents did.
On the race remarks, however, Tantaros said, “Be honest for once! Be intellectually honest! He always goes right to the race piece out of the gate.” She said Obama “always goes there” because “he can’t possibly believe” that his bad poll numbers might have to do with his overall performance.
They were far more positive, however, regarding what Obama said about the drug war, which Bolling called “the most honest part of that section.”
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