Obama Picked ABC's Robin Roberts for Gay Marriage Flip Flop Interview on the Basis of Race, Softballs

Sorry Brad Watson, but as a white man who asks tough questions, you’ll never get a big exclusive interview with Barack Obama. Barry doesn’t like you.

For President Barack Obama’s groundbreaking interview on gay marriage, the White House turned to a friendly face — ABC’s Robin Roberts.
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“The White House went with Robin because of her personal rapport, their friendship, the past interviews — but also her race [African-American], even her age,” one producer at ABC said to POLITICO of the 51-year-old Roberts. “There is a very strong, very basic connection there.”

Jonathan Wald, executive producer of CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” said, “The White House is very careful who it picks for which message. Robin is universally regarded as an excellent interviewer, and she and Obama have a relationship. It’s clear that the president likes to do interviews with her.”
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But while respected inside ABC and throughout the industry as a skilled and experienced interviewer, Roberts was also viewed as a safe pick for the Obama administration, in part because she comes from the world of morning network television and rarely flexes any political muscle or attack-dog approach to journalism.

ABC knew all of this, and acquiesced to the president’s racist demand.

What a weak little man this president is. He constantly hides behind his daughters’ skirts on big issues, he’s blaming Biden for this week’s flip floppery, and everything has to be prearranged to make life easier for him. Too bad the mullahs won’t play along.