Obama's statement proves how idiotic the media frenzy over his Gates statement is

[ProSense]

Breaking

Obama makes surprise appearance at White House briefing to address Gates incident.

The President spoke with the arresting officer, Sgt. Crowley, this afternoon by phone and reiterated to him what Obama said yesterday: that from what he knows Crowley is an exemplary police officer.

Obama conceded that his comments at Wednesday night's press conference "ratcheted up" the situation.

The President also reiterated that he thinks both sides "overreacted." While he suggested that he regretted having "ratcheted up" the situation, Obama rejected the idea that he should not have commented on it because it was merely a local issue.

The President said that Crowley joked about whether Obama could get the press off his lawn.

Now what? The media are morons.

[grantcart]

1. Thanks for the update

[Inuca]

2. Now

hopefully it will die over the week-end and then we can get back to important stuff.

[ProSense]

6. That was

going to happen any way. Frankly, every time this happens, the media end up looking like hyenas fighting over dead meat.

[politicasista]

3. Kick

Good post. Obama said it best, it is a media frenzy and they are the ones with eggs on their faces. :kick:

[godai]

4. "From what he knows"??

Obama has got to let this go. Using 'as far as I know' type language just drags it on. He 'stupidly' got into this mess and it will go on a while unless he admits what I think was a mistake and big distraction that he doesn't need. His poll numbers are likely to drop. This is his biggest mistake so far.

Gates can help to resolve this by admitting that he overreacted but I'm not holding my breath on that.

Latest info is that the black cop on the scene supports the arrest (Yahoo).

[ProSense]

5. "This is his biggest mistake so far...Gates can help to resolve this by admitting...he overreacted"

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. go dai

:rofl: