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Not much surprises me these days but nothing makes me shake my head more than those whose job is to inform finding hit and miss messages to spread thinking that only controversy sells.  Much like advertisers think that a good product will never reach millions of consumers unless it is attached to barely clothed women or some handsome hunk without a shirt.  Contrary to Wall Street wisdom, sex does not sell, it only directs the mind toward sex and demises the product you are trying to sell but that’s just a layman’s view and apparently it doesn't count. Take for example the recent uproar presented to us by Ed Mazza of the Huffington Post who found it important to waste ink and print room on “President Obama Criticized for 'Latte Salute' While Stepping off Marine One”.  Personally I can think of a billions things that could have occupied this space and our time better than this but then I am not the one who chooses what is plastered on the pages of so-called news magazines....

Dylan Stableford ’s article titled “Was the Associated Press transcription of Obama’s CBC speech ‘racist’?”   begins with the premises that “by most accounts , President Obama gave a fiery speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, telling blacks to " quit crying and complaining " and support him in the fight for jobs, according to the Associated Press.”   His premises could not have been further from the truth.   The speech was given in front of the Congressional Black Caucus but it was the same wording used in several other stops that day and was not particularly directed any specific group.   Don’t take my word for it, do a little research on his travels and other speeches given that day and prior days.   Mr. Stableford goes on the brief us that “on MSNBC, the African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama's speech without cleaning it up as other outlet...