Soup Fan Anthony wrote:
This whole notion of misquoting is moronic. As if the difference between the words "intelligence" and "talent" removes the ignorance from North's words.
SFA, the North controversy no longer focuses on the largely semantic distinction between "talent" and "intelligence", as Hawkeye makes clear in another thread:
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Some of you know that on Friday I called a few local reporters. One of them just called me back and we talked for a little while.....This reporter (and IMO likely others) have spoken in detail with PA about the specific quote Mike made about Obama. I was told the quote from the transcript was to the effect of (and I'm paraphrasing) "The Black community wants to claim Obama as their own, but he gets his talent from his white side too". This context completely changes the tone of the statement in my opinion.
Since Agase apparently won't even play the North tapes for reporters, though, there's no way to verify the veracity of the above account.
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