Elisabeth Hasselbeck worried Obama will use N-word in speech to Congress
theGrio REPORT - Monday, Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested she was worried President Barack Obama could blurt out the N-word during an important speech like his State of the Union address.
Monday, Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested she was worried President Barack Obama could blurt out the N-word during an important speech like his State of the Union address.
Her fear comes from the fact that he recently used it while discussing the state of race in America on a popular podcast. During the conversation with Marc Maron, Obama expressed frustration that racism was still alive in the U.S.
“And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘n****r’ in public,” he explained. “That’s not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don’t overnight completely erase everything that happened 2-300 years prior.”
This sound clip provoked the panel on Fox & Friends to speculate “whether it is appropriate for the president to use the n-word and whether or not it is beneath the dignity of his office.”
Anchor Bret Baier argued that it was the president’s “prerogative to say those things when talking about racism from his personal knowledge, and it has a unique perspective, obviously, as the first African-American president.”
“I think many people are wondering if it’s only there that he would say it,” Hasselbeck replied. “And not, perhaps, in a State of the Union [address] or more public address if he’s only doing this because he’s in the — quote — podcast, that he felt safe to do it there.”
Check out Fox & Friends attempt to have a “fair and balanced debate” about whether the president should have used the n-word, above.
