Sen. Obama calls WIP (UPDATE: Remarks being questioned)
Submitted by jstudent on Thu, 2008-03-20 14:38. The blogs (we read most) have posted feverishly today about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) directly calling in to Angelo Cataldi’s show on 610 WIP-AM this morning.
Hear it below:
Philebrity, PhillyWillDo, PhillyGossip (who had the tip first) and The Daily Examiner had the audio clip up right away. Nod to the Examiner for noting that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) had called into Q102’s Booker Show earlier this month.
But pardon Philly EDGE for viewing all of this with a shrug because…
1 – We want to love WIP, really. But we do feel that some of its personalities helped create, and now cultivate, the image and disposition of the Snowballs-At-Santa Philly sports fan so often reported on in the media.
And there’s more to Philly fandom than that… like this. Fwiw- more than one WIP host openly suggested that A.I. might get booed; and they inferred that would be an appropriate reaction. In this case, they were wrong.
2 – It’s hard to trust Cataldi’s judgment on anything: Did anyone let the Senator in on how Angelo feels toward fellow Chicago guy McNabb?
In short, let’s hope that, if elected, Sen. Obama does a better job being president than Ricky Williams has done at running back.
3 – Sen. Obama stopped by our apartment Tuesday. Really. He filmed a commercial video prodcution downstairs. (It’s a few doors down.)
We have pictures, he sent the crowd (free!) coffee and some were lucky enough to shake his hand.
He doesn’t have to call; we get it.
We just hope the Dick Morris/Lee Atwater/Karl Rove political filth doesn't drag him down.
(UPDATE: Speaking of which, Dan Gross at the Daily News reports that the Senator's comment below is predictably being spun into invective by neo-cons, mouth-breathers and others who don’t get the point: race is an issue with some people and if you are looking for a divisive issue, you can find it:
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way.")
PS- And now, of course, Fox News is involved.
