King Hussein Puts Foot In Mouth Over Race

The effects of being in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years has come out. During King Hussein's press conference, he made serveral uninformed comments regarding the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. He admitted he wasn't up to speed. Here's his quote:

OBAMA: Well, I should say at the outset that, uh, "Skip" Gates is a friend, uh, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. What's been reported, though, is that the guy forgot his keys, uh, jimmied his way to get into the house, uh, there was, uh, a report called into the police station that there might be a burglary taking place -- so far, so good, right? I mean, if I was trying to jigger into... Well, I guess this is my house now so --

PRESS: (laughter)

OBAMA (sped up): -- it probably wouldn't happen. (laughter) But let's say my old house in Chicago.

PRESS: (laughter)

OBAMA (sped up): Um, here I'd get shot.

PRESS: (laughter)

OBAMA: Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge Police, uh, acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that, uh, there is a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos, uh, being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That -- that's just a fact.

So last night he said if he tries to break in the White House, he'd get shot, and the cops up there "acted stupidly" in Cambridge. "I know, 'Skip' Gates. I don't know the facts." I don't know all the facts, but I know the cops "acted stupidly." So just slam police officers, play the race card and go off on a racial profiling rant. Liberalism with a touch of racial hypesensitivity. Where did he get the second component? If I had to guess, it would be from sitting in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.

Not to be outdone, here's what his wife said during a 60 minutes interview:

MICHELLE 2007: I don't lose sleep over it because, ummm, the realities are, you know, as a black man Barack can get shot, you know, going to the gas station. You know (laughs) so you know, --

I've been at numerous gas stations and never been shot. I know other balck men who haven't been shot. To suggest that people of other races would never get shot at a gas station is ignorant as much as it is arrogant. Looks like she's been drinking Rev. Wright's kool-aid too.

Then the next day, because of negative reaction and falling poll numbers, he throws Gates under the bus. Here's part of what he said:

OBAMA: -- continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Professor Gates probably overreacted as well.

With King Hussein, it's all about image and spin. (HT Atlas Shrugs (pic)& Rush Limbaugh):

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