Hoodwinked: Obama Did Not Write His Race Speech |
We had been told he crafted it himself |
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Editors published 12/19/2008 5:10:00 PM
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Source: Helping to Write History Eli Saslow , Washington Post
Referred by: Groping With Racism's Legacy James Taranto , WSJ.com
We were told that Obama wrote his Philadelphia race speech himself. (Remember the one during the Reverend Wright episode?)
It turns out that the Washington Post knew better and decided not to tell us until after the election. The LA Times actually lied about it.
One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau [the guy caught groping a cardboard cutout of Hillary] and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes -- "It would have been a great speech right then," Favreau said -- and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday.
"So," Obama told Favreau afterward. "I think that worked."
It also turns out the LA Times lied to us in their article Obama's Lincoln moment
Never before has a candidate for national office spoken so frankly about race in America.
It was all the more remarkable because, while Kennedy presided over what may have been the greatest speech-writing team in electoral history, Obama -- like Lincoln -- wrote his address himself, completing the final draft Monday night.
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