And selected her out of any number of African American women due to that question.
This bombshell comes courtesy of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, which conducted an ultra-polite interview of Ms. Hart this morning:
http://v3.player.abacast.com/...
Radio Host Jacque Reid: "So they knew you were going to say exactly what you said."
Ms. Hart: "They knew I was going to say exactly what I said."
First, hats off to Ms. Reid. She was polite and professional to someone who has elicited a great deal of controversy within the black community.
What is striking to me is not Hart as a woman and her motivations etc., but Hart's utility as a means for the national media to create a meme and narrative pertaining to African American dissatisfaction with President Obama, as well as her utility in presenting a "sympathetic" face for high-income households which would potentially be subject to Democratic plans to expire Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy.
To reiterate: these people found and highlighted someone whose gripe is that her double-income household might face a standard of living downgrade or 401K shuffle in order to pay her child's college tuition bill of $50K (how many people wish that they earned that much?), keep her other child in private school, and maintain property and cars.
No disrespect intended to Ms. Hart, as she appears to be a perfectly lovely woman and she has tried to reiterate that she approves highly of President Obama and does not fault him for this lousy economic climate.
That said: I am "exhausted" and "disappointed" with a national media which chooses to present slanted analyses, memes, themes and narratives which are out of touch with the prerogatives of so many Americans.
This is reason #gazillion: don't believe the hype!
And to Ms. Hart, sorry ma'am, but you're: