Yesterday's shameful meltdown in the Recommended Diary list needs to be revisited.
The diarist in question asserted that a Clinton surrogate made a racial attack on Barack Obama.
The real quote from Andrew Cuomo is below. His statement was not in reference to Barack Obama, but instead refers to the way that politicians are able to bob and weave at a press conference, when compared to intimate meetings with constituents on the ground.
Mr. Cuomo, as far as I can determine, does not appear to have any capacity, official or non-official, with the Clinton campaign, although he endorsed her early in the cycle and, I presume, remains a supporter.
Question: "You know I’ve said this on my show before, I think the American people are very lucky to have most these candidates, the major party candidates, I think they’re all quality people, they have disagreements, but they’re all quite talented, and I think the people of Iowa and now New Hampshire really have allowed the rest of America to see much of this because I think to their great credit it requires politicians to kind of get down, not kind of, get down in the grassroots, I think I heard John McCain say he had something like 110 community meeting before the primaries - fabulous - you know, I wish we could see that here in New York."
Andrew Cuomo: "You know I’ve spent a lot of time in other races, especially in Iowa and in New Hampshire, back with Gore and back with Clinton. Those races require you to do something no other race does, you know, and I like it, and I agree with you, it’s a good thing.
"It’s not a TV-crazed race, you know, you can’t just buy your way through that race ...It doesn’t work that way, it’s frankly a more demanding process. You have to get on a bus, you have to go into a diner, you have to shake hands, you have to sit down with ten people in a living room.
"You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference, you can’t just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you saying answer the question, you know, and all those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.
"And I think it’s good for the candidates, I think it makes the candidates communicate in a way that works with real people because you know in a living room right away whether or not you’re communicating, and I think the questions are good and I think the scrutiny is good, so you can, you can say they’re small states and they get a lot of attention -- they are very good for the process, I believe that."
Perhaps what the diary entry intended to express was an opinion that the so-called "Team Clinton" is racist, or uses racially-tinged tactics in its campaign.
However, after numerous requests in the body of the diary entry -- and hundreds of comments from Daily Kos community members in meltdown over Racist Hillary Clinton -- the diarist refused to correct the material.