A January 15 New York Times article headlined "Obama's Wife Evokes Dangers of Campaign" claimed that "[w]hen Michelle Obama addressed an audience of African-American political and entertainment heavyweights" at the Trumpet Awards Foundation, "she obliquely addressed fears that her husband's presidential run might put him in danger" and "nimbly entwin[ed] references to violence with her more usual admonitions that a history of racism and despair should not keep her husband, Senator Barack Obama [D-IL], from office."
Yet, as Bob Somerby noted on his Daily Howler blog, the article, written by Shaila Dewan, did not offer any specific quote from Michelle Obama's January 13 speech that explicitly indicated Obama had "entwin[ed] references to violence" against her husband or "evoke[d] dangers" of the campaign, and, later in the article, Dewan acknowledged that "[n]ot everyone detected a double message in Mrs. Obama's remarks." Even so, Dewan cited purported complaints by "critics" whom Dewan did not name "that raising the specter of violence is nothing more than an attempt to raise Senator Obama to mythic stature."......
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