It really has been amazing to watch Obama's media cover for the lack of diversity in his cabinet picks.
A fine example of this hypocrisy came on CNN's State of the Union Sunday when host Candy Crowley actually began a segment on the subject by asking her guests, "Does it matter?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CANDY CROWLEY: There is a lot made about the president's latest picks in the cabinet. Jack Lew, Senator Hagel, Senator Kerry in key positions here. Treasury, defense, state department. Something that your colleague Congressman Rangel said about the lack of diversity in the cabinet thus far. I'm sorry. Yeah, he said, “It's embarrassing as hell,” his words. “We've been through all of this with [2012 GOP presidential nominee] Mitt Romney. And we were very hard with Mitt Romney with the women binder and a variety of things. And I kind of think there's no excuse with the second term.” He was talking about where are all these, and there was a White House cabinet picture, a photo that went out and it was kind of astonishing in its white male variety. First of all, does it matter?
Does it matter?
Throughout 2012, Americans were bludgeoned on a daily basis by people such as Crowley about the so-called Republican war on women and how the GOP was the party of white men.
Crowley herself said to Newt Gingrich last May, "Most people do look at Republicans going ‘They’re a conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect Big Oil.’"
Now that Obama is appointing almost exclusively white men to serve him in his second term, skin color and gender no longer matter.
As we've seen, Obama can do whatever he wants and know that his lapdogs in the media will fully support it.
Must be nice.
