Not just because she’s black, but that was indeed one of the criteria they used in choosing her. They also chose her because she was a ‘safe pick’, that she wouldn’t press Obama too much on his answers. And more:
POLITICO – “The White House went with Robin because of her personal rapport, their friendship, the past interviews — but also her race [African-American], even her age,” one producer at ABC said to POLITICO of the 51-year-old Roberts. “There is a very strong, very basic connection there.”
Jonathan Wald, executive producer of CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” said, “The White House is very careful who it picks for which message. Robin is universally regarded as an excellent interviewer, and she and Obama have a relationship. It’s clear that the president likes to do interviews with her.”
By giving the interview to an African-American and Christian — two groups whose opposition to same-sex marriage has been significant — the White House may have been aiming to make Obama’s announcement more palatable to groups that differ with his support for gay marriage. (Christianity has long played a central role in Roberts’s life — she has credited her success to her parents’ emphasis on the three “D’s”: Discipline, Determination and “De Lord.”)
But while respected inside ABC and throughout the industry as a skilled and experienced interviewer, Roberts was also viewed as a safe pick for the Obama administration, in part because she comes from the world of morning network television and rarely flexes any political muscle or attack-dog approach to journalism.
Libs are treating this decision by Obama to support gay marriage as if it’s a huge decision that changes the world. They act as though they can’t see Obama playing any politics, as if this was a deeply sincere decision he just happened to make on the day after a bad election for Democrats. Even Clay Aiken finds comfort in the president’s new found love for same-sex marriage.
It’s pathetic. I feel like we’re back in 2008 where people are wearing hope and change glasses and kissing the ground Obama walks on.