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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

Shep Smith sons some herb...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 13 2008, 6:00 AM ET Comment

I was glad to see this. I think the power of media is, all-around, overstated. I don't think media had any love for Al Gore in 2000. They clearly had love for McCain that year, but it did nothing. I think the liked the Obama story--but one shouldn't misconstrue that with liking Obama, per se. "Obama felled by Rev. Wright" would have worked too. That said, it is a bad idea to go to war with media when you've got a VP nominee like Palin. Has anyone been watching her interviews? Whenever I hear someone using too many words in a sentence, I think they're trying to distract me while they slip their hand in my pocket. Or they're just lying. Anyway back to the mud-hole Shep Smith administers...




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