Answer: Who is Sam Donaldson, Alex?

You wouldn’t be doing this to me if I were black, Sam!

Reporter dares ask Obama question at a “press conference” closed to questions, liberals go batshit. ”Would a white president have been heckled this way?”

I suppose the idiot MSNBC commentator could be too young to remember the battles between Sam Donaldson and President Reagan (although he looks plenty old enough to me), but shouldn’t someone who claims to be a political pundit have at least a dim knowledge of events that happened in 1980?

“This is just so unprecedented and outrageous, that you have to ask the question, would the right-wing president [sic]  be doing this if we had a white president there?” MSNBC guest and Democratic strategist Julian Epstein said on the channel this afternoon.

“I think it’s a vert important question because I think this is the first African-American president [ he thinks?] . We’ve never had a white president been told by the opposing party [sic]  to shut up in the middle of a major address to the Congress. We’ve never had a president like this [like what?] heckled so disrespectfully. We’ve never had this otherness afforded to any other president [ WTF?  and I think the right wing has some explaining to do because to me it's patently obvious," he said.

The question, by the way, asked while Obummer was announcing his new amnesty plan for illegal aliens, was "is this the right thing to do for American workers?" That question went unanswered.

UPDATE: Here's how to answer an awkward question without resorting to the race card:

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