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David Remnick on Charlie Rose.
David Remnick is Editor for The New Yorker Magazine and author of "The Bridge," a biography of President Barack Obama.
DAVID REMNICK: ...people see him the way they want to see him, whether it’s a question of promise or radically on the other side it as you see at the far end of the tea party movement, they see in Obama a threat to American-ness. There’s a real kind of racialist and racist tinge to the far end of the Tea Party movement. I mean there’s a completely legitimate conservative opposition I may not agree with, but there are extremists who see in Obama, because he’s named what he’s named, because he looks the way he looks, as a threat to American-ness as they understand it. And it’s very disturbing...
CHARLIE ROSE: Because they think, those on the extreme think he will change the nature of the country?
DAVID REMNICK: What’s the phrase -- "We want our country back." What does that really mean, Charlie, really? Is it about tax rates? Is it about health care debates? It seems to me something...
-CharlieRose.com
DAVID REMNICK: ...people see him the way they want to see him, whether it’s a question of promise or radically on the other side it as you see at the far end of the tea party movement, they see in Obama a threat to American-ness. There’s a real kind of racialist and racist tinge to the far end of the Tea Party movement. I mean there’s a completely legitimate conservative opposition I may not agree with, but there are extremists who see in Obama, because he’s named what he’s named, because he looks the way he looks, as a threat to American-ness as they understand it. And it’s very disturbing...
CHARLIE ROSE: Because they think, those on the extreme think he will change the nature of the country?
DAVID REMNICK: What’s the phrase -- "We want our country back." What does that really mean, Charlie, really? Is it about tax rates? Is it about health care debates? It seems to me something...
-CharlieRose.com