Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100723:23:17:00
It distracted from health care. now we have shirley sherrod and her story has distracted from this huge wall street reform bill. it was signed this week. and the unemployment compensation being freed up for the jobless. it's astounding. race keeps haunting the president. he has to be the visual embodiment of racial change. he does that. when it coming to talking about it, it's caused him trouble. >> professor, you have the luxury of not being here in washington right now. i say this because i want to ask you a simple question, was this a story about race or a story about the media? >> it's a b...