Shocker.
Via Washington Examiner:
President Obama isn’t taking exception to comedian Larry Wilmore’s use of the N-word during his speech at the White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday night.
Instead, the White House appears to be offering a tepid endorsement of the way Wilmore used the racist term.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said he had talked to Obama about Wilmore’s use of the word and said the president told him “he appreciated the spirit of Mr. Wilmore’s expression Saturday night.”
“I’m confident that Mr. Wilmore used the word by design. He was seeking to be provocative,” Earnest said. “Any reading of his comments made clear that he was not suing the president as a butt of a joke.”
“This is a tough assignment,” Earnest said of Wilmore’s job, which was to follow the president at a dinner where comedians are “going to get much closer to the line than they ordinarily would.”
Wilmore, host of Comedy Central’s satirical news program the Nightly Show, set off a social media uproar with his several of his race-tinged comments during his remarks Saturday night.
“Yo Barry, you did it my n—-a,” Wilmore said to Obama at one point at the close of his remarks.