Defending his simultaneously stupid and racist comment about how black people are skewing the president's approval numbers, Byron York entirely misses the point:
I wrote that citing Obama's "sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are." I thought the word "overall" conveyed the idea that there was a difference between the total job-approval number and the complexities of opinion of Obama on various issues. Maybe "across-the-board" would have been better than "overall," ...
Nah. It wouldn't have been. "Overall" and "across the board" are basically the same and his idiotic point remains: President Obama is popular because he's black and so the black people are artificially inflating his numbers. And, as I wrote Wednesday night, this from a guy who never once wrote that Bush's numbers were skewed by evangelicals. Or Republicans. Or white people.