At the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held on Thursday, September 27, 2012 during the MRC’s 25th anniversary gala, one of three nominees for “The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity.”
Piers Morgan: “Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse?”
Actor Morgan Freeman: “Made it worse. Made it worse. Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party. Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.’”
Piers Morgan: “But is that necessarily a racist thing?”
Morgan Freeman: “It is a racist thing.”
— CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, September 23, 2011.
