The Scalise problem and his somewhat or seemingly tenuous ties to racists points again to the biggest problem for Republicans being media bias, not perceptions of diversity, not changing demographics etc - although those two things remain problematic - and I should say I'm not quite sure why Scalise has not done the smart and honorable thing and stepped down as whip.
But that aside, forget Obama reaching out to a truly awful person like Al Sharpton - that probably isn't but certainly could be nothing more than a cynical political calculation - but simply look at Obama's long-term relationship with a person with the extreme ideological proclivities of Jeremiah Wright and how without media bias throwing smokescreens across the quite worrying implications of that relationship there's no way he could've become president - certainly a Republican with similar baggage wouldn't even have bothered to run given the shit storm the media would've sent his way.
