Fox Nation linked to Elizabeth Gates' Daily Beast post, "What I Saw at the Beer Summit," with the headline: “Did Gates call Joe the Plumber a 'Racist'?” Gates, the daughter of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., wrote:

As soon as my father's foot crossed the threshold of the room, the storm of mediators immediately rushed to introduce us, but true to form, my father cut right through the thick tension of hurried salutations and offered the Sergeant his hand and joked, “You looked bigger the last time I saw you.” Crowley's cheeks flushed red as a smile dashed across his lips, and his young son, whose cheeks had long since flushed the same muted crimson, looked up at his father and smiled. This wasn't a family raised on hate. At that moment, right there in the library, they were just like us: a young family groomed to perfection, waiting to learn how to get those damn cameramen off their lawn and to put this sensationalized hell behind them.

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I asked my father what the President had said during their chat and as he slipped off his shoes and reclined his chair, he said: “The president and the vice president are great men, Liza. They did the right thing to invite us there to talk, but it's up to us now to extend this conversation. We have plans to meet in private and discuss things. You know, Crowley's not a bad guy. He's not a Joe the Plumber who wants to represent the Right. He would be horrified to be considered a racist.”