In an interview on NRA News, Media Research Center Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham leveled a very serious allegation at the supposedly liberal media: They haven't spent enough time talking about the “white girlfriends” President Obama had in his early 20s.

From Graham's May 25 interview:

TIM GRAHAM, MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: Where we have seen [David Marannis, author of Barack Obama: The Story] excerpts are in the magazine Vanity Fair. This apparently the deal he struck. That was where they talked about his white girlfriends in college. Which again you would think that would be a story that a news media that is so conscious about race seemed to not think that was an interesting development, that Obama had these white girlfriends. And how exactly would the black women feel about Obama having white girlfriends? Well they just weren't really... again, suddenly they are race neutral. They're colorblind.

Graham's chastising of the media for supposedly ignoring Obama's white girlfriends is the latest instance of a right wing fixation on the idea that Obama has never been properly vetted by the media. The truth is the fact that Obama dated a white woman was revealed by Obama himself in 1995 when he published his memoir Dreams From My Father:

“Well...there was a woman in New York that I loved. She was white. She had dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes. Her voice sounded like a wind chime. We saw each other for almost a year. On the weekends mostly. Sometimes in her apartment, sometimes in mine. You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Your own language. Your own customs. That's how it was.” [Dreams From My Father, Page 210]

The real question is who exactly -- in the year 2012 -- would consider the fact that Obama dated white women to be “an interesting development”?