Wrong.

"At the moment, TV One does not plan on covering the Republican Convention," Rodgers said. "We are not a news organization. We are a television network that is designed to celebrate African-American achievement. That is why we are covering this convention.

"If Hillary (Clinton) was the nominee, we would not be covering this year's Democratic convention."

So ... TV One will be in Denver because Obama is black, right?

No.

No?

"Even though it's on a network that's geared predominantly to an African-American audience, there's something for every group that wants to watch this show," Reid said. "We are not just going to get on this show and talk about black issues. Yes, Barack Obama is the nominee, but there are several issues that black people care about."

Issues that will be made clear by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, we were assured.

The weird thing is that several of the folks involved in TV One's coverage didn't simply embrace what they plan to do but, instead, became defensive.

"As the only Republican on this panel, I don't understand why the question is not shaped that this is an American success story by a man who just happens to be black," Sheryl Underwood said. "Why do you want to talk about his blackness?"

Which was very, very confusing because it's TV One that wants to talk about Obama's blackness.

And Rodgers doesn't think there's anything unfair about covering the Democrats and not covering the GOP.

"My audience is 93 percent black," Rodgers said. "I serve my audience."

But should black Republicans feel at all slighted because there's no coverage of their party's convention?

"I speak for all eight of us. We are not slighted," said Underwood, a self-professed Bush Republican who campaigned for Hillary Clinton and now supports Obama.

The session went completely through the looking glass when Dyson seemed to suggest that those asking about TV One's coverage of the Democratic convention were somehow, well, racist.

"We see some of the problems, some of the pitfalls, and some of the possibilities reflected here today even in terms of the questioning," Dyson said. "Is Brian Williams going to have to put a disclaimer on (NBC's coverage) because John McCain is a white man? We don't even think about that."

Nobody asked TV One to put a disclaimer on its coverage. And, of course, Williams and NBC — and all the other mainline networks — will cover both conventions. Which is something they'd do regardless of the candidate's race.

TV One cannot say the same.