This is one of those CNN moments that makes you wonder whether any of their producers have a brain in their head. Because a New York Times op-ed writer wrote a thing that was provocative, CNN decided they had to discuss it. Here's that thing Timothy Egan wrote and then appeared on CNN to defend: The first black man to live in the White House, long hesitant about doing anything bold on the color divide, could make one of the most simple and dramatic moves of his presidency: apologize for the land of the free being, at one time, the largest slaveholding nation on earth. Let that sink in.