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More Racial Idiocy

[NOTE: This post has been Updated, twice]

Every time I see another charge that one or another of McCain?s ads is racist for making fun of Obama as an empty-suit celebrity or calling attention to his woeful lack of experience or accomplishment (this amounts to calling him ?uppity,? it is said), I think these ridiculous, overly sensitive politically correct objections can?t get any dumber.

But they can, and do, as evidenced by this new bottom-scraper from Time?s Karen Tumulty.

According to the clear implications of her complaint, Obama should be immune from criticism for taking advice from former Fannie Mae chairman Franklin Raines because Raines is black. Apparently criticizing one black man, Obama, is bad enough, but criticizing two of them in one ad is, well, beyond the pale.

Byron York quotes the Obama campaign?s criticism of this ad as

another flat-out lie from a dishonorable campaign that is increasingly incapable of telling the truth. Frank Raines has never advised Senator Obama about anything ? ever....

York then quotes several Washington Post articles that mention Raines? close association with the Obama campaign and the absence, to date, of any retraction or correction of those articles.

UPDATE

York now notes that the Washington Post is taking McCain to task for relying on ... the Washington Post.

UPDATE II

Instapundit asks: ?if Obama is President, will Time regard every criticism of his administration as racist??

Probably not ? only the ones that it regards as effective.

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).