Repeat after me: "Whether clueless or not, liberals can be racists too".

Look, just because a person doesn't wear white robes with white hoods, finds burning crosses appalling, would never scream the words "spik" or "nigger" it doesn't mean they don't have serious issues with people of other races.

And let's just drop the stupidity that voting for Barack Obama somehow has cured whole generations of white Americans from the transgressions of their ancestors, the upbringing of their parents and the culture of imperial white supremacy that would lead an idiot like Chris Matthews to say they forgot Barack Obama was black during an hour of great speechifying.

Chris Matthews may not be a hard-core bigot but he's a racist. Well intention in a bumbling idiot sort of way? Sure. Yet still a racist.

You know what that means? That a lot of you out there may well be one too. You look at Chris Matthews and you say, "but he reminds me of ..." If you don't get that Chris Matthews could be you, then you don't get how pervassive the culture of white supremacy and hence racism is.

Racism is a social and cultural cancer. It is because we refuse to work outside of he bounds of white supremacy that we allegedly can't find a cure. So we say racism, just like cancer, can't be cured. It just goes into remission.
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NOTA BENE from Liza : I am really excited to present Andrea Plaid, of The Cruel Secretary and Racialicious fame. I hope she makes cross-posting to our blog a habit.

By now, you’ve seen—and probably commented on--the latest cover.

The Washington Post’s and CNN’s Reliable Sources’ Howard Kurtz said: “I talked to the editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, who tells me this is a satire, that they are making fun of all the rumors,” Kurtz added. (Source)

Bill Burton, The Obama campaign spokesperson, responded: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.” (Source)

Of course, people at Michelle Obama Watch, Daily Kos, Politico, and other blogs have expressed rightful and righteous outrage over the cover.

My current live-in partner, who works at the New Yorker, just couldn’t believe that so many people responded so angrily at the cover at the Daily Kos and other sites. He “wanted to see [my] reaction.” When I emphatically told him that I didn’t find it funny, he said, “You’re so angry.”

“Of course I’m angry. What do you expect? This is my reaction is to your employer doing something so racist.”

“I’m trying to have some fun here.”

Humph, you gotta love hipster bigotry.
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Liberal cry-babies whined about Sally Fields' censored rambling at last the Emmy Awards but somehow completely overlooked the fact that hers was not the only bleeped or blacked out speech at the awards. Kathryn Hagel and Ray Romano come to mind.

Then there's Kathy Griffins' HI-lariously profane speech.

Kathy rocked the house at the 'technical' Emmys award ceremony which happened a week before last Sunday's primetime show. Did she whine about? Hell to the no.

Here she is on Larry King Live loving every moment of it :

Kathy Griffins, FTFingW!