The Republican Party chairman in a tidewater Virginia community has resigned after forwarding a racist e-mail that compared African-Americans to dogs. Virginia Beach GOP Chairman David Bartholomew agreed to step aside Monday night after the e-mail, titled “My Dog,” was posted on the Internet by the liberal blog Blue Virginia, according to the Virginian-Pilot. Gary [...]
Much has been made of Glenn Beck’s statement on “Fox News Sunday” that he “has a big fat mouth” and that he “miscast” President Obama as a racist. This, of course, is because it makes for easy headlines like: “Beck Regrets Calling Obama a Racist.” Less has been made, however, of Beck’s amendment to the [...]
Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck said after his Saturday rally at the Lincoln Memorial that he regrets once having called President Obama a racist who hated white people, and said “not a chance” when asked about the notion of a Beck-Sarah Palin presidential ticket in 2012. Beck had made the statement about Obama last [...]
Salon’s Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the “JournoList” story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh’s opening [...]
A mid-level Agriculture Department official says she was forced to resign over an allegedly racist stance she took 24 years ago before she worked for the federal government. Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia state director for rural development, got in trouble over a video clip, aired by a conservative website, from a speech she made on [...]
This past Sunday, The Washington Post’s Ombudsman lamented the fact that the paper had been “virtually silent” regarding the New Black Panther story. It occurs to me that I have also failed to cover the story. As you may recall, in November of 2008, New Black Panther Party members were accused of intimidating voters at [...]
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