L'Affaire Breitbart

Earl, hold on to your hat there while I fan you off. You are making waaaay too much of the Andrew Breitbart tape doctoring affair. While no one would argue that he did wrong via some crafty editing, the bottom line is that Shirley Sherrod did say those things and may have some racist blood cells circulating through her system, like just about every other breathing, living being on the planet. If people would just stop being so politically correct, there'd be a lot more laughs around here.

Besides, if Breitbart wanted to call out the NAACP for racism, heaven knows he didn't need to pick a virtual unknown like Shirley Sherrod; he already had plenty of ammo waiting for him. He could have picked from among some of the shining stars in their midst like Al Sharpton, for the Tawana Brawley affair, Louis Farrakhan, for the "Judaism is a gutter religion" affair, and Jesse Jackson for just about anything else that those two haven't covered. Yet no one ever hears anyone at the NAACP calling them out after their blacks-only radar has gone off, though I will stand under the window at headquarters to check on any changes.

The funny thing is that if Obama had been George W., then people would been chanting and rallying racism from high and low. And George W. probably wouldn't have fired her, either; he would have rebuked her or given a gentle reprimand. While Sherrod did wrong, she also owned up to it and tried making amends.

And that's more than can be said for the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost of the NAACP.