The first distraction are the comments he made about Obama in 2008, which by the way, aren’t racist:
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) apologized Saturday for referring to President Obama in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign as “light-skinned” and as having “no Negro dialect.”
The second one, which seems to be popping up in outlets like Drudge Report, is the rumor that Reid had plastic surgery:
While this is going on, the real unemployment keeps rising, the wars goes on and the U.S. government is getting further into debt. Who cares?!
But did you see that Simon Cowell left Idol?
This is pretty much in the same category of George Allen’s macaca comment.
The only difference here is which party someone making the comment is affiliated with and which double standard is being applied.
#24 – the term is “cracker”.
Bill Clinton referred to Obama should be getting them coffee. Somehow Al Sharpton thinks that’s the worse remark.
I’d say Reid’s remarks exposes the Democrats’ view of blacks. The word Negro is not that important, given his age. Bobbo is right on this point. Instead, it is his focus on being light-skinned, articulate, etc. Biden referred to him as clean and articulate. Before Reid said Clarence Thomas was not an intellectual. We are seeing a pattern of thinking blacks are dumb as a default.
Reid has added skin-whitening to the health care bill.
http://tinyurl.com/y9pphz7
Doesn’t say anything about anus bleaching.
I agree with #1. Reid didn’t say he cared about any of the “raciest” things he mentioned. He said other people do and that Obama was in a good position to deal with those issues.
Refer back to Bush and articulate. If Obama hadn’t been a great Orator he would not have been elected and if McCain had been a great Orator he would have done much better.