More Racism Charges From the Media

Norah O'Donnell substituted for Chris Matthews this weekend on MSNBC and held a panel, provoking questions about racism and hatred. She included many incendiary words like hate, venom, craziness, fear mongering and more.

On her panel was Joe Klein from Time magazine. In his wisdom, he said of Joe Wilson's outburst, "And the voice of the cuckoo was heard in the land." And about the town hall meetings he said, "Well I was, I was at some town meetings this summer, most recently in Arkansas. And this is an awful lot about race. You just can't avoid it. I mean he was born black. But it isn't only about the fact that he's black, or the fact that his middle name is Hussein. It's a, about the fact in middle-America among white people, especially working class white people they're seeing all of this stuff. They're seeing Latinos in Arkansas, quite a few of them, move into the neighborhoods. They're seeing South Asians, you know running a lot of businesses. They're seeing intermarriage. They're seeing all these things that they find threatening. And they believe that the America, that they knew, which was always kind of a myth, has disappeared."

The panel also included people like Howard Fineman from Newsweek, Helene Cooper from The New York Times and Ceci Connolly from The Washington Post.

The original post can be found here. It has a link to the audio as well.