Digby sheds some light on how the wingnut right is playing the race card with their latest rubber-stamped buzzword.
Of course this isn't the first time during the oil spill they've tried to do this. Remember when President Obama went "street" by using the harmless word "ass?"
In a sane world, the Republicans would lose their seat at the big boy table because of this kind of horseshit -- say nothing of their unserious, self-contradictory, opposite-day platform. Unfortunately, this behavior is considered one-half of our very serious political discourse and vital to a "both sides" and "balanced" debate.