Monday morning quarterbacking apologists.

Ezra Klein found Brit Hume's statements offensive, but gives Harry Reid a pass: "I'm trying really hard to understand why Harry Reid's comments about Barack Obama's electability were offensive."

A commenter responds:

You're trying hard? Try harder, because you're not trying if you can't realize that it is quite creepy, and especially, for a white person, to talk about degrees of black skin color. Would it have been okay for him to use the word "octoroon"? He sounded like someone from apartheid days of South Africa. He sounded like a creep. And "dialect"? What an idiot. He meant cadence or accent.

Posted by: truck1 | January 11, 2010 10:20 AM |