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WASHINGTON -- In a country long divided by race, Barack Obama argues that Americans generally have been colorblind in judging him. Yet old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods flourish about the first black president. In Obama's first two months in office, a New York tabloid took heat over a cartoon appearing to portray the president as a monkey; a California mayor resigned after distributing a picture of watermelons on the White House lawn; and an e-mail making the rounds refers to Obama as "the magic mulatto," with exaggerated ears and nose.

Full Story: http://www.butasforme.com/2009/03/19/obama-the-insensitive-makes-a-joke-on-leno-at-the-special-olympics-expense/#IMUSObama said, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group." “He didn’t just cross the line,” Obama said. “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It’s one that I’m not interested...

Legendary stand-up comedian Jackie Mason is in full defense mode after catching flack for using what many consider to be a Yiddish racial slur to describe President Barack Obama.The 'Caddyshack 2' star referred to Obama as a "schwartza" during a performance in New York City on Thursday night, TMZ reports, infuriating several audience members and causing at least one paying customer to storm out. Mason denies the word is a racial epithet, angrily telling TMZ that it's just slang for black person. "I'm an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where 'schwartza' was used," he said. "It's...

My listeners know that I'm the father of a special needs son. Those who know me also know just how proud I am of him. He may never be able to read fluently, or do many of the things that many of us have the chance to do in life. Yet he faces each day with a sense of optimism that inspires me and causes me to be mindful of the many blessing I have to be thankful for. My current President is not one of them. Cool Brutha in Chief last night went on Leno to try to save...

Comedian Jackie Mason used what some say is a racial epithet in describing President Barack Obama during his act Friday night, infuriating at least several people in the crowd. We spoke with Mason by phone a few minutes ago, and he was outraged at the criticism, saying, "I'm not going to defend myself. Chris Rock has told a lot more jokes about whites than I have against Blacks. What about the demeaning words Blacks say about Jews?"

In the midst of a segment on Rush Limbaugh on Sunday morning's Reliable Sources portion of CNN's State of the Union, host Howard Kurtz scolded his journalistic colleagues for a remark which “totally got missed by the media,” how CNN host D.L. Hughley charged “that the Republican convention 'literally looks like Nazi Germany.' I don't understand how he can get away with saying that. I think that is an outrage.”

A teacher at Irving Middle School in Colorado Springs has been placed on paid administrative leave after she was accused of making a racial slur to a 13-year-old student. The mother of the 7th grade boy tells 11 News the teacher used the term Wednesday in the middle of class, in front of all of the other students. The student was reportedly talking to friends when the teacher repremanded him. His mom says the boy stayed through the end of class but went straight to his next class and told the teacher what had happened. The parent and her son...

Repeatedly using vulgar and racial insults, Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield argued with a police officer — addressing him as "Negro trooper" at one point — who was trying to process her on a charge of drunken driving in Glastonbury last October, a police video released Monday shows. Cofield also is heard twice on the video using the racial term "n-----." The state's Judicial Review Council released the video Monday after it found cause to pursue five judicial misconduct charges against her, several of them based on what was termed disparaging, demeaning or "racially inappropriate" language. The council has...

The British media is in one of its periodic fits of moralizing hysteria and convulsion over the fact that Prince Harry called a fellow officer a "Paki" -- a not-particularly-derogatory diminutive of "Pakistani" -- during Army training three years ago when aged 21, and long before his recent front-line service in Afghanistan. (Perhaps I could still sue someone over the fact that as an Australian in London I was frequently called an Aussie, but that's another story.)

Prince Harry has been embroiled in a fresh race row after a video showing him using racist insults was obtained by The News Of The World. The newspaper reports that the tape was made by the third in line to the throne during his Army training. It says the prince is heard calling one Asian trainee "our little Paki friend". The newspaper reported that the videotape was shot by the prince as he was about to embark on training as a combat helicopter pilot in an airport for their flight to Cyprus. Panning around the floor, over his bored or...

The mainstream media are very upset by the non-surprising fact that in a video released yesterday, Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman Al-Zawahiri called Barack Hussein Obama one of the "Abeed Al-Beit"--house slaves (singular would be Abed Al-Beit). But the mainstream media ignore the fact that Blacks are regularly called the derogatory "Abed" (slave) and "Abeed" (slaves)--the equivalent to the Arabic version of the N-word--in the everyday Arabic and Muslim vernacular. I see and hear it on the streets of Dearborn and on their radio shows here. And I've noted this on my site repeatedly over the last decade.

A Texas Longhorns team leader Monday praised the way coaches handled the dismissal of a player who posted a racial slur on his Facebook page about President-elect Barack Obama. Backup center Buck Burnette left No. 4 Texas on Wednesday for what was announced as an unspecified violation of team rules. Burnette, a sophomore, played in seven games this season. In a statement to The Associated Press, Burnette apologized and said he made a “terrible decision” to post a text message he received about Obama’s victory that contained a racial slur. Senior defensive end Brian Orakpo said he considered the dismissal...

Here is a video response to the venomous video that the opponents of Proposition 8 created.

I need some help, Freepers. I have been selling quite a bit of Sarah Palin-inspired merchandise through Cafepress since she was announced as John McCain's running mate. I am fully aware that there are people who do not feel the same way that we do about Sarah Palin, and I have no issue with anti-Palin merchandise being sold through Cafepress. That's a free exchange of ideas and opinions. However, today, I was looking through the Cafepress marketplace, and I started to notice some of the vicious anti-Palin stuff that's out there. I will not print the whole quote, but there...

H/t reader MB. Here's how Howard Fineman begins his MSNBC column today [emphasis added]: No, Barack Obama was not making fun of Sarah Palin when he talked about some Republican putting “lipstick on a pig.” He was trying to be colloquial, and John McCain’s campaign knew as much – even as it was going theatrically ballistic. To which I have a simple question: how does Howard know?

YOUTUBE VIDEO: Obama Smears McCain-Palin As Lipstick On A Pig Let let let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change too. Exce- and and so I guess his whole angle is - watch out, George Bush - except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl-Rove-style politics, we're really gonna shake things up in Washington. That's not change. That's that's just callin' sumpin' the same thing somethin' different. But you know, you can't, you know, you you can put, ah, lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. Tom Toles,...

Barack Obama stuck his foot in his mouth yesterday when he said "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig"- which the angry McCain campaign immediately denounced as an out-of-bounds attack on running mate Sarah Palin. Obama delivered the line while campaigning in Lebanon, Va., tearing into his rivals for not representing real change. "You know, you can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, "but it's still a pig." He Many in the Obama crowd cheered and leaped to their feet in delight - apparently taking the "pig" comment as a direct slam at Palin.

Hat tip “VANITY4HILLARY” at the PUMA discussion board. http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=28812 “white people do not know this but he basically was using a racial slur to white people. (most have not heard of the slur) Basically he is calling white people swine. Trust {me} I used to hear Swine everyday when it comes to whites.” RACIAL SLUR DATA BASE: http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=pig Swine: Refers to Whites -- Relates to the pink color of the pig's color. Tendency for the pig to lay in or eat anything. (Refers also to police men) Barack Obama -- the great uniter -- the post racial candidate that was...

On Shepard Smith program tonight, there was a clip of Obama on campaign trail saying this: "you take a PIG, and put lipstick on it, it's still a pig" Smith said Obama was referring to Palin in the comments. NOTE: Brit Hume said today that 3 democrat Senators , who Hume showed in a picture at Obama event are the ones investigating TROOPERGATE, which is OUTRAGEOUS...why are Obama supporters "heading up" that investigation, that is a conflict of interest. That too needs to be addressed.

Over the weekend, I noted the scurrilous claim of a left-wing blogger who “reported” the hearsay rumor that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called Obama a “Sambo” and Hillary Clinton a “bitch.” Even the nutballs at the Daily Kos deleted a posting about the smear. But it’s still out there.