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Forget Mehlman - what about Tony Snow
Concerning the Corker ad ….. Am I the only one in the country outraged by Tony Snow’s comment on Chris Matthews last night about African Americans always “playing the race card” in political campaigns? Talk about revealing what lives beneath your rhetoric! Coming from the purportedly “balanced and fair” WH Press Secretary, Snow’s charge that African Americans essentially always use racism as a ploy to gain political sympathy was stunning. The fact that he seemed either oblivious to the racism embedded in this belief or, worse, was unconcerned about it was the real news item in this interview and made the racist ad on which he was commenting seem almost innocuous by comparison.