This is a "trick" that is employed by people like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly quite frequently. Most free-thinking people already know that both of them - and many other Conservative pundits, talk-radio prattle-heads, writers, and TV personalities - are dyed-in-the-wool racists. But, they will always leave that tiny amount of "wiggle-room" in order to spin themselves out of any trouble.
"But, I have black friends!"
Our latest example is Bill Cunningham:
On the October 20 edition of Clear Channel's The Big Show with Bill Cunningham, guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said of former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama: "[H]e's clearly for the color of the man and not the character." Cunningham replied, "Great comments, and if Obama was white as chalk, do you think that Powell would be endorsing the Democrat? He didn't endorse [Al] Gore, he didn't endorse [Sen. John] Kerry. I think color trumps everything in his mind." Peterson responded: "That's right, because if it was about what Barack Obama stood for, then he would have endorsed Gore and all those guys, but he did not. You know, it's so sad, my friend, that most black people today are racist. Not all, not all -- but most of them are racist."
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