Joe Wilson

It is about race. And I think Maureen Dowd had it right.

What Joe Wilson meant to say was: "You lie, boy!"

What is absolutely shocking to me is that no one has stepped up on the GOP side to express any form of indignation or disgust. Apparently this is now acceptable standard operating procedure.

And the media, in a pathetic effort to be objective and neutral, gives equal weight to those like the thoroughly inept and inconsequential Michael Steele who know exactly what is going on, who stand by and say nothing and then pounce with the classic Republican retort, charges of playing the race card.

There’s no “two sides” of a story with racism. People who behave badly need to be CONFRONTED with the consequences of their actions, which I why I supported any form of censure on Wilson. And on the South Carolina Republican who likened Michelle Obama to monkeys. And the many other instances of Republicans intimating racism while simultaneously denying it.

Anyone denying that the level of anger and invective directed at Obama from the right wing is race related is deluding themselves. And they are part of the problem…