Sound Bite For The Day: Martin Bashir Maxes Out The Race Card

Martin Bashir has situational concern for race. His remarks from his program the other evening:

“It also showed how political leaders could be responsible for either encouraging better race relations or making matters a whole lot worse by using cheap and nasty slurs Now listen to some of the things being said by these republican candidates.”

He mentions only Republican candidates using two instances: the deconstructed false flag of race on Gingrich’s remarks, and the CBS story of Santorum’s remark.

Where, pray tell, was Martin Bashir when Democrats said all this?

Harry Reid:

… Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he said privately.

Bill Clinton on Obama:

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

Joe Biden:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

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Or this Biden classic:

“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

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Former Klansman Robert Byrd (who participated in the record filibuster of the Civil Rights Act) dropped “n*ggers” on network television a few years ago and was defended and celebrated.

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Joan Walsh apparently believes that only black Americans are on food stamps, when in fact, more white Americans than black receive government assistance.

Nothing from Bashir on any of these instances. Bashir’s concern for civil rights begins and ends on the Democrat party line. If Bashir truly cared about civil rights, he’d be doing a story on why black unemployment is so high despite all the post-racial promise upon which this President’s campaign was built.

That progressives are once again turning to the race card highlights how dire the chances for Obama’s reelection. Tanking in the polls with abysmal unemployment numbers, it’s a Carter redux that a strategy of identity politics can’t overcome.