Ah. What was that? Early 70's? (I would love to know the story line, if you're so inclined)

Hey, the Mod Squad was two white people and one black person teaming up to fight crime and save the day everyday. They didn't make out or anything, but appeared to be best buds. Can't have that, now can we?

I like that term: "race merchants".

That's the way Sharpton, Jackson, Bertha Lewis, and then entire Congressional Black Caucus should be known.

"Race merchant Al Sharpton was discovered on a Manhattan street corner today attempting to persuade a young, African-American woman to cover herself in refuse and animal feces in order to earn a few bucks and get her mom off her back".

Works for me.

Where I went to high school in the 70's it was a melting pot. Well, a self-segregated melting pot. There were haves and have nots, but they didn't skew to any race. Culturally, like races hung together, but often, through clubs and sports, those lines disappeared as well.

The Cosby Show's success and the revelation that he'd deliberately chosen well-spoken kids for the parts of his family members started getting the Powers The Be riled up. Why? The NAACP doesn't have much power when it's obvious people are moving up and they aren't dependent on them. When they live their lives, work hard, behave as individuals and gain success. So the complaints and attacks got louder. Bill Cosby was criticized for not being 'black enough'. He changed to soothe his detractors, the show changed and eventually he became a shell of his former powerhouse self.

Then Sharpton pulled the Tawana Brawley hoax and it was the beginning of the end of the racial harmony that had been evolving naturally. This was a bid for bucks and nothing more.

Now, many black leaders are aware that they must keep their people downtrodden and angry if they're going to keep making money and growing their own power. It's the most despicable thing.

I recall an episode of ER where the male black surgeon kissed the female, white, British surgeon. There was a PR landslide. All media had orgasms over it as if it had never, ever happened in the history of all mankind.

Not so. I remember several TV shows that had interracial couples in plot lines. Around that time I also watched a video of an old Charleton Heston movie called "The Omega Man" (circa 1970 approx) and his romantic lead was a black woman. Yes, they kissed and rolled around on the floor a bit but made no comment on their races because they weren't really comment-worthy. Two decades before this ER bit, it was not a huge deal to see the same thing, but they pretended it was.

The left makes money and gains power by fomenting racial disharmony and it's one of the most reprehensible things they do.

You know, I was thinking ... Teddy Kennedy, Howard Zinn, John Murtha ... three of the most selfish, destructive leftists in the US, all dead in the space of a year. People should be checking for shadows of the grim reaper behind all the corruptos in congress.

You're joking, right?

And, during her acceptance speech at the Republican convention in 2008, her teleprompter screwed up. She ad libbed through it.

And how does someone use a teleprompter to answer press questions? Scratchin' my head over that one.

Note cards are not the equivalent of the constant teleprompter. He brings it to press conferences for cryin' out loud. His biggest media supporters have commented on it.

You write that "It's the hypocrisy of Palin that is annoying." I doubt that's what you find annoying about Sarah Palin. I suspect you're one of those people who finds it hard to breathe whenever you read the slightest bit of news about her. Otherwise you'd be rolling your eyes at the idiotic hysterics on DU and DK like every other open minded person.

Palin is not a hypocrite, even though I'm sure you really, really want her to be. And notecards do not = TOTUS, no matter how badly you want that, too.

LOL. That was only a "takedown" if you're an Obamabot clinging to the last threads of "hope and change". He didn't say anything. Just insulted and blamed others. That's all he knows how to do.

Man, how brain damaged do you have to be to still believe in this guy?

Wow -- detailed, in depth, factual reporting. Well done. Why can't the recognized MSM pull something like this off? That was just a rhetorical question. I know they have no interest in factual reporting.

My mom was raised by a teen mom and a grumpy, verbally abusive, pair of grandparents during the first Great Depression and she ended up with a very good husband (50 years and counting), three kids in happy marriages with great kids, wonderful friends and memories galore. Things were not easy for her, but certainly weren't tragic either. And, to my knowledge, she's never murdered or raped anyone, as the pro-aborts are now claiming is the inevitable conclusion to poor people breeding.