Hurt’s opinion-driven pieces about the White House are often linked by Drudge; his column after last week’s elections only mentioned the Democrats’ victory in NY-23 as an example of the “Kool Aid” some liberals were drinking.

And then there’s the, err, racism:

This is, in Republican circles, fairly uncontroversial stuff. Liberals don’t take it very seriously — the racist Southern wing of the party started seriously jumping ship in 1964, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and “the party of Barack Obama used to be racist” is not that compelling a message to black voters. But Zak, who is not shy about handing over a business card and talking about his qualifications, managed to convince the RNC that he was the man to make this case on the party’s Website.

Another Zak email, illustrative of the “Democrats are the real racists” line:

“It seems to me that President Carter got a lot of criticism when he was president,” said Blunt. “I guess they were offended by a white man in his 50s.” Conservatives, said Blunt, “can’t be intimidated” by those sorts of attacks.

“Do we still have racism?” asked Huckabee. “Yeah! Of course we do. But that’s not what this discussion over health care or over foreign policy is all about.” And he talked for about three minutes about his own racial tolerance.

“For me, personally? Who appointed the first African-American attorney general in my state when there was a brief vacancy? Who had more African-Americans  in my cabinet, and in my staff, than even Bill Clinton or Jim Guy Tucker did? Who got 48 percent of the African-American vote, as a Republican, which is unheard of? I’m especially offended.”

Watch it:

Now, the GIMF has released a new document written by Ben Williams, titled, “Obama, What’s Up?” During his essay, Ben Williams referred to Obama as “Kunta Kinte” and accused him of “forgetting about the black man… Do you remember who Kunta Kinte is now, Mr. Hussein Obama? …This is you, Mr. Obama, who has failed to understand the true mentality of racism.” Ben Williams also suggested that the recent peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland was tainted by racism as well: “We have not forgotten that Annapolis is the same town where Kunta Kinte was sold! It is a symbol of slavery and evil.”

So Obama’s disparaged for being black even as Williams calls Obama the real racist. Who knew al-Qaeda watched so much Glenn Beck?

Maybe DHS only wanted limited comments, because it originally planned to stop accepting them on Sunday, according to Wendy Sefsaf at Immigration Impact, the blog of the Immigration Policy Center. The agency has extended that deadline to Wednesday.

Sefsaf also reports that the DHS Website’s comments last week were “being filled up by the same template xenophobia that plagues so many of the comments section of online newspapers and blogs all over the web. At best, the comments are tinged with racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. At worst, the comments are totally irrelevant to DHS’s goals for which they are seeking comment.”

Immigration Impact is encouraging people with different perspectives to get involved. You too can participate by clicking here.

The NRCC is sending out a raft of releases to local media in Massachusetts — targeting, among others, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) who represents Cambridge.

The point here isn’t Capuano — his district is one of the most liberal in the country — but that the GOP is searching for issues that can recapture conservative Dems and independents by portraying the president as a cop-bashing liberal.

“Does Michael Capuano believe President Obama’s comments were becoming of someone who holds the highest office in the land?” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain.

I was just on a call with Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) in which Thrush asked the minority leader to weigh in; Boehner declined and said he only knew about the case from “newspaper reports.”

Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women. As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of Americans.

Buchanan’s role as the last really unreconstructed racist in American public life has been a fascinating sideshow to the seemingly inevitable Sotomayor confirmation.

Slamming the interest in “empathy” that President Obama expressed early on in his search for a nominee, Sessions said: “Empathy for one party is always prejudice against another.”

–

You can follow TWI on Twitter and Facebook.