As much as I can’t stand the woman, everyone needs to stop being so easily offended. The remark was a poor attempt at humor and the apology was sufficient.

And besides, Dr. King’s KFC outlet was in Georgia. :)

As Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. … Then Hillary Clinton mocks you and others like you for working hard while she insider-trades cattle futures and lives off U.S. taxpayers and ghostwriters.”

Back to the issue. Yes, if a comedian like Sarah Silverman made the gas station comment it would be perfectly appropriate humor…for her. She’s an equal opportunity “racist” offender.

She could get laughs at clubs talking about how she “wishes Strom Thurmond were president today because he would do something about all the rap music, while giving black interns their own Monica Lewinski role model” or whatever else her politically incorrect mind might produce. On a recent show Silverman accused “one of the black guys” in rap band of stealing her bag. They played along with the stereotype and it was funny.

But if Senator Hillary Clinton or Trent Lott said the same thing — even followed by “just kidding” — it would be a serious issue.

Comics offend for a living. But the words of politicians have have much greater consequences in society. “I was making a joke” is not an excuse for publicly reducing Gandhi (of all people) to a racial stereotype.

Imagine if even a non-politician commentator like Rush Limbaugh actually said something racially controversial like, “McNabb must be playing so well lately because he’s eating more watermelon…no seriously, he’s proved he’s a good QB…for a black guy…no, just kidding again.” That’s would be the true equivalent of Hillary Humor. It’s also similar to Bill Clinton’s style.

I’m telling you, we really need to educate white folks like these elitist Clintons if we’re ever going to solve our racial issues. That’s what Howard Dean will do for America, and that’s why I approved this message.

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“The remark was a poor attempt at humor and the apology was sufficient.”

Mike, c’mon. I doubt that anyone was truly offended by what Hillary said.

The root of the “uproar” is fairness. Trent Lott and John Rocker both suffered irreparable damage to their careers for their remarks because of the firestorm created by the media and special interest groups.

Senator Lott’s remarks were extensively interpolated to paint him as a racist. He never demeaned an individual or group directly in his remarks. His attackers really had to stretch to make that connection.

Senator Clinton’s “joke” was a direct stereotype of a specific ethnic group and a demeaning slap at their most revered leader. She would like us to believe that her thinking is entirely pure and innocent while Senator Lott’s was dark and sinister at best.

The question is: “Where’s the firestorm by the media and ethnic groups burning Hillary in effigy and demanding immediate satisfaction?” It’s a matter of equal treatment.

“I’m telling you, we really need to educate white folks like these elitist Clintons if we’re ever going to solve our racial issues.”

Dr. Dean, please educate us white folks. We’re so grateful you’ve found the solution to all our problems! Without you, we’ll forever be stupid and ignorant.

This was, plain and simple, an ethnic joke, the kind for which a Republican politician, of any stature or none, anywhere in the country, would be instantly pilloried from coast to coast in mainstream media. There’s a double-double standard at work here: a Democrat says something for which she would feign (and I do mean feign) outrage if a Republican had said it; and, mainstream media gives a glance, then looks away, when a Democrat does what they would use a high-intensity spotlight to focus on a Republican for having done.

Can’t we “call for her head” just as a matter of principle?

Sarah Silverman got in a little hot water on Conan O’Brien for saying she could get off of jury duty by using the term “chinks.”