Dear Media: Enough With The Sanitized Racism Already

Racists like to deny that racism exists. That way wingnuts and teabaggers get to look less like knuckle-dragging white supremacists and take on a faint smell of respectability for people who don't really pay attention.

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have main-streamed white supremacism and follow the denial technique like they co-wrote the manual. According to them, racism either does not exist or exists only in the public imagination as a liberal tool to 'repress' whites.

And now, because wingnuts are playing this interference with such great success, the MSM patsies are confused into not even recognizing old school white supremacism any more, thereby aiding and abetting its proliferation.

Take Patrick Lanzo, owner of the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar, who put up a sign outside his hillbilly eatery saying “Obama's plan for healthcare: Nigger rig it.” Most news reports cluelessly played up Lanzo as not so much a racist but as a political objector whose only mistake was not choosing his words more carefully. CBS News in Atlanta quoted him as saying “I stand by my president, but I also stand by my First Amendment right to criticize him if I feel he’s wrong."

But Lanzo is far from being some hapless Hillbilly hampered by his own vocabulary. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

"Lanzo has hosted annual music festivals of neo-Nazi skinheads. His restaurant’s website includes an image of a caricature of a robed Klansman urinating on Obama... Other signs have included messages such as “Damn Yankees may have taken our niggers but not our guns” and "Most lawyers are just a lower form of a nigger.""

God protect us from our ball-less news media so determined to portray racist scum from Lanzo up through Limbaugh as having opinions deserving of debate. How many lynchings will it take to shock the media into not sanitizing and enabling racism?