Jason Whitlock's Pretty Sure That Broccoli Is Racist

Crying racism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

By his own admission, Whitlock made a "mistake" in comparing the NRA to the KKK. But anyone else who notices that mistake is a "racist" for doing so.

O'Reilly invited him on to his show, Whitlock refused, and then O'Reilly knocked him as a coward. You can say whatever you like about this tactic of O'Reilly's -- but it's clearly not racist. He does it to everyone.

But Whitlock reaches for that Special Card.

But it appears I was summoned to testify before Speaker of The Big House Bill O’Reilly, the FOX News entertainer. O’Reilly is fixated on the mistake I made on the Tom Joyner show. O’Reilly spent part of his Tuesday show telling his viewers that I was afraid to come on “The Factor” and discuss my views on the NRA, the Second Amendment and gun culture.

I’m a grown-ass man and it’s 2012. I don’t have to shuffle off to the Big House when summoned. O’Reilly is not Boehner, Pelosi or Obama. He’s a TV entertainer who has spent the weeks after the election crying about the end of “white establishment” America, the end of the days when an upstanding white man felt entitled to summon whomever he wanted whenever he wanted to the Big House to dance.

I don’t dance.

Racism is the new Ladies' Troubles. A general excuse for not doing stuff you don't want to do, and a sort of icky area no one's going to probe too deeply about.

Jason Whitlock may not dance, but apparently he plays tennis, goes horseback riding, and walks along the beach.

"That Broccoli Is Racist" is an old Andrew Breitbart joke, by the way. He suggested that as a name for a show starring Toure. The concept was that Toure would just point out random objects and accuse them of being racist. I imagine the credits would begin with him accusing the broccoli.

posted by Ace at 10:05 AM

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