Late last night during the debut of the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, apparently itching for a fight, dusted off the race card. Trying to draw a distinction between the evisceration Rev. Wright received in mainstream media for his fiery sermons on Chicago’s south-side, and what Republicans view as the unfair treatment Alaska Governor Palin is now receiving for her widely publicized prayers for Alaskan oil pipelines and success in Iraq, Buchanan called Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright a racist. Maddow-Buchanan
But Buchanan’s retort begs the question of whether in fact Palin herself is a racist. There is the pesky and widely rumored racist comment attributed to Palin, wherein she is alleged to have exclaimed, “So Sambo beat the bitch! ” at a restaurant over dinner with fellow Republicans in reaction to Senator Barack Obama’s winning the Democratic Presidential nomination over Senator Hillary Clinton. Sambo