Flopping Aces reported yesterday on some troubling ties between Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan, a detestable racist. Obama has responded to the criticism, attempting to distance himself from his own church. Today, Professor Bernstein explains why Obama's explanation, unlike a Snickers bar, fails to satisfy.
UPDATE: It is instructive to contrast the coverage (or lack thereof) of Obama's equivocal condemnation of Farrakhan with the hue and cry that followed Trent Lott's enigmatic comments at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. No one in the media then gave Lott the benefit of the doubt. Do you suppose the reaction to Obama's church's decision to honor Farrakhan will be half as merciless? Don't count on it.
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