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MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: ?False (or flimsy) accusations of racism abound?they are everywhere one looks

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: “False (or flimsy) accusations of racism abound?they are everywhere one looks?though they rarely provoke the level of outrage seen in the Sherrod affair.” Well, because they’re usually aimed at Republicans.

But Moynihan’s piece produced the comment of the week:

My take:

(1) Breitbart was aiming at the NAACP as a reaction to yet another baseless Tea Party racism charge. Boy, did he hit his target. Sherrod was purely incidental.

(2) Breitbart succeeded in making the NAACP look racist, succeeded in provoking them into making an unfounded charge of racism themselves, and succeeded in stampeding the whole lefty racism industry into suddenly pontificating about the need for context and the horribleness of unfounded charges of racism.

I would say Breitbart has, once again, achieved all his objectives.

Indeed.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 24, 2010 (boomark / email).