Even Kathleen Parker getting tired of left's race-baiting

Racism is nothing to laugh about, of course, and I wrote about my own concerns during the presidential campaign. But some of the commentary lately has been so overwrought as to be laughable. It is profoundly irresponsible, for example, to call Wilson a racist under the circumstances — as bad as, if not worse than, calling someone a liar…

Where racism appears, it needs to be exposed and expunged. But let’s be equally brutal about reverse racial sensitivity, the kind that obscures or hinders the search for truth. Is it remotely possible, for example, that fear of appearing racist and suppressing the black vote has hampered efforts to expose the ACORN voter fraud that Republican activists have tried for years to bring to light?

Sources close to McCain’s 2008 campaign say that he was so concerned about appearing racist that he was reluctant to emphasize his résumé as a war hero vs. that of the community organizer. He also had a list of words, including “risky,” that he refused to use for fear of connoting something racially negative about his opponent.