CNN's Overreaction to isolated racism

Obama's supporters have been laying the ground work for several weeks now. If their guy doesn't win, get ready for the race card to be played like Ms. Pac Man at a NARAL convention. The above is a clip of a solitary individual who planted a misspelled sign the size of your average sheet of paper on his lawn. The contents? "OBAMA HALF-BREED MUSLIN". We've seen similar synthetic hysteria over the very racist, but inconsequential "Obama is my slave" t-shirts and the Obama waffles.

But what kind of reporter finds this newsworthy? Almost all network news has devolved to the point where the rap sheet of a celebrity gets equal billing with genocide on another continent. However, this is a special kind of story. It's often said that by reacting to Ann Coulter's latest unapologetically venomous soundbite, the media is giving her even more undeserved attention. Judging by the latest in a long line of false outrage to a remote village idiot's prejudice, the media has learned from its mistakes and is now using its own infrastructure to instill the notion that if McCain wins, it will not be the result of his decades of service to this country or peerless record of reform on a Rooseveltian scale, but because, through no fault of his own, a minority of a minority within his voting bloc falsely believes his opponent is a Muslim.