The preceding week had involved some trivial but intense parsing of an exchange between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama about Dr. Martin Luther King. But just let the real thing occur, with a full-blooded and full-throated bellow of old-fashioned authentic racism, and you can see the entire press refusing to cover it for fear of having to confront the real and unvarnished thing (and perhaps for reasons having to do with other “sensitivities” as well).
He’s speaking, of course, of Mike Huckabee’s defense of the Confederate flag in South Carolina. What he doesn’t mention, but probably should have, are the pro-Huckabee TV ads that the group Americans for the Preservation of American Culture was running in South Carolina.
As far as I can tell, Huckabee hasn’t done anything to distance himself from APAC or its ads, which may be difficult since the ads simply tout Huckabee’s undisputed public position on the issue.
