Along with Mike Nifong, gangs, official corruption, and the most ridiculous brand of victim politics, we can now add David Gergen, who has decided that John McCain’s noting of Barack Obama’s pomposity is just an example of a white man calling a black man “uppity” :
As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘he’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, ‘I’m against quotas,’ we get what that’s about.”
Gergen is living in 1963. It’s as if he never left Durham, his hometown, or noticed the passage of 45 years, much less myriad pieces of civil rights legislation, if he seriously believes one can’t criticize a black man in these days and times without being a racist.
UPDATE: Ask Bill Clinton.
UPDATE 2: 78 percent of Americans say Gergen full of hooey.
