Rage aimed at Rep. Jack Murtha, not Barack Obama, it seems. Imagine how many emails and phone calls from slandered western Pennsylvanians must have hit Murtha’s office for him to release this only hours after calling his constituents racists:

Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, was quoted yesterday in remarks made at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (www.post-gazette.com ) and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (www.pittsburghlive.com ). He issued the following statement today: “I apologize for making the comment that ‘Western Pennsylvania is a racist area.’ “