Meet the Cry-Wolf Racists: Dowd, Garofalo, Carter

What do actor/comic Janeane Garofalo, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and former President Jimmy Carter all have in common?  They commit racism in the name of fighting it, but still expect to be taken seriously.  In short, their grasp of self-awareness has the finely tuned grip of a yak opening a jar of jelly.     Our health care debate has fortunately exposed much ugliness too long ignored.  Like most political animals (elephants or donkeys), these three give a pass to their own for that which they never tolerate from others.  They’re the kind of individuals rightly scorned by Shakespeare’s Antonio in The Merchant of Venice when he said, “Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath,” Act I, Scene iii.  More specifically, Garofalo, Dowd and Carter have morphed into the very beings most of us loathe – those who accuse others of the very evil they have done themselves.  They are cry-wolf racists.  The rest at Big Hollywood

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