MSNBC host Ed Shultz added to the attacks on Herman Cain by MSNBC yesterday by claiming Cain is pandering to racists. In recent days Cain had suggested that Senator Jim Demint would be a good VP pick. Shultz used this as an opportunity to pile on Cain with more irrational attacks. Schultz claims that Demint used a racist term while opposing Obamacare. Demint said during the Obamacare debate that, “if we are able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” For clarity, Schultz repeated the offending line, “It will break him.” Dr. James Peterson, director of African studies at Lehigh University, backed him up saying “break” was “a term that was used to destroy, mentally and physically, slaves.” ??? Peterson added that by picking Demint that Cain, “gives those folks a pass” on racism. It has gotten to the point that anything a republican says is racist by all the race baiting hosts that work at MSNBC. To claim that the word “break” is somehow racist is a stretch even for them, and ludicrous at best. Hey MSNBC, gives us a break from all of your race baiting rants for at least a week please.
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