“Racism” on The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama’s supporters are raising a claim of racism to quash a proposed $10 million ad-campaign that highlights the president’s personal ties to his one-time spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright. (more)

The British company Paladone is facing accusations of racism in the wake of the release of its Afro-style sponges in the UK. (more)

Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of “stand your ground” laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.”) (more)

During Sunday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” correspondent Susan Candiotti — the reporter covering the recent shootings of five black men in Tulsa, Okla. — used a racial slur on live television. (more)

Marion Barry, the Washington, D.C. city councilman with a knack for finding himself in hot water, is arguing that not only is he “one of the most successful elected officials in America” but that “God gave me a great brain.” (more)

National Review editor Rich Lowry said on Saturday that the magazine had fired columnist John Derbyshire for writing an allegedly racist article, which appeared on the libertarian site Taki’s Magazine. (more)

Video footage obtained by The Daily Caller shows Hollywood screen legend Tom Hanks and Eagles musician Glenn Frey at a 2004 fundraising auction, playfully interacting with a white man dressed as an African native, complete with blackface makeup and a giant Afro wig. (more)

On his HBO show Friday, “Real Time” host Bill Maher offered his audience a theory about why President Obama is treated with less respect than others who have held his office, and said that his life would be threatened if he “had sex with a White House intern on Easter.” (more)

While one Occupy DC protester spoke to The Daily Caller about what he called the downtown camp’s mistreatment of blacks and women, another interrupted the interview by yelling “Michelle Fields is a c—!” into TheDC’s microphone. (more)

For a different take on the Ron Paul newsletter controversy, click here. (more)

For a different take on the Ron Paul newsletter controversy, click here. (more)

There must be some sort of contest among actors to see who can level the most offensive charge against the tea party. Sean Penn tossed his hat in the ring over the weekend, calling the tea party “the ‘Get the N-word out of the White House Party’” during an appearance on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.” He added that the tea party wants to lynch President Obama. (more)

In a September 23 interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, award-winning actor Morgan Freeman claimed the moral high ground, saying tea partiers have a “racist” motivation against President Obama “to do whatever [they] can to get this black man outta here.” (more)

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain caused a firestorm last week for saying that African-American voters had been “brainwashed” into unfairly dismissing conservative views. Democratic political strategist Cornell Belcher, also an African-American, promptly blasted Cain’s remarks as “racist” but said that the incident was a “teachable moment.” I agree that the incident was a “teachable moment,” but my lesson plan would be vastly different from Belcher’s. (more)

Black comedian D.L. Hughley is at it again, making racist and incendiary comments about Republicans. Apparently, Herman Cain’s victory in the GOP Florida straw poll was too much for the liberal-minded Hughley to bear. On September 27, Hughley launched into a stream of demeaning, racially charged tweets about Cain on his Twitter account @RealDLHughley, which his loyal followers responded to in kind. You may remember Hughley’s fleeting CNN talk show was cancelled in 2009 because he said during an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele “the Republican National Convention literally looks like Nazi Germany.” (more)

When delegates at the Florida straw poll overwhelmingly supported former Godfather’s CEO Herman Cain last week, it damaged the ad hominem argument that the tea party movement is motivated by racism disguised as a push for smaller government. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a first-tier candidate in two separate polls in the race for the nomination, but comedian Janeane Garofalo says it’s just cover to hide the GOP’s racism. (more)

LONDON, Ontario – Often as the only black player on his team, growing up in Scarborough, Ontario, Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds dealt with his fair share of racial slurs on the ice as he climbed the hockey ladder. (more)