It's 2012 and we like to think we live in a much more enlightened time than say 1964, when we needed The Voting Rights Act and other landmark legislation to provide equal rights to all Americans, regardless of "race, creed or color". Race is simply not an issue to many people, but to the mainstream media, it's the 800 pound gorilla that just walked into the room. The media just can't help but keep score. Of course, ANY racial faux pas on the part of republicans in general and conservatives in particular is duly noted by left leaning bloggers and reporters, but those with a finely tuned sense of racial outrage are even picking up signals of racial no-no's from darlings of the left. That was Robert De Niro, at an Obama fundraiser of all places, cracking wise about the race of Michelle Obama and wondering--tongue in cheek "if America is ready for a White First Lady".
Now that liberal stalwart Tom Hanks has had is own dust up with the race issue:
