Shorter Glenn Reynolds And Other Assorted Wingers

“We thought Herman Cain was one of the good ones.   But then he “played the race card” by arguing that leasing a ranch called “Niggerhead” might be offensive.”

See also. My favorite example of using the phrase “playing the race card” as a way of asserting without argument that racism (at least among white conservatives) can never exist is actually Michelle Malkin, who argues that the Post “tried to macaca Rick Perry.”   Indeed, how could the media have “played the race card” by pointing it out when a politician who proudly wore the Treason in Defense of Slavery flag while growing up in California used a racial slur that had no possible meaning other than a racial slur?   How unfair!