There is something either very duplicitous or patently stupid in some of the Conservatives’ responses to the brouhaha over Senator Harry Reid’s comments several years ago about then Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s skin color and articulate speech-patterns.

Of course, Fox News commentators led the charge with their claims of a “double-standard”by Democrats in rushing to Harry Reid’s support, trying to contrast it with a dissimilar circumstance in 2002 when Senator Reid and other Democrats called for the resignation of Senator Trent Lott for his comments supporting Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 run for the Presidency on a Segregationist platform.  However, other Conservative commentators understood the obvious nuances in each man’s remarks, as well as the context in which each of them were speaking.

Harry Reid was simply stating something that even the most politically correct among us was thinking – Senator Obama epitomized the ideal of a “perfect black Presidential candidate”:  light-skinned, and extremely articulate (as well as handsome and intelligent).

Trent Lott was simply stating something that all racists believe:  this country was better off when it was segregated.

If the people over at Fox News cannot even discern something as obvious this, their intelligence has to be seriously questioned. 

So which is it, Murdoch’s minions?  Duplicitious or Stupid?!?