Video: MSNBC's David Shuster Accuses GOP of Racism for Calling Harlem Democrat Charlie Rangel 'Harlem Democrat' Charlie Rangel

This is the age we live in - when you can't call a Harlem Democrat a Harlem Democrat (via NewsBusters):

DAVID SHUSTER: I want to ask you about some of the criticism of Governor Paterson, particularly the National Republican Campaign Committee. They issued a very provocative press release over the weekend. They attacked Charlie Rangel. And we mentioned Charlie Rangel and David Paterson and the problems in New York. But, they mention Charlie Rangel as "the crooked Harlem Democrat." They could have called him the crooked, New York Democrat. They could have called him a crooked Democrat. Why crooked Harlem Democrat? And did you see that as being racially tinged?

I guess TIME magazine was raaaaacist when they released this story last September: Charles Rangel: The Lion of Harlem. Now why couldn't TIME call the piece 'Charles Rangel: The Lion of New York?' Does anyone else see that as racially tinged?

Oh, by the way, there's this from Harlem Live: Representing Harlem, The Honorable Charles Rangel. Darned racists.

UPDATE: More accusations of racism from MSNBC via Story Balloon, this time towards Israel: Chris Matthews Agrees: Yeah, There’s Some Racism Involved In Why Israelis Don’t Like Obama.

UPDATE #2: Good grief. Yet more via moonbattery: Multiethnic Klan Meeting

Not even being black is defense from the tried and true "racism" charge for those who fail to toe the liberal line. At a recent town hall meeting in Maryland to discuss the disastrous effects of illegal immigration on unemployment, a shriveled old commie compared the participants — black and white alike — to the KKK: