Earlier today on Hardball, Great White Hype Chris Mathews talked about how much he admired the ads being run by black candidate for the Maryland Senate, Michael Steele. The ads were great, blabbered Tower of Babel Mathews, because “they are very non-threatening. With a black man, you almost have to make him like a child.”

You know the drill: Imagine if Rush had said it. Or Hannity. Or Coulter.

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