I need to come up with a category or tag for this distinct brand of special, wherein a black right-wing political pundit is trying so hard to please and appear post-racial that white, right-wing pundits come off as having more sense when it comes to race issues and politics.

Via Media Matters:

“[S]he’s got this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going. If she starts talking, as [Townhall Magazine contributor and Weekly Standard contributing blogger] Mary Katharine [Ham] suggested, her instinct is to start with this ‘blame America,’ you know, ‘I’m the victim.’ If that stuff starts to come out, people will go bananas, and she’ll go from being the new Jackie O to being something of an albatross.”

“This Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going”?

*Headdesk*

Um…yeah…I’m not sure what to do with this one other than to echo Ta-Nehisi Coates: Williams obviously knows next to nothing about either Obama or Carmichael.

H/T Professor Tracey.