Reid’s remarks about Obama were revealed in “Game Change,” a book detailing the 2008 race by Time’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann.

The authors describe Reid assessing Obama’s strengths as a candidate. Reid, they write, “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,’ as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.”

The National Republican Senatorial Committee jumped on Reid’s comments. “For those who hope to one day live in a color-blind nation, it appears Harry Reid is more than a few steps behind them,” communications director Brian Walsh said.

Reid gets a pass on these remarks because he is a Democrat. If a Republican had made these, he would be toast, with the Democratic media complex calling for his head. The fact that it may be true does not matter. Objective analysis of Obama’s victory is not possible today, and may never be, even by historians a generation from now.

This incidence shows how race is a political weapon in American politics today. Political Correctness, a communist concept, is used to enforce the control of the Left in America.  Objective analysis, objective truth does not matter.  The Left has made its own truth, and will enforce it.  How distant this is from the American promise of freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

Harry Reid should consider himself fortunate to be a Democrat today.

It is terrifying that a such charge could even be brought against Steyn.  Canadians:  It is past time to end these “Human Rights Tribunals.”  Your liberties are at stake.

Kathy Shaidle has a good article here reflecting on Canada’s chilling suppression of individual liberties.

Thank you, Mark Steyn, for defending freedom!  I am sorry you had to go through a difficult legal procedure.  I fear that you will have to again, and again, as lawfare is used to suppress your freedoms.