Just when you think it has been beaten to death --

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-- Out comes the "Race Card" again.
MSNBC's Mitchell: 'Are Black Lawmakers Being Singled-Out' for Ethics Violations?

During her 1PM ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell promoted allegations from the Congressional Black Caucus that ethics investigations into Democrats Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters are racially motivated: "Are black lawmakers being singled out by the ethics watchdogs on Capitol Hill? New charges of racial bias." After detailing the accusations against California Congresswoman Waters, Mitchell noted the formal ethics charges filed against New York Congressman Rangel and touted his defense: "...he, we now know, tried to point out that Mitch McConnell and others allegedly did the same thing, trying to raise money for a center named after them. He's claiming that this is a matter of bias."

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CNN Brings on Al Sharpton to Forward Idea that Rangel Probe Is Racially Motivated

On Sunday's Newsroom, CNN's Don Lemon conducted a softball interview of the Rev. Al Sharpton and helped him forward the theory that the congressional ethics investigations into Representatives Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters are being conducted because they are black. Lemon also didn't go into much detail as to what the charges against the two were and what were the circumstances of their cases.

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Two NY Times Reporters Again Forward Rep. Clyburn's Bogus 'Racial Slur' Allegations

After summarizing the danger that the trials pose for Democrats in an election year, the Times checked in on an unreliable source, Rep. James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, to raise a defense of Rangel and Waters, both of whom are black, as is Clyburn.

And the cases could feed racial strains both inside the Democratic caucus, where black members are asking why so many investigations seem to be aimed at them, and out among voters, especially in rural and white districts where many conservative Democrats face tight races.

Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina and the House whip, defended the two lawmakers' rights to a trial, but said it was inevitable that some political opponents would try to turn the ethics questions into a race issue. "Those Tea Party people that showed up at the health care debate, they will not hesitate for one moment to racialize something," said Mr. Clyburn, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. "They did, and they will."

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Ethics probes of Rangel, Waters cause tension on Capitol Hill

The prospect of two long-serving, iconic black lawmakers in the House enduring unprecedented public ethics trials could add to the growing tension between black members of Congress and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill and in the Obama administration.

Between them, Rangel, 80, and Waters, 71, have served in the House for six decades and are leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus. The caucus has long complained that the House ethics process disproportionately targets blacks in the chamber.
Since its 2009 inception, the Office of Congressional Ethics -- an independent watchdog set up at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- has investigated at least eight members of the black caucus.

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Ethics cases raise racial questions

he politically charged decisions by veteran Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California to force public trials by the House ethics committee are raising questions about race and whether black lawmakers face more scrutiny over allegations of ethical or criminal wrongdoing than their white colleagues.

The question of whether black lawmakers are now being singled out for scrutiny has been simmering throughout the 111th Congress, with the Office of Congressional Ethics a focal point of the concerns. At one point earlier this year, all eight lawmakers under formal investigation by the House ethics committee, including Rangel and Waters, were black Democrats.

There’s a “dual standard, one for most members and one for African-Americans,” said one member of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

I wonder if the thought ever cross the minds of these "Race Card" players and their MSM{LSM} enablers that perhaps, just perhaps the reason has to due with some black Democrats assuming they could get away with high crimes and misdemeanors, because a supposed black Democrat was President? In short, they mistakenly thought they were untouchable?