Digby: Convenient Conservatism

Both David Neiwert and Glenn Greenwald have written blockbuster posts about the foolish Shelby Steele's stunning call today to divest ourselves of "white guilt" and bomb the hell out of the wogs.

Greenwald looks at the implications of the argument for the GWOT and checks in with the bigotsphere while Neiwert examines this idea in the context of the right's new assumption the racism is dead --- nothing to see here, move along citizen --- even while a fairly large faction of Americans are fulminating daily about how the Mexican vermin are defecating in the streets.