Newt Gingrich Is An Asshole

Yesterday:

Newt Gingrich, the man who recently said that President Obama behaves like a Muslim and therefore deserves to be mistaken for one, wishes the president would stop playing the race card and using divisive language. He was referring to Obama's comments yesterday about the Trayvon Martin shooting, in which the president noted, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
Gingrich's remarks, from his appearance on The Sean Hannity Show on radio:

"What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background.
Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him. That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling."

Hey, Newt, STFU.  Let's look at this another way.  Imagine if this was a white kid who was shot by a black or a Hispanic in a similar situation.  Would the black or Hispanic not be in jail right now?  The President, and Rick Santorum actually, both said very decent things about this case.  Is Newt claiming that if Obama had a son, he wouldn't be black?  Is he saying that whites don't get really nervous around young black men often?  Is he saying that it isn't more likely that a black kid would get shot than a white kid in a similar situation?  Even if a white kid was shot by a white person in this situation, it is far more likely that the shooter would already be in jail under these circumstances than if the victim was white.  I don't think one can argue otherwise.  Saying what the President said is disgraceful is the worst kind of racist victim-mongering.  Oh, the black guy is making everything about race and saying we nice white people are racist.  What a divisive jerk!  He hurts my feelings!  Screw you, Newt, you racist asshat.  Go listen to Rick Santorum (I can't believe I said that), you scumbag.