Strange: Charles Barkley compares himself to Paula Deen...

Will TNT fire Barkley? 

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – Hall of Famer and current NBA analyst Charles Barkley admitted Thursday to using racial slurs with his friends.
Commenting on Los Angeles Clippers’ Matt Barnes using the “N” word on Twitter and the Miami Dolphins bullying investigation on TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” Barkley stated he will continue to use the racial slur around his friends and that white people should not dictate how he talks.
“I’m a black man. I use the ‘N’ word,” Barkley said. “I’m going to continue to use the ‘N’ word with my black friends, with my white friends. They are my friends.”
Barkley compared the current debate to the controversy surrounding Paula Deen, who admitted using the racial slur previously.
“This debate goes back to the Paula Deen thing, where they’re like, ‘Black people use it amongst themselves, it’s in rap records,’” Barkley said. “Listen, what I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what’s appropriate and inappropriate.”

MSNBC’s Karen Finney: Republicans Are “Crazy Crackers”

 Can you imagine if a conservative used a racial slur to describe democrats?

“Those crazy crackers on the right, if they start with their very hateful language, that is going to kill them in the same way that they learned, at their little retreat, let’s not talking about rape.”

Update: CNN enhanced Zimmerman 911 call proves he didn't use racial slur (video)

Liberals got their panties in a bunch because they thought they heard a racial slur in a windy and muffled section of the recorded 911 call made by George Zimmerman on the night Treyvon Martin was shot. They claimed they heard Martin referred to as a "f*cking c**n." CNN (yes, I was astounded too) has enhanced the tape and it is clear Zimmerman actually said "It's f*cking cold." Reportedly, it was actually an unseasonable cold and wet night for that time of the year. Here is the CNN video. Watch it to the end. Language warning for the video.

NYT Issues Correction for Article Alleging Tea Party Racial Slur was Directed at Rep. John Lewis

Andrew Breitbart has offered a $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund for anyone who can prove Tea Party protesters hurled racial epithets at Rep. John Lewis and members of the Congressional Black Caucus during an anti-Obamacare rally in Washington March 20, 2010. You can see from this video the crowd was boisterous and noisy, but you don't hear any racial epithets. Apparently, the New Your Times can't find any evidence either. They are walking back the claim.

From Power Line:

..there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.

You can see a screen capture of correction at American Power.