MSNBC's Richard Wolffe went there. The political analyst for the Lean Forward network actually played the race card in his analysis of why the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner did not accept Barack Obama's big foot move to deliver a speech to Congress on the same night as a GOP presidential debate, as he pondered: "Could it be, let's face it, the color of his skin?"
Appearing on the August 31, 2011 edition of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Wolffe made the following accusation of racism:
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: The interesting question is: what is it about this president that has stripped away the veneer of respect that normally accompanies the office of the president? Why do the Republicans think this president is unpresidential, unpresidential and shouldn't dare to request this kind of thing? It strikes me that it could be the economic times, it could be that he won so big in 2008, or it could be, let's face it, the color of his skin.
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