No Noose Is Good Noose
"There's a sucker born every minute."
Whether P.T. Barnum actually said this is unclear, but the point is no less powerful: Some folks will believe just about anything, especially if they want it to be true. Such was the case with Barnum's "Fiji Mermaid," and so it is with our mainstream media, which desperately wants to believe that there are racists around every corner and across our fruited plain.
