Which Doctor?

This makes Zandar very, very angry, as Zach Roth at the Muck reports.

The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives.

And we've got the latest example.

On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, he wrote: "Funny stuff."

Not showing the image. My blog, my prerogative. It shows Obama as an African "witch doctor" with the caption Obamacare, coming soon to a clinic near you. Somewhat NSFW. But turns out Dr. David McKalip there is quite the piece of work.

Now, Tea Party activists trafficking in racist imagery are pretty much dog bites man. But McKalip isn't just some random winger. He's a Florida neurosurgeon, who serves as a member of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

He's also an energetic conservative opponent of health-care reform. McKalip founded the anti-reform group Doctors For Patient Freedom, as well as what seems to be a now defunct group called Cut Taxes Now. Last month he joined GOP congressmen Tom Price and Phil Gingrey, among others, for a virtual town hall to warn about the coming "government takeover of medicine." And in a recent anti-reform op-ed published in the St. Petersburg Times, McKalip wrote that "Congress wants to create larger, government-funded programs for health care and more bureaucracy that ration care and impose cookbook medicine."

So, for the assholes out there blaming Obama for making the country uncomfortable about race last night, YES, WE STILL HAVE AN ENDEMIC RACISM PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY. It still exists. I am sorry it makes you uncomfrotable that our President chooses to address it. He has that right.

We all have to deal with this. And you know what? These guys aren't helping. When the President brings up race, he is. Don't blame Obama for racism. It's not him doing it, okay?