Missed in the hubbub over Elizabeth Hasselbeck's deft putdown of HBO star Bill Maher on Tuesday's The View were Maher's comments about presidential candidate Herman Cain. Asked to comment on Cain, Maher glibly volunteered, "He is an idiot." Maher elaborated, "I misjudged the Republicans. They will vote for a black man if he is a complete imbecile." Earlier this year, however, Maher strongly suggested that those who challenge the intelligence of a black man do so almost assuredly for racist reasons.  I remember this particularly because I was one of the people to whom Maher imputed racism. The occasion was the appearance of conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart on Maher's HBO show. After a series of false accusations against Breitbart by another panelist, Maher turned Tawana Brawley on Breitbart.  "Let's get on to the racism of today," Maher smirked. "You do not believe Obama wrote his own book." Maher cited not my book on this subject, Deconstructing Obama, but a single...(Read Full Post)