MSNBCer: Did Republicans Reject Obama’s Request for Speech Because of ‘Color of His Skin?’

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 Wednesday's edition of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Wolffe made the following accusation of racism: (video after the jump)

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