This is hilarious, and I can hardly believe it exists.

Heather Graham, well-stretched and wearing track gear, starts with about a 10-yard head start and yet all these business-dressed, apparently out-of-shape avatars for insurance companies manage to quickly catch up with her.

This “race” metaphor is so dumb, but it’s only made worse by selecting an actress who is clearly not very athletic, then inexplicably, showing her quickly lose ground to the rest of the group. (Where are her rollerskates?)

Bad metaphor, poorly executed. Kind of suggests the opposite of what they wanted.

I predict somebody parodies this by Friday, and the parody– in addition to being more clever and better executed– receives substantially more views than the original.

Comments on the YouTube video are blocked. Awesome stuff, MoveOn.org.

UPDATE: More from Allahpundit.

Jimmy Carter describing his opposition to government programs “to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration”:

I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination.

From Time Magazine, 1976. H/T Mike B.

UPDATE: More on Carter’s own record on race from NewsReal:

Carter campaigned for governor of Georgia as a self-proclaimed “redneck,” in an era when that word had pronounced racial connotations. His campaign distributed a photo of his gubernatorial opponent Carl Sanders being embraced by black basketball players to a Ku Klux Klan rally. Carter pledged to invite Alabama’s infamous segregationist governor George Wallace to Georgia if elected. He once said he was “proud” to have the equally segregationist Lester Maddox as his lieutenant governor following the 1970 election, calling Governor Axe-handle “the essence of the Democratic Party” (which he was).

It’s pretty exhausting trying to keep track of what is legitimate criticism of President Obama and what is racial hatred. That’s why I developed this handy flow chart:

Jimmy Carter says that an “overwhelming portion” of the protests is motivated by racism.

A question: where were all these insanely, murderously racist people during Obama’s campaign, the election, the transition, the inauguration and the first several months of his presidency?

Does it really defy the imagination of Jimmy Carter, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O’Donnell, et al. that any of these protesters are genuinely worried about public policy?

Or is this some new species of racism that lies dormant before seizing upon the minds of conservatives when private healthcare is threatened?

The New York Times demands high enough standards of evidence when the target of a defamatory remark is a liberal. But Joe Wilson is fair game – not because he behaved so badly, but because the financially troubled “old gray lady” and her employees are still in the grip of Messianic delusions.

From David Shuster of MSNBC:

President Obama is the first ever African-American to hold the nation’s highest office, and now he’s the first President to be openly heckled during an address to a joint session of Congress.

Every president faces scathing criticism from the fanatical fringe, but this at least feels different.

First black President, first to be heckled. Ergo, heckler = racist. Got it. (This is pretty easy– I could get used to this!)

And if that logic doesn’t hold up, David Shuster has “feelings.” And I’ve watched enough MSNBC to know how this works– his feelings trump your facts.

Via News Busters.

A perfect example of how much less thinking is required when you are permitted to repeatedly cry “racist!” without challenge.

UPDATE: More nuanced, trenchant commentary from the Sultan of Smug and the Kabuki Kid, via Hot Air.

The Sultan: “The line of racist attacks against the President, sometimes poorly disguised as birthers or deathers or whatever, is that what’s in play here, principally?”

I don’t think he’s right about the birthers, but I can at least understand how somebody seeking the specter of racism might find it in the claim that Obama was born abroad. But “deathers”– which I am guessing refers to people talking about “death panels?”– really? Was the Sultan so enchanted by the parallelism of “birthers and deathers” that he didn’t even bother to think through what the words actually mean? An accusation of racism is a powerful and destructive thing, even if it’s just a shortcut to thinking. It’s kind of disgusting how arbitrarily and recklessly Keith Olbermann brandishes it.

Then again, I guess it doesn’t really matter– I mean, not even Keith Olbermann watches Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

EVANSVILLE, KY—Members of the Somewhat Aryan Nation, the country’s most outspoken white sufficiency group, held a rally Tuesday night to once again declare that the white race was at least as good as, if not equal to, “a bunch of other pretty decent” races. “We call upon all our white brethren to rise up and show the world that the white race is adequate!” cried Bill Pitzen, the group’s vocal leader, before a raucous crowd of 300 supporters. “Blacks, Jews, Latinos, homosexuals—I don’t need to tell you that our modest race can hang with even the best of them in a number of diverse areas. Evenly distributed white power!” According to Kentucky residents, Tuesday’s rally is the least offensive and controversial since last month’s annual meeting of the North American Man/Woman Love Association