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Bill O'Reilly has declared, "I don't think she's a racist," in regard to Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, even though it turns out that her comment about a Latina woman making better decisions than a white man was repeated on several occasions. O'Reilly turns a blind eye to her raw display of racism because he doesn't want to be accused of being a racist himself. This is how cowardly the sponsor of the "No Spin Zone" has become in the face of a politically correct "debate" that has already forced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to retract his charge of racism against her.

False accusations against white people are tolerated by the media, even the conservative media. This is why Al Sharpton is a frequent guest on the O'Reilly show, despite his participation in the Tawana Brawley hoax, whereby he falsely accused a group of white men of raping a black woman.

But accurate accusations of racism against members of minority groups who make racist statements are not tolerated. That is why Gingrich backed away from his accurate comments, and why O'Reilly said he didn't want to have anything to do with them.

"When I did a Twitter about her, having read what she said, I said that was racist, but I applied it to her as a person," Gingrich said on Face the Nation. "The truth is, I don't know her as a person." Gloria Borger on CNN reported that Republican senators had asked Gingrich to retract the charge. More cowardice.

Yet the words themselves were evidence of racism. What's more, she had made the same kind of statement on different occasions.

It is obvious that Gingrich will never "know her" in the sense of sitting down with her for hours and exchanging views. Conclusions have to be based on what people say and do. And when someone assumes a position of gender and racial superiority over others, what other conclusion can you come to, except that he or she is a racist? Even Obama agreed that the statement was a poor choice of words. It was a controversy, if given the media coverage it deserved, that could have seriously damaged the nominee because it gets to the heart of what she personally believes and thinks about America.

However, there's another major controversy lurking―her anti-American views, despite having benefited from extraordinary opportunities in America. And then there's a political speech she made, in violation of judicial ethics, hailing Obama's election and calling on the legal profession to implement the Obama agenda. Any one of these scandals could sink her nomination―if the media do their duty and cover them.

Ironically, some of this has already surfaced on a far-left radio show, where Puerto Rican political writer and analyst Juan Manuel Garcia-Passalacqua said that Judge Sotomayor is "not a daughter of the American Revolution" but instead "a child of colonialism."

He told Amy Goodman's radio show, "Judge Sotomayor was a member of the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, which meant three things: number one, that she was an ethnic national, a Puerto Rican; number two, that she felt that ethnic Puerto Rican deserved and needed a defense; and third, that she dedicated 12 years of her life to that defense, the defense of the Puerto Rican ethnicity within the United States of America."

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