I did say that I have some interest in politics, and that I would write on the subject. Between school and work I don’t have the most time in the world to keep up to date on everything that goes on in the world, but I did manage to spot this tidbit a few months ago (courtesy of digg) . McCain is of course styling himself to be the inevitable GOP candidate, and so this is timely at least in the sense that it says something of his real character. As a corollary one could take the position that it also says something about neoconservatism in general. Namely, that it tends to foster a form of governance and an ideology that has some inherently racist characteristics. Of course, it is O’Reilly, and not McCain that makes the most contentious statements during the following video excerpt, but McCain’s lack of reaction speaks volumes.