By Noel Sheppard | May 8, 2010 | 8:31 PM EDT

New York Times columnist Charles "Minstrel Show" Blow was at it again Saturday accusing Tea Partiers of being racists.

I guess for Blow, a day without calling some conservative a racist is like a day without sunshine.

Whatever the pathology, his "Trying to Outrun Race" made it crystal clear right from the get go what unfortunate readers were in store for:

Racist. Tea Party. 

Not surprisingly, it was all downhill from there (h/t Hot Air headlines):