Politics is about ups and downs. In one week, the left and the media dove into the gutter to cover for Vice President Biden's race baiting and climbed to the heights of absurdity claiming "anger" was racist.

The left better hope the Fantastic Four's Reed Richards is on their side because Mister Fantastic is the only one who can twist and stretch as much as they are doing to that nearly forgotten word: "truth."

Biden's "chained" comment was bad enough - a blatant ploy to terrify African-Americans into voting. As the AP put it, Tuesday the vice president told an "audience in southern Virginia that included hundreds of black voters that Republican Mitt Romney wanted to put them "back in chains" by deregulating Wall Street." In the aftermath watching liberals like Salon's Joan Walsh and CNN's Roland Martin defend Biden's gutter politics was astonishing. Walsh, who is also an MSNBC political analyst, called the comment "colorful and quotable" and whined "white people have been 'chained' and 'shackled' too."