He blames the Tea Party, of course, insisting it runs the Republican Party. And after all, why shouldn’t you trust Morgan Freeman’s analysis of the leadership of the Republican Party?

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse.

MORGAN FREEMAN: Made it worse. Made it worse. Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party, stated, and what’s this guy’s name, Mitch O’Connell. Is that his, O’Connell?

Oh, right, because he doesn’t even correctly remember the names of the actual Republican Party leadership. I guess “those darn Tea Partiers run the place” is easier than remembering the Senate Minority Leader’s name.

Which, you know, it’s fine not to know the Minority Leader’s name. But then don’t purport to know who controls the party. It makes you look a fool. He goes on:

FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? “Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.”

MORGAN: But is that necessarily a racist thing?

FREEMAN: It is a racist thing.

Exactly. Because our usual goal isn’t to make sure Democrats only serve one term in the White House. We’re usually all for them serving two terms. Or something. Must be racism.

MORGAN: Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that say that about any Democrat president?

FREEMAN: No, they would have gotten rid of Bill Clinton if they could have.

MORGAN: They tried.

FREEMAN: They did try, but still. I don’t, they’re not going to get rid of Obama either. I think they’re shooting themselves in the head.

Huh? Freeman claims their opposition is racist, Morgan notes they did the same with a white guy, and Freeman does…what? Where did the point go? His entire underlying proof that we’re racist was blown to bits, he notes as much, and then continues on. What happened?

Actually, if we’re measuring Republican opposition to the president, it was more intense with the white guy. Republicans actually impeached Clinton. He was later acquitted, but he still became the second president in history to be impeached. And we managed to stop his health care plan, take over Congress in 1994, and force his hand in becoming more moderate.

Meanwhile, Freeman ignores the fact that black favorability towards the president has collapsed. It’s the same story with Jews. And liberals. And Independents. His support is collapsing all over the place, largely because people have been waking up to what Republicans were warning all along — his policies would fail and he needs to be stopped from implementing them further.

The racism charge is getting old. Republican opposition to liberal policies is as old as time. The talking point now serves no other purpose but to undermine the meaning of the charge for when it’s correctly applied. That does a disservice to tolerance and the cause of defeating true racism.