Media Matters Should Do More "Spadework"

Hillary Clinton recently suggested that Barack Obama "has not done the kind of spadework" that she has done.  Immediately The Usual Suspects raised the race card. Media Matters, for one, used Rush Limbaugh's radio show as a conduit to highlight the racist connotation of the term spadework.

Spadework:     Preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.   Dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking.  Preparation of soil before the planting process.

Why is using the term spadework racist?  Spadework is a term used for years and only means that one needs to do the preparation if one expects a successful outcome.  Could it be in the eye of beholder.  Maybe that beholder should get a life?  There are many terms out there that could be twisted in anyway one desires.  If the term spade, used in any fashion is racist, then the World Series Of Poker is a racist event.  There are also words and sayings that in fact should not be used.  Many years ago, if one asked you if you had a FAG, they were asking you if you had a smoke, a cigarette.  The term Fag in any fashion is unacceptable.  But if we were to filter out any term, word, name, or saying that could in any way, be twisted in such a fashion as to infer racism,  such as Sam Spade, a character in Dashiell Hammett's works, SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF SPADEWORK TO ACCOMPLISH THIS.

Hillary Clinton is not racist nor would she lower herself to implanting words that would imply that this campaign is about race.  And seeing Media Matters count the number of times a word is used in a radio broadcast is anal ( relating to or being personality traits that originated during toilet training), and they should get their head out of their collective arse (the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on).