Huffington Post put this story in the Entertainment section, and I have no idea why. It’s a video of born-again Christian and conservative mouthpiece Stephen Baldwin (of the Baldwin brothers, and of The Usual Suspects), bitching about President Obama. Baldwin was at CPAC, I think, which is the annual Conservative conference which features lots of high-profile speakers and lots of bashing of liberals. Anyway, in this little clip, Stephen Baldwin told ABC reporter Jonathan Karl “I’m gonna be real straight with you. I am not happy about the way things are. I pray for President Obama every single day. But tell you what. Homey made this bed, now he has got to lay in it.” As HuffPo breathlessly announces, “’Homey’ is short for ‘homeboy,’ slang for a fellow gang member.” Thank you, HuffPo. I never would have known that!

Obviously, some people are all, like, “That’s so racist!” And maybe it is, but mostly I think it just seems douchey and out-of-touch. Do “gang members” still call each other “homey”? And the fact that Baldwin thought he was cutting down or disrespecting Obama by calling him such a passé term makes Baldwin look like an idiot, in my opinion. And yes, Baldwin would have never called a white liberal president “homey”. But that seems to me beside the point. Anyway, Entertainment section, blah, blah, was it racist?

Stephen Baldwin on February 5, 2010. Credit: WENN.