This afternoon, the studio brought in Oz "The Mentalist" Pearlman to do some fake mind-reading stunts. I thought it was funny that the blacks all hooted and howled - there's a trope that blacks freak out over magic tricks. Barkley and company were all too happy to do the minstrel show for the audience.
In an extreme instance of synchronicity, I'd only ever heard of Oz Pearlman's act since last night. Owen Benjamin goes off on malicious deceivers in his new book
'How to Slay a Wizard' and breaks down Pearlman's hoaxes in detail. And I hadn't consciously noticed that the studio panelists are down to blacks, jews, and bow-tied nerd Ernie Johnson until
@Leonardfan's post yesterday.
