MSNBC’s ‘All In’ Panel Obsessed over Skin Tone of Oscar Awardees

MSNBC 'All In' Panel Obsessed Over Skin Tone of Oscar Awardees (NewsBusters)

Oh, Hollywood, you're racist and you don't even know it!

That was the undercurrent of post-Oscars analysis delivered by Chris Hayes and panelists on the Monday, February 23 edition of All In. From emcee Neil Patrick Harris's opening joke to a running bit with Octavia Spencer to Sean Penn's "green card" joke, the faculty-lounge lefties assembled on set lectured the Academy Awards for being too white and too insensitive to persons of color. 

"Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and whitest -- sorry, brightest," was Harris's joke. That fact that it wasn't followed by a more searing satire of racial underrepresentation at the Oscars was a shame, panel member Rembert Brown of Grantland insisted.