Melissa Harris-Perry: Neil Patrick Harris May Be Secretly Racist

MSNBC Logic: Neil Patrick Harris May Be Secretly Racist Somehow (NewsBusters)

As left-wing as weekday MSNBC hosts can be, weekend MSNBC anchors wander off into the land of bizarre, humorless scolds. Anchor Melissa Harris-Perry on Saturday chided two celebrity liberals for possible bigotry and for not being liberal enough. After relating a comedy bit Neil Patrick Harris performed at last Sunday's Academy Awards, Harris-Perry lectured, "Not everyone appreciated the way that he did it."  

In the sketch, Harris jokingly asked African American actress Octavia Spencer to guard his Oscar picks. Somehow constructing potential racism, Perry connected, "Of course, he explained that the task required her diligence and undivided attention." The cable host quoted the liberal professor/blogger Roxane Gay for the inevitable conclusion. Gay tweeted, "Typical. Octavia Spencer plays a maid, wins an Oscar and then is expected to work at the ceremony."