Eric P: The comment really doesn't leave much room to find a charitable reading. She talks about PC norms being "invented precisely" to cow the liberal media into shutting up.
The best I could get is: "Political correctness was created to stop the media from asking questions about the radical politics of biracial couples generally."
Patel: Well, people are obviously going off the assumption that Obama's charisma and speech skills come from something like GURPS or a WoW-style talent tree, in which he'd divide up a finite amount of skill points.
Anyone who actually follows current events realizes that politicians use a D&D system, with independent stat rolls.