Update to this story.

MSNBC’s race baiting schtick has officially jumped the shark.

Via liberal Politico writer Dylan Byers:

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry said Sunday that “Obamacare,” the nickname for President Obama’s healthcare legislation, was a “derogatory term… conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man.”

Four questions for Harris-Perry, who was unavailable for an interview, according to an MSNBC spokesperson:

1. Was “Hillarycare” a derogatory term conceived of by wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a woman?

2. Was “Reaganomics” a derogatory term conceived of by wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a… Hollywood actor?

3. How do you square your assertion — that the term was conceived of by “wealthy white men” — with the fact that “Obamacare” was first used by a female lobbyist named Jeanne Schulte Scott, who in 2007 wrote: “We will soon see a ‘Giuliani-care’ and ‘Obama-care’ to go along with ‘McCain-care,’ ‘Edwards-care,’ and a totally revamped and remodeled ‘Hillary-care’ from the 1990s”?

4. What is your evidence, if any, for the assertion that Obamacare is a racially loaded term?

Byers left out the fact that Obama himself has used the word countless times (although a lot less these days).