And neither of those two conclusions will be the correct one.

For the benefit of our liberal friends, this is what a racist sounds like. Not like Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh, but like this email.

If you haven’t learned what a racist sounds like by now, just replay some of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons from Barack’s old church. Those are as racist as they come.

I understand it was a mass e-mail but it appears to have been written to the author of a Boston Globe article. If it was, and if the article was written by a woman, I'd say he's sexist, too. In this e-mail it appears that he's calling the reporter a “hot little bird” and that the reporter should be serving him coffee and doughnuts Sunday morning.

He also seems to take the Gate's/Crowley affair too personally. It seems that he treats everyone as a suspect. He did say that Gates would always remain a suspect… Barrett doesn't seem to understand that it's his job to respond to calls for help and sort the good guys from the bad guys.

Maybe he's stressed. Maybe he needs time off. Maybe he needs counseling (his line of work is difficult). But at the moment with his attitude he does not belong on the streets, “protecting” people and responding to calls for help. His judgement is very suspect and that, couple with a gun and authority, spells trouble.

I think we've established that the cop (the one who wrote the email, not the one who made the arrest) is racist. The next question: stupid or drunk?