No. But some sectors of the Left apparently weren't as impressed with Snow's showing of emotion or his spanking of Helen Thomas, nor his basic alacrity in responding to reporters' questions, instead they're looking for the gotcha, and boy are they reaching. Apparently, since Snow had the audacity to use the expression "tar baby," why, he's some sort of vicious racist!

Personally, I've heard the expression "tar baby" used many, many times, but never in a racist context, although it, like many other expressions, could conceivably be used that way. Is that how Snow used it or meant it? Certainly not. But there are those who are so obsessed with demonstrating their own goodness that the inquisitors of the Politically Correct are willing to throw someone else under the bus to demonstrate it. There's virtually no chance that an Administration official will stand at a podium and utter an overtly racist remark, but that's the danger of an inquisition -- when there are no heretics, heretics must be created. After all, everyone knows that conservatives are racist, right?

The tar baby is a classic of American Folklore from the Uncle Remus tales [edit: and apparently in Harper's before that and as a Ghanan folktale before that]. While it can be used in a derogatory manner, it's far more often simply used as a reference to a "sticky situation" -- one that's difficult to extricate oneself from.

The Left will keep trying to build themselves up and assure themselves of their moral superiority by "tarring" conservatives...but they should stick to issues of substance which this decidedly is not.