Then Barry might have declared that it was open season on Arm & Hammer products.

Galen, thanks for the full text. Even funnier than I imagined. I was trying to think of a way to get off someone’s listserv by using the phrase “crack addict” in my request.

Here’s the text of the offending e-mail: “Must we hear about it every time this crack addict attempts to rehabilitate himself with some new — and typically half-witted — political grandstanding? I’d be grateful if you would take me off your mailing list. I cannot think of anything the useless Marion Barry could do that would interest me in the slightest, up to and including overdose.”

Notorious crack addict Marion Barry kept it classy and played the race card, claiming that the message was especially problematic at a time when “around the nation, it’s almost open season on black people.”

And yes, Barry has a history with crack and other drugs, most recently testing positive for cocaine in 2006 during a mandatory drug screening associated with his guilty plea on tax charges.

So the Washington Post apparently doesn’t want its reporters to make statements of fact if they happen to be inconvenient. In other news, Dog Bites Man.