Heavens, but this garbage is getting old fast. The N&O reports:

Communication professors from around the country have signed a statement calling on the campaign of Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin to stop “incendiary mendacity” and “false and inflammatory” statements about Democrat Barack Obama. … the professors say the McCain/Palin campaign’s discourse — on the stump and in robocalls — “is unethical and stokes the fires of racism.”