Let’s be clear: Andrea Peyser of the New York Post would have never written her op-ed yesterday, expressing her outrage towards late night talk shows if last week Sarah Palin didn’t have the need to put herself back in the media spotlight.

In her latest op-ed Peyser uses last week's joke by David Letterman about Sarah Palin's daughter and a joke by Conan O’Brien about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish woman to declare that there is a “war on white women, only this one is being fought with water balloons and whoopee cushions wielded by men who think statutory rape and racial slurs are funny. I’m not laughing.”

She declares that the jokes by these two would have Johnny Carson rolling over in his grave and would cause Lenny Bruce to have a fit. She may wanted to do a bit more research on Lenny Bruce—as Roy Edroso writes in a Village Voice blog entry “Lenny Bruce? But he made fun of the Pope!” As a good conservative, wouldn’t Peyser have thrown a fit about this joke? (I guess she didn’t get the memo).

It is unfortunate but Andrea Peyser falls in the same category of race relations paranoia (of all political persuasions) as many I have spoken or listened to on the media airwaves since the United States elected its first black president. There’s an uncomfortable fear they have that is played upon by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity that “black people are taking over the country” that Andrea Peyser, like many, fall victim to.

When Newt Gingrich called Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist against white people, the race relations paranoia gene kicked in and no further research into understanding Sotomayor’s “racist” comment was deemed necessary.

She, like many hear a few jokes about white people, then write op-eds declaring there is a war on white people but aren’t pissed off when a State GOP staffer sends a racist image of President Obama, Michelle Obama is compared to a gorilla or a New York Post cartoon depicts President Obama as a dead chimpanzee.

The “war on white people” is nonexistent. It’s not being fought with water balloons and whoopee cushions. The idea that people like Andrea Peyser is given a forum to persuade the public that there is one may be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.