Writing for Andrew Breitbart's website Big Government, Andrew Mellon claims that President Obama's time in office has “served as an Ivy League seminar in class warfare, race-baiting, suicidal multiculturalism and moral relativism, victimhood and submission.” Mellon is exactly right that Obama's term has served as a seminar in race-baiting, though not for the reasons he imagines.

During Obama's tenure it has been Big Government and others in the conservative media, not the Obama administration, who have tirelessly engaged in race-baiting and racially charged rhetoric.

Big Government, for instance, kicked off a vicious smear campaign against Shirley Sherrod by posting deceptively cropped video to make it seem that Sherrod was a racist, when in fact she told a story encouraging people to stand against racial discrimination.

Then there's Breitbart's claim that the Pigford settlement was not about assisting black farmers who had been victims of discrimination but about “creat[ing] back-door reparations in order to get Barack Obama elected President of the United States.”

And let's not forget that in a December 2010 Big Government post, right-wing activist J. Christian Adams connected the bogus New Black Panthers scandal to the Pigford, claiming that they were both“controversial racialist policies of the Obama administration.”

Big Government is not alone in the race baiting, of course. Glenn Beck infamously called President Obama a “racist” who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.” And Beck has spent his time since making that comment by continuing to engage in race-baiting.

And Rush Limbaugh has said things like: “President Obama is black. And I think he's got a chip on his shoulder.”

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Mellon may think he knows who the real race-baiters are, but the very website for which he writes and the conservative media of which he is a part tell a much different story.