Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor

On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, he wrote:"Funny stuff."

Now, Tea Party activists trafficking in racist imagery are pretty much dog bites man. But McKalip isn't just some random winger. He's a Florida neurosurgeon, who serves as a member of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

He's also an energetic conservative opponent of health-care reform. McKalip founded the anti-reform group Doctors For Patient Freedom, as well as what seems to be a now defunct group called Cut Taxes Now. Last month he joined GOP congressmen Tom Price and Phil Gingrey, among others, for a virtual town hall to warn about the coming"government takeover of medicine." And in a recent anti-reform op-ed published in the St. Petersburg Times, McKalip wrote that"Congress wants to create larger, government-funded programs for health care and more bureaucracy that ration care and impose cookbook medicine."