It’s gotta be, right? Just look at all that bling on Tracey Jordan. Almost as fun as watching 30 Rock is watching liberals laugh and then think (out loud on their blogs): “Does laughing at the antics of Tracy Morgan make me racist? This might be, at best, a guilty pleasure, and perhaps I shouldn’t be enjoying it. Because, well, real racists might enjoy these jokes, too.” That’s not a direct quote of Philly-based blogger Isaiah Thompson, but close enough. He raises the question of whether we really should be laughing at the jokes and story lines of two of America’s most celebrated and successful television comedies: 30 Rock and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Thompson writes: Anybody else feel like TV’s been getting uncomfortably, overtly racist? See? I said I was close enough. To be fair, Thompson backs off from that question later in his brief blog post: But I don’t really buy it. And yeah, I’m the who’s ruining the joke by talking about it: but of the many things that make Curb and 30 Rock hilarious, I gotta say: black people playing crazy black people doesn’t top my list. So … Thompson apparently feels so much guilt about

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