Actor Samuel L. Jackson has become the latest Hollywood figure to call the Tea Party racist, and also briefly weighed in on the Rick Perry “N*ggerhead” controversy, when New York Magazine‘s Dan Amira and Catherine Coreno caught up with him at a benefit for the Children Of Bellevue’s Reach Out And Read program Monday night. Jackson also said he didn’t think the controversy surrounding Perry’s hunting camp would hurt the candidate, saying, “He’ll actually gain respect from a lot of people that he didn’t have respect from before.”

On Monday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert stuck up for Rick Perry over his West Texas hunting camp’s racially charged name. He called the scandal “much ado about nothing” as “many presidents have vacationed at questionably named resorts.”

Sparks flew on the set of The View on Monday, as the topic of Herman Cain‘s uncensored use of the name “N*ggerhead” in denouncing Texas Gov. Rick Perry inspired one reaction when Whoopi Goldberg quoted him, and quite another when Barbara Walters did. Goldberg seemed to applaud Cain’s choice, and argue against the euphemistic use of “the n-word,” but when Walters quoted Cain (again, uncensored), co-host Sherri Shepherd told Walters, “”I didn’t like the way you said it.”

In an indication of how quickly the controversy surrounding Rick Perry’s former hunting ground has penetrated the political media, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked, at today’s daily briefing, to weigh in on how the Texas Governor has handled the issue so far. Carney, in a brief response, said that the name of the camp “was clearly offensive,” and that, based on what he has ready, Governor Perry “shares that opinion.”

As the fallout from the Rick Perry “Camp N*ggerhead” controversy continues to build, an interesting peripheral question has emerged: How will this controversy affect the rising candidacy of Herman Cain, whose denunciation of Perry elevated this from a mere “hit piece” from the “liberal media” to an intramural fight among Republicans? The perfect storm of the “race card” and Cain’s use of a word that’s arguably as inflammatory to the conservative base as the n-word – “sensitivity” – could spell trouble for Cain’s meteoric campaign.

In an odd role reversal, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough strongly denounced Texas Gov. Rick Perry, this morning, over a Washington Post report about a hunting camp that once (and colloquially, still does) bore the offensive name “N*ggerhead,” while liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski defended Perry and mocked the news value of the story. Scarborough called the incident “disqualifying,” while Brzezinski’s faint defense involved asking whether Perry isn’t “running around screaming (the n-word) wildly at people?”

A new Washington Post report about a hunting camp that once (and colloquially, still does) bore the offensive name “N*ggerhead” is raising new questions, fairly or unfairly, about embattled GOP presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX). The article exhaustively details the questions surrounding the camp, and while it contains a denunciation by Perry, it also carries with it the strong suggestion that Perry at least tolerated the name, once painted on a large rock at the camp’s entrance, for a time.