Call the Shrink: In Arizona Discussion, MMFA Finds Imaginary 'Racially Charged Rhetoric' Everywhere!

How do you call someone a racist without actually calling them a racist? By inventing, jujitsu-style, a euphemism that says just as much.

Witness the spectacle of all those “Senior Fellows” stuffed into the clown car known as “Media Matters for America,” scratching themselves with anger and itching to call conservatives “racists” but having to corkscrew themselves into place to deliver this mind-numbing piece of “research” —

Right-wing mark debate over AZ immigration law with racially charged rhetoric

Numerous right-wing media figures have rushed to defend Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, often by employing racially charged rhetoric, imagery, and stereotypes. Many have also embraced racial profiling while promoting the legislation.

Their examples of racist language racially charged rhetoric? This being Media Matters, naturally they don’t have any. So they expect you accept these substitutes:

• Washington Times: Describing the AZ law’s protesters as “Angry, hateful, violent, extremists, liberals” and their use of the term “Tequila Party”
• Glenn Beck: Beck pointed out that “there is a difference between legal and illegal immigration” and as visual aides, used a bottle of prescription allergy medicine to represent legal immigration, and a bag of “pot” to represent illegal immigration
• Brian Kilmeade: “Can you blame the people of Arizona for giving the cops this power? …How many surgeons do we “find in those tunnels by the border?”
• Pat Buchanan: “Arizona acted because” the federal government failed to “protect the states from invasion” of “illegal aliens.”

Racially charged? Or just a typical example of Media Matters’ Soros-funded delusional, meretricious and intellectually dishonest hackery? Over to you. We’re open all night.