[See NewsBusters for more.] Americans of all races and political persuasions want those who rioted and fomented insurrection at the Capitol on Wednesday to be brought to justice, so it was disheartening, but not necessarily surprising when former Republican senator from Maine and Clinton Secretary of Defense William Cohen poured gasoline on the fire on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports by blaming "white people" and their "white rage."
Mitchell began by asking, "Secretary Cohen, first, what do you think about Governor Schwarzenegger's comments?"