Or did I get the wrong ethnic stereotype?

men who pontificate for the cameras during the day, and appropriate the US taxpayers money to their cronies by night. What a tool.

...I can never get a cab at night!

As in, what a racist prick.

Did I miss the Cab Driving Terrorist? I wasn't aware that any of the non Iraqis responsible for 9-11 had a day job.

This guy, and the rest of the "Keep America Scared" crowd are a disgrace; and anyone appearing with them is as guilty.

Sorry Laura, you can't be folksy and homey and share a bed with these rascals.

What's with the recent racist remarks flowing from our elected representatives? It's beginning to feel like witch-burning times when those in power are looking for ways to create fear and a convenient way to place blame at someone else's feet. Enough already!

as a loaded term, meant to connect us to the (often misrepresented) appeasement of Hitler. I suppose most of the repubs using the term are old enough that the term carries a stigma for them, but I wonder if it does for most voters.

In any event, the meaning of 'appease' with regards to Hitler was something along the line of "we'll let him take over a couple of countries, and maybe he'll leave the rest of us alone." I don't see how that applies to Saddam or to anyone else in the area, although there are certainly a number of groups who would like to see Israel gone. But I can't think of anyone there with broad territorial ambitions; most of those countries have enough to do holding together states that are often a confederation of tribal groups with some serious historical conflicts.

Of course, being a member of the Senate, I'm sure he has a limo waiting for him anyway.

I don't remember any of the 9/11 hijackers being cab drivers. My recollection is that they were sons of well-to-do families in Saudi Arabia and Egypt who could afford to send these kids off to flight schools here in Florida. And instead of killing at night, they went out to stripper bars to show their contempt of all things western.

I've been wondering that myself. It's as if bigotry has suddenly become acceptable and even cool again, because the right has been able to backlash against "political correctness" to the degree that racism and homophobia have come to seem gutsy to some people.

But you know what - fine. It's not exactly a surprise that these guys feel this way, it's just surprising that they would actually say so. As Malcolm X said, I'd rather deal with a wolf than a fox. At least with the wolf, you know exactly what you're dealing with.

So now he's got his knickers in a twist about faceless Muslim terrorist taxi drivers. Of course, this is the guy who verbally abused firefighters in the airport last month, so it's not as if he has a clue or anything.

However, the idea that all Muslims in America are terrorist infiltrators is pretty common on wingnut sites. Most are garden-variety, "only good Muslim is a dead Muslim" style rants. A popular new twist is to claim that crimes committed by Muslims are actually acts of terrorism -- absent any hard evidence to back this up, of course.

A Sikh ALWAYS where's a turbin. A Muslim DOES NOT, unless they live in a place where everyone else does also (like in the Middle East). In America, Muslims almost never where turbins, like most Americans. Those cab drivers that wear turbins are Sikhs, not Muslims! The Sikh faith has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MUSLIM FAITH. It's a fact. Being afraid of a Sikh is like being afraid of Quakers. The Sikh faith teaches meditation, yoga, and above all, pacisfism.

This is just one more example of why racism is really nothing more than uncontrolled, extreme, coward based, stupidity.

Do they have to kill in the daytime? How would they get enough sleep? Or do they have a union that says only the guys who drive in the daytime are allowed to kill at night? It sounds like exhausting work.

Not that I'm in favor of the news media spending the rest of the week on this to the detriment of more important matters, but Conrad Burns should pay a price for that statement. A heavy one.

how scare tactics like this are effective in places like Montana, where comparatively few people drive taxis or ride around in taxis and very few of the taxi drivers who do live there are likely to be anything other than caucasian, whereas in cities that have lots of ethnically diverse taxi drivers, like DC, New York, San Francisco, etc.--which are incidentally at far greater risk than Montana of suffering another terrorist attack--it's never occurred to most people to be scared of their cab drivers, nor would it occur to most people in those areas that voting for Republicans will help keep you "safe" from these scary terrorists?

Also, I'm not sure a taxi driver could get away with driving cabs by day and moonlighting as a terrorist at night. I'm not a cab driver myself, but from what I've seen they seem to pick up a fair amount of their business at night.

Would someone please tie Conrad Burns and that other bastard from VA (George "Macaca" Allen) up and find a cliff in Wyoming to throw them off of?

My God. I never thought I'd see the day when overt expressions of racism are tolerated in this country. We really have gone backwards since Bush became president.

What's next? The Ku Klux Klan standing by while the next president is sworn in? These two imbeciles are trying for re-election. May as well be going to an Aryan Nation meeting. That's what their campaigns are shaping up to be. I pray the majority of us see through this cynical, hate-filled Congress and vote it out in November.

These people appeal to our worst instincts and give the force of law to our prejudices. There's no place for this kind of intolerance in our country. I pray that people see this now.