Shep Smith Compares Arizona Immigration Law To “Driving While Black” Law

 

For a straight news representative of Fox News, Shep Smith continues to throw in plenty of opinionated asides – and to delightful effect. Today’s example? While discussing Florida senatorial candidate Marco Rubio‘s opposition to the controversial new immigration law in Arizona with reporter Carl Cameron, Smith called the new law the “breathing while Latino law” and later compared it to another racial profiling controversy, the “driving while black law.” Whoa.

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