It’s not all bad at MSNBC. In this exchange with CAIR’s Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar (who once backed out of a scheduled debate with me on a St. Louis radio station), Carlson doesn’t let Iftikhar get away with talking about the imams who were taken off the airplane in terms of racism and bigotry. (Carlson even says, “Being anti-Muslim is not racism”; I would not have put it that way, for it sounds as if the focus is on individuals rather than on the jihad ideology, but I am glad to see this “racism” canard challenged in any form.) He explains forcefully that Islam is not a race, and defends the idea that American non-Muslims have worries about Muslims “that are rooted in reality.” He also criticizes CAIR for trying to capitalize on the incident and use it as a “political tool.” Bravo.