When you work for an all-white organization like the NBC/MSNBC/CNBC family of networks, one would do well to avoid calling into question the racial bona fides of a minority candidate for office.

Deutsch employed the derogatory term while hitting politicians with no experience. He noted the success of such candidates and derided, "...You almost need that blank piece of paper. That's the new model. Like, you know, this coconut Rubio down in Florida."

And the particular outrage of this racial slur used by a white employee of MSKKK is that he then dared to describe the very group of folks most likely to support Marco Rubio for US Senate as racists!

[T]hey're angry- they're basically- their argument is- and I think there's a lot of racism underneath it- is- "He, they, are taking your civil liberties away. They're stomping on the Constitution. They're telling us how many bullets we can have in our guns."

So got that – a racial slur slinging employee of a monochrome network has declared the supporters of a minority candidate for office to be a bunch of racists. It would be funny if it were not so outrageous!

Probably more offensive is the apology that followed today.

Really? You just happened upon a racial slur that would just happen to be the sort of thing that liberals just happen to like to use against minorities who dare to think for themselves and reach conservative conclusions? Sorry, douchebag, but I'm not buying that incredible chain of coincidences.

Seems to me that it is time for Deutsch to be fired – and maybe to be replaced with one of those coconuts he was complaining about. That would give MSKKK a needed infusion of diversity, in terms of both ethnicity and, more important, ideology.