I'm not sure what MSNBC's Chris Hayes thought he was accomplishing by bringing the Ku Klux Klan's imperial wizard, Frank Arcona, on his show and allowing someone who has obviously had a lot of media training to come across as somewhat harmless and rational, rather than the dangerous zealot that the mailers his group has been sending out lately have shown him to be, but that's what his audience was treated to this Wednesday night.

I like Hayes a lot, but Arcona got a pass on his show because Hayes is just too damned polite. Someone like Arcona who is trying to pretend that he hasn't been trying to incite violence with the fliers his group has been mailing out deserves the Cenk Uygur treatment, where he's relentlessly pounded to defend his words in the flier where he showed his true colors, rather than the softball treatment he received in the clip above.

Hayes did give Arcona some push back on his claim that he's hearing from local law enforcement and got him to admit that anything he might have heard has been third hand. Let's hope that's true because things are already bad enough in this city without having members of our police department in direct contact with members of the Klan for their PR.

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