If he used a racial slur to describe anyone other than white people he would be fired so fast it would make his head spin.
Via Mediaite:
The Five opened its show Tuesday afternoon by looking ahead to tomorrow’s speech by President Obama, marking the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. The conservative hosts were attempting to place blame on the president for how little racial progress the country has made since King’s day when Bob Beckel jumped in and began attacking all those “crackers in the south” who want to prevent African-Americans from voting. […]
From there, Beckel steered the conversation to voting rights, saying the reason liberals care about voter ID laws is because “there’s a bunch of crackers in the south–”.
… Instead of taking it back, Beckel doubled down, saying, “In the counties, in certain parts of Texas and North Carolina where these new voting ID laws will disenfranchise blacks, they are crackers.”