Yeah, no.

Via RCP:

MAHER: Now that’s a great point, that thug is now the n-word. I think it’s a very creative way to point out that racism has really kind of gone underground in this country.

DEAN: I would agree with that except that I don’t believe — my idea of a thug is Viktor Yanukovych, so I don’t think —

MAHER: Who?

DEAN: When I see Richard Sherman — he was the president of the Ukraine, he killed all those people in the streets of Kiev. I wouldn’t say that Richard Sherman is a thug. I’m not sure I agree with that.

MAHER: But people do that. Whenever they see a black guy they don’t like: thug. Because it’s socially unacceptable now — unlike when it once was — to say the n-word. So that’s sort of the word that they use instead. I mean, this was Martin Luther King Day we had on Monday and I noticed that Sarah Palin was lecturing Obama on not playing the race card. Who better than a white woman from a state with no white people to be telling our first black president —

CARLY FIORINA: Of only white people, I think you mean.

MAHER: Yeah, of only white people.