Objectively my ass.

EUGENE ROBINSON: Well, if you do rerun the tape what he said was some of the opposition to President Obama and his signature legislation is because he’s the wrong color. Senator Rockefeller believes that. And frankly, if you were to see my e-mail and my snail mail and see some of the stuff I get, you would agree.

Now, does that mean that — is that calling Ron Johnson a racist? It’s not calling him a racist. That’s making an observation about in general some of the opposition and he did say ‘some of’ the opposition. Does Johnson perhaps have a right to take offense because he was the only Republican in the room? I think he probably does. I think because in that context I can understand why he would feel personally attacked. But I think that what Senator Rockefeller said, if you just take it word for word, is objectively true.