INHOFE: I\u2019m, for one \u2014 I know it\u2019s not politically correct to say it \u2014 I believe in racial and ethnic profiling. <\/span>I think if you\u2019re looking at people getting on an airplane and you have X amount of resources to get into it, you get at the targets, and not my wife. And I just think it\u2019s something that should be looked into. The statement that\u2019s made, it\u2019s probably 90 percent true with some exceptions like the Murrah federal office building in my state, Oklahoma. Those people, they were not Muslims, they were not Middle Easterners. But when you hear that not all Middle Easterners or Muslims between the age of 20 and 35 are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners between the age of 20 and 35, that\u2019s by and large true.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Watch it:<\/font><\/p>\n ![\"GOPRacism\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/GOPBigotWantsProfiling_2B56\/GOPRacism.jpg\" "\\"GOPRacism\\"")
<\/a> Since the Fort Hood shootings and the failed Christmas Day terror attack,<\/font> some<\/a> on the right have called for more racial and ethnic \u201cprofiling\u201d and \u201cdiscrimination,\u201d saying that the Obama administration is more interested in \u201cprotecting the rights of terrorists\u201d than \u201cprotecting the lives of Americans.\u201d Today during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing looking into the Fort Hood rampage, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) became perhaps the most powerful proponent of outright ethnic profiling, saying it\u2019s \u201cby and large true\u201d that \u201call terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners\u201d:<\/font><\/p>\n