There is a point I’ve been meaning to make for a couple of weeks. Pardon my tardiness. I know the news moves like lightning. Ferguson, Mo., seems as far away as Troy.

But I saw here on the Corner that MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had a little trouble in Ferguson. Protesters threw rocks at him. And he said, full of understanding, “People are angry, man — they’re really angry.”

Okay. Maybe you can appreciate his composure and sympathy. But say he had covered some right-wing rally or protest. And some of those protesters had thrown rocks at him. Would he have said, all understanding, “People are angry, man — they’re really angry”? And they would have been.

People who throw rocks at innocent bystanders are SOBs who should be arrested. That goes for Professor Said, too.