You know why we have hate crimes in America against Hispanics? Obama knows:

“A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year,” Obama said. “If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it’s not surprising that would happen.”

Where’s he getting his information? The only recent articles that come up in Google News refer to this recent story out of Tennessee.

A recent Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report shows hate crimes rose 28 percent overall between 2006 and 2007, but those against Hispanics more than doubled and those against the disabled grew from 1 to 30.

National statistics, however, paint a different picture:

Nationally, hate crimes against disabled victims rose incrementally, while hate crimes against Hispanics grew 20 percent, from 2002 and 2006, the most recent five-year period with data available.

I know how Rush and Dobbs feel about illegal immigration, but what the heck do they have against the disabled? According to Obama, Rush and Dobbs have to be behind this, too. Don’t they?

(Via Hot Air)