Fox News Analyst Compares Harry Reid to Plantation Owner (VIDEO)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid touched off controversy this week when he said "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican" -- a statement that may have irked Hispanic Republicans such as Brian Sandoval, who currently leads Reid's son Rory in the race for Nevada Governor.

'Fox & Friends' (weekdays, 6AM ET on Fox News) turned to legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. to deal with this delicate topic. Would Johnson use his dispassionate lawyer mind to de-escalate the rhetoric? Let's see:

"What this is is proof positive of the intentional injection of race into politics in this country by some Democratic leaders," Johnson argued. "[It's] really an attitude born of ignorance, and some ways prejudice, that ethnic groups are monolithic voting blocks.

"In some ways [Reid] is acting like a feudal lord," he continued. "In some ways he's acting like a plantation owner."

Plantation owner, huh? Couldn't just stop at "feudal lord." Sadly, one can only conclude that Peter Johnson Jr. Esq. was not trying to elevate discourse.