while i do not disagree conceptually, i really think race-baiting demagogue is an innappropriate description in this case
I think it's a thorougly appropriate label, both for the pair of idiots who wrote the articleand for the idiots like Dwight Clinton Jones (D-Richmond) that were demanding an apology. Del. Hargrove smacked them down, and they didn't like it, so they responded with typical leftist rhetoric: distortion, bluster, and irrelevant smears. Entirely predictably, their camp-followers in the leftist press joined in the fun.