(newsbusters)  Rachel Maddow on Tuesday told David Letterman that scaring white people is good politics for conservatives. 

After the host of CBS's "Late Show" asked his perilously biased guest about the Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod affair, the MSNBCer predictably pointed her accusatory finger at Fox News and everybody on the right.

"The idea is you sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of another, to be afraid of the scary immigrants or scary black people," Maddow said.

"Somebody coming to take what is white people's rightful property,"

she continued. "And you get them riled up so they feel like they need to vote in self-defense, and they vote for conservative candidates because of that fear"

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