Ann Coulter recently tried to include this sentence in her syndicated column: “Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.” And Rep. Sam Johnson recently advocated nuking Syria (though his staff denies it): “Syria is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on ’em and I’ll make one pass. We won’t have to worry about Syria anymore.” Both of these comments are obvious plays on anti-Arab bigotry (obviously no one likes the Syrian regime, but nuking the country would kill millions of innocent people). President Bush did a good job of denouncing anti-Arab bigotry immediately after 9/11. The question now is whether his administration will call out Coulter and Johnson on these comments.