Arizona's an Easy Target for Arthur Frommer

So the king of the travel guide racket, Arthur Frommer, has come out against Arizona.

After seeing that protester carrying a rifle outside a building where the president was speaking, Frommer says he'll no longer visit the state and suggests "tourists should safeguard themselves" by avoiding the crime-ridden hell-hole that is the Grand Canyon.

After I read about this, I decided to do a search to see if Frommer ever made similar pronouncements about other places. I wondered if he had ever told people to avoid Washington D.C., which according to a U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics 2004 report, topped the entire country in crime.

Zilch.

Nor could I find any such commentary regarding Detroit, Memphis or Miami — the only large cities in the U.S. with more than 950 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to FBI's 2008 crime report.

And what of President Obama's very own Chicago — a city experiencing more bloodletting than a typical "True Blood" episode? Did Frommer warn travelers away from that bullet-ridden borough?

Nope.

Fact is, Frommer went after Arizona because it's an easy target. It's just a bunch of white rednecks with guns — even if one of the white rednecks is, you know, black.

And it feeds Frommer's ego: Voicing an opinion in sync with the like-minded, smirking media provides him — for a brief moment — an elevated sense of self.

But I sympathize. All Frommer does all day is make travel guides. Maybe he should get out more.

And if you disagree with me, then you sir, are a racist.

Greg Gutfeld hosts "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld" weekdays at 3 a.m. ET. Send your comments to: redeye@foxnews.com