It is time for people who feed this type of hate to be called out on it. I'm talking about O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, and all their like, who make millions of dollars feeding into (and off of) peoples worst fears, all day, every day. And it it time for the media to make this most obvious of connections.
I think we will now see what kind of spine the media in this country has, if any. What we have witnessed today is the assassiantion of one of the only Doctors in the United States performing late term abortions. This is not a murder. The definition of assassination is "the targeted killing of a public figure."
Fox News and it's ilk in the right wing media have practically been begging for something like this to happen for years. O'Reilly has been doing segments on Tiller for years that place the doctor just below Hitler on the evil scale, and always previewed the segments by announcing there was more news about "Tiller the baby killer", as if this man were doing something illegal. I just read a fascinating post on Huff Po that presented the fact that there was not one murder of a abortion provider during the Bush years, yet 6 were killed during the Clinton Admin. And now we have another Democratic president, and almost on cue, wingnuts are storming churches with their guns, killing police officers, and now, eliminating abortion providers.
It's time for the media in this country to connect the dots. This type of hate is fed 24 hrs a day, through every AM radio station in the country, and on a 24/7 cable channel. The media (and the Justice Department) needs to look into "Operation Rescue" which at this point has to be considered a threat to public safety. Will the talking heads and pundits treat this one like they do everything else? Will they allow the right wing to frame this one like they do everything else? Allow them to use the "one lone nut" defense?
At this point, it seems obvious to me that the Republican Party has become the party that is, at the very least, sympathetic to the views of these wackos. This is what happens when you call a entire voting block of the United States "baby killers" for 30 years. I may be going a bit over the top here, but what is going to come next?