Now this is what I call responsible.
It is about time.
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Finally a conservative writer is calling it like it is.
David Frum sees the Right wing and talk radio as stoking violence.
He asserts in his column (link below) that this is what they are doing and hoping for.
He puts it eloquently here:
...The Nazi comparisons from Rush Limbaugh; broadcaster Mark Levin asserting that President Obama is "literally at war with the American people"; former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin claiming that the president was planning "death panels" to extirpate the aged and disabled; the charges that the president is a fascist, a socialist, a Marxist, an illegitimate Kenyan fraud, that he "harbors a deep resentment of America," that he feels a "deep-seated hatred of white people," that his government is preparing concentration camps, that it is operating snitch lines, that it is planning to wipe away American liberties": All this hysterical and provocative talk invites, incites, and prepares a prefabricated justification for violence.
And indeed some conservative broadcasters are lovingly anticipating just such an outcome...
He gives evidence here:
Here’s Fox News’ Glenn Beck clucking sympathetically that white males are being driven into murderous rage by "political correctness."
Here again is Beck chuckling as he play-acts the poisoning of Nancy Pelosi.
Just yesterday, the radio host Sean Hannity openly contemplated violence—and primly tut-tutted that if it occurs, the president will have only himself to blame.
Hyperbolic accusation and fantasy murder may well serve a talk-radio industry facing a collapse in advertising revenues—down 30–40 percent over the past two years, reports NewMajority.com’s Tim Mak.
Obviously they need to do this to get more listeners and so they get more and more wild and irresponsible with their talk.
http://www.newmajority.com/...
I disagree with the way he ended it but he is entitled to his opinion and so am I. He is wrong of course but we can be civil and agree to disagree.
Looks like the media is finally catching on because NYT did an article this morning showing where the crap is coming from.
MSM is finally realizing they have some responsibility to educate and not incite and they are now fact checking.
Finally we might be on our way back to sanity!