The Angry Left Boils Over - Air America and Incitement to Assassination

Drudge is breaking a story about an Air America skit on the Randi Rhodes show about shooting the President.

Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening -- a skit featuring an apparent gunshot warning to the president! The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

It's deranged, hateful listening even without the violent skit, (which I can't find - possibly pulled?) This kind of stuff has been bubbling under the surface on Democratic Underground for some time. Putting it on the airwaves is a quantum leap, even by conservative talk radio standards. The loony left has gone beyond hypocrisy when - while espousing 'peace' - it thinks something like this is funny. It's even scarier to think that this stuff has an audience (albeit a declining one.)

Scarier still is that some members of that audience are just uninhibited enough to be influenced toward action. In a way that's no longer subtle, license has been given to think about murdering the president because of a disagreement over his policies. While some on the left may pine for the protest marches of the 60's, they conveniently forget that it was a time of assassination, riot and social chaos with many victims. However passionate their dislike of this president and his policies, the ends do not justify the means.

Watch for the angry left to get even angrier in days ahead as a sympathetic media helps them spin the Secret Service investigation as a repressive, politically motivated crackdown on free speech. The term "fascist" (conveniently without the 'Islamo-' prefix) will be used even more frequently in the fringe-liberal media in weeks to come. What bears repeating is that responsibility for the results of one's free speech have never been (and should not be) protected.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is all over this with many links.