This is how it starts

  John Gibson, one of the Fox News Channel’s resident knuckle-draggers, had this to say yesterday about Jeb Bush and the Schiavo case:

But for me the big one is the judicial tendency to say, as long as the law and the process has been followed correctly and justly, doesn’t matter if she lives or dies.

Strikes me that that’s adherence to law to a fault.

I know lawyers and judges don’t think that way, but real people do.

Oh John, you’re not saying judges aren’t real people, are you?

Well, judging by what happened here, I’d say yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.

So Jeb, call out the troops, storm the Bastille and tell ‘em I sent you.


We now live in a country where the leading cable news channel is openly calling for mob rule in defiance of the law. We now live in a country where a TV anchorman can suggest that judges “aren’t real people” and hence deserve whatever happens to them.

Can anyone now doubt that violence will come in the wake of this Schiavo thing? Can anyone now doubt that a large number of people in the fundamentalist right wing would like nothing better than to see Michael Schiavo and/or a judge or two get physically hurt as a result of this thing?

And Jesus wept….

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