A radio talk show "host" has joined his right-wing comrades and indignantly denied that their incendiary rhetoric had ANYTHING to do with the killings in Tucson. He was absolutely shocked, shocked! at the very thought. Here's what he said, according to the NYT: “People have the image now that we’re a bunch of racist bigots and there are shootouts in the streets,” Garrett Lewis said. “[There is] absolutely no proof that any of this is true.”
Yet Ned, suppressing a wry, yet sad, chuckle, recalls that back in November he was in Tombstone, Arizona, and witnessed several "shootouts" featuring multiple murders, all glorified by onlookers. This country has been glorifying "wild west" shootouts for more than a hundred years.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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