RANTERS

I thought this was a good column by Peggy Noonan--there are media ranters on the left and right who really have gone too far. I don't think Obama should be depicted as he sometimes is by the radical right, but I didn't think George Bush should have been depicted by the left as he was. This was a debated that should have begun years ago, but the media never seemed to be concerned at that time so it never drew any lines of what was appropriate or not appropriate.

Two examples from just the past week. A few days ago, I was sent a link to a screed by MSNBC's left-wing anchorman Ed Schultz, in which he explained opposition to the president's health-care reform. "The Republicans lie. They want to see you dead. They'd rather make money off your dead corpse. They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don't have anything for us." Next, a link to the syndicated show of right-wing radio talker Alex Jones, on the subject of the U.S. military, whose security efforts at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh show them to be agents and lackeys of the New World Order. "They are complete enemies of America. . . . Our military's been taken over. . . . This is the end of our country." Later, "They'd love to kill 10,000 Americans," and, "The republic is falling right now."