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'Blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands!' Protesters disrupt 'Julius Caesar'

Protesters disrupted a New York City stage production of "Julius Caesar" Friday that featured a bloody assassination of a character that resembled President Trump.

One protester, identified as Jack Posobiec, rose to his feet and yelled, "The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands" and "Goebbels would be proud."

"We were protesting what we saw was the normalization of violence," he told me. "I couldn't believe they were going on with the play in light of what happened with the attack on Congressman Scalise."

"This play was savage and brutal. He is stabbed multiple times, running around stage, crawling through blood," he told me. "It made my blood run cold seeing Americans cheering a depiction of their president being stabbed 100 times with 100 blades."

"This Manhattan Central Park crowd was on their feet cheering - they were cheering as an actor dressed as the president was stabbed to death," he told me.

He said it turned his stomach.

... it never occurred to me, for even a moment, that anyone would read my comment as anything other than the jest it was intended to be.

"It made my blood run cold seeing Americans cheering a depiction of their president being stabbed 100 times with 100 blades."

Shakespeare actors and scholars told CBS News earlier this week that the protests fundamentally misunderstood the lesson of the play.

"The play doesn't condone violence," Shakespeare actor Joe Wegner told CBS News. "It actually is a story about what happens when an act like that is committed. And you watch these characters realize that. And then, in the end, everything falls."

Shakespeare actors and scholars told CBS New...

I gotta say, those Caesar protesters need to get a grip. Watch the show and see what it is about. I haven't seen it, but according to those putting on the play, it about how far people go in politics and how they fall.

Wrong. It's about "Let's see if we can incite some shit4brains stupid mother-****** to kill Donald Trump and make us all happy!!!!"

A blanket pardon is prima facie obstruction of justice for interference with an ongoing investigation

He would promptly be impeached for that and shown the gate.

Nice try, turkey, it won't work.

"Sorcha Faal" is a fraud.

Cassius attempts to influence Brutus's opinions into believing Caesar should be killed, preparing to have Brutus join his conspiracy to kill Caesar....He then decides to join Cassius in killing Caesar.

...Casca grazes Caesar in the back of his neck, and the others follow in stabbing him; Brutus is last.

The play ends with a tribute to Brutus by Antony, who proclaims that Brutus has remained "the noblest Roman of them all."

What I have been saying here is that the right wing has contributed far more to hate speech and to an environment that makes violence more likely, than has the left. And that a reasonable and honest person would admit that.

You lament the imminent dissolution of the union. I don't know if I agree with that prediction, but I do agree that it would take some concessions from both sides to save it.

I am willing to concede much, but not objective reality.

It is fact that the right has contributed more to the destruction of civil discourse.

The ubiquitousness of rightwing talk radio, the rise of the alt-right, and the increased prominence of extreme views in the republican mainstream is objective reality.

That you can't concede that says more about you than about me, or "my side".

Because Finn has no real point to argue, and unlike Gunga, Gooey and Oral he's smart enough to know that.

conspiracy theory to explain away a growing body of evidence pointing to serious White House wrongdoing.

As special counsel Robert S. Mueller III widens his inquiry of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential campaign, it can be difficult to keep track of who is under investigation for what. The Fix is here to help.

It is quite a bit of information, but interesting for those who want to keep it straight.