@hightor,
hightor wrote:
Late to the party and all, I haven't followed this story — but why not just read this as an example of typical political hyperbole? The "moral compass" reference was a joke — he's making fun of the doctrinaire right.
I thought it might be too, but not after I read it...twice, and what sort of sick pup makes a joke about executing the president of the United States, one of his key aides, the Speaker of The House and the Senate Majority leader in a op-ed piece published in a supposedly legitimate left wing e-zine? Clearly HuffPost didn't consider it all that funny or
typical political hyperbole or they wouldn't have taken it down.
I must have missed the derision you included with your posting of Frank Bruni's
making a big deal out of corrosive, hateful political rhetoric.
As long as a good many on the left insist that the right is much worse than the left in terms of the use of hateful rhetoric that, at the very least, is extremely divisive, and at worst, might incite violence, and continue to characterize such speech from the left-wingers as mere
political hyperbole or
edgy artistic expression, all the while blowing their gaskets over similar rhetoric from right-wingers, I'm in favor of bringing screeds like Fuller's to light. Maybe they will proved educational.
