MEDIA WINGERS BACKING DOWN?

Today, a caller to the Glenn Beck Show asked a hypothetical question: What would've happened to our revolution if the Founding Fathers had adopted the non-violent tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King? He clearly wanted an answer that would support the call for violence in the face of what the wingers think is an authoritarian, statist Federal government. I have to give Beck some credit because he shot down the callers pre-supposition: "anyone who picks up a gun is going to destroy the Republic."

In an interview with Ann Coulter¹, Bill O'Reilly also back away from incendiary winger madness:

COULTER: Right, right. Well, apparently, this one random nut who shot Tiller, I don't really like to think of it as a murder.

O'REILLY: Easy.

COULTER: It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester.

O'REILLY: You can't -- you can't diminish what that killer did or you have anarchy.

COULTER: I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others.

O'REILLY: OK. But if you can't...

COULTER: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot an abortionist.

O'REILLY: You must have society, or it will collapse, that has laws.

¹Fox News Network
June 22, 2009 Monday
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:29 PM EST
Ann Coulter Weighs in on Tiller Murder
BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly
GUESTS: Ann Coulter