Will the lunacy never end

Well now we have gone further down the road towards a completely crazy media. Joe Klein of Time magazine was on Chris Matthew's show on MSNBC and said that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck had come very close to committing sedition. The link to an article recounting this in detail by Jeff Poor of News Busters is connected to the title of this post. Another guest then added Rush Limbaugh to the list of those committing sedition.

Are these guys completely nuts? Well, I guess the answer is yes, but still, sedition? Sedition is a major crime which entails calling for the violent overthrow of the US government. So are we to understand that disagreeing with the policies of the Obamacrats is akin to calling for the violent overthrow of the US government?

Klein is an educated man who should clearly know better. While it is true that he only said this on Matthew's show, so few people other than Matthews immediate family saw it, it is still offensive that a network would show this or that Time would allow Klein to continue at the magazine. And Limbaugh -- he was attacked because he calls the Obama Administration the "regime." If these folks had bothered to ever listen to Limbaugh, they woudl know that he is doing this on purpose since many on the left criticized using that word -- even though they all used it endlessly with regard to the Bush administration.

As far as Matthews is concerned, one cannot expect much of a filter to be applied. After all, Chris is the one who got chills running up his leg when Obama spoke. He is also the one who said that after a recent Obama speech, he forgot for the moment that Obama is black. Do we all get to call Matthews a racist for this last remark? Imagine if Sarah Palin said that she forgot that Obama was black. The truth is that most of the racial thought in this country now comes from the left. The rest of the country has gotten over the fixation with race that was a staple of American society for so many years. Indeed, the Democrats were the biggest purveyors of racism during the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Bill Clinton, who the Obama folks called a racist -- but who clearly is not a racist, had as his mentor Senator Fullbright of Arkansas who fought bitterly against all of the civil rights legislation of the 60's and 70's. And who can forget Obama's mentor Jeremiah Wright whose rhetoric was about as racially charged as anyoone in the country.

I guess I am just tired of the nonsense and the double standard. First, it is nonsense to call the statements of Beck or Palin sedition. No sane person could believe that. Second, it is ridiculous that the press does not take on these folks and drive them out of their prominent roles in the "impartial" mainstream press. Over the top rhetoric is a staple of American politics (too bad), but accusations of crimes goes beyond this. It ought to stop in my opinion.