Hear that, Bill O'Reilly? Rush? Mr. Beck?

From "The Progress Report":

"Paul Krugman writes today that, 'right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.' He argues, 'Fox News and the RNC...have gone out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the last time a Democrat held the White House.'"

And people are dying because of it.

To wit: In November last year, a minister was shot and killed just outside his church in Kentucky; yet another pastor was killed during his Sunday service, right in his church in Illinois in early March; Dr. George Tiller was killed in his church in Wichita and just yesterday, of course, a US Park police officer, one Stephen T. Johns, was killed at, of all places, the national Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.

Let's hope this is the end of these killings and not just the beginning.

It's a terrific, true and poignant read.

See it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/opinion/12krugman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th