There is a very real danger of violence to Obama. That's the unfortunate price that elected officials, in this case a new president, who inspire hope must pay.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Since election day, the number of threats against the president-elect, and racial or violent incidents directed at his supporters, have soared, and the Secret Service is concerned.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media
This is not the first time we've seen a prominent journalist be slated for assassination, or assassinated.
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
I expect this kind of garbage from Limbaugh and Savage and Malkin. It's their job to spew evil. But the responsibilities of a public servant are to keep his activities within bounds that don't threaten the civil safety.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
I spent much of my early radio air time trying to "wake up" the citizenry of Anchorage. I was impatient, frustrated, chiding at times. On June 5th, th...
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
When does character assassination cross the line and begin to encourage physical assassination?
Chip Berlet | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
What really scares me is that right-wing talk show hosts and other media scaremongers are creating a hyperbolic rhetorical environment in which credible threats are likely to be generated. To me that is the real uncovered media story.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.09.2008 | Entertainment
In my conversation with O'Sullivan about his new documentary film, he tells me, "We truly don't know who killed Bobby Kennedy, which is really greatly disturbing."
Jillian York | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
"By raising the specter that someone could assassinate Barack Obama as her reason for continuing to campaign, she really has show how utterly unsuitable she is for public office. It's a shame."
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...
Mary Lyon | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media
Liz Trotta's apology for the Obama/Osama-assassination remark had all the sensitivity of a Dick Cheney torture-rationalization meeting.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
One of the questions the Secret Service should be asking is: Were Liz Trotta and FOX News criminally negligent in using the public airwaves to joke about threatening a presidential candidate?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
Trotta said she was sorry, while also suggesting her remark was nothing particularly unusual or awful in this campaign year.
Joe Vogel | Posted 05.26.2008 | Media
You simply do not joke about the assassination of a United States Senator and probable Democratic presidential nominee. You also do not deliberately identify him with a terrorist.
David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Dropping out of the race won't neutralize this poison Hillary has thrown into the wind. She must pledge to the American people that she won't seek the presidency if something happens to Obama.
Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
I am a close personal friend of Mark Penn and Harold Wolfson. Recently, I was permitted to read, but not copy, a secret campaign memo co-authored by ...
Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.24.2008 | Home
We've already lost too many great leaders who were trying to change the status quo. After Hillary's recent crass comments, her career had better be over.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
Any references to the assassination of Robert Kennedy are especially chilling for those of us who were, so to speak, "there."
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics
Where is the apology to America still traumatized by the assassinations of Martin, Malcolm, John and Bobby? To the African American community still traumatized by the fear that the same could happen to Barack?
Ian Welsh | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
The level of near hysteria, of complete unwillingness to read Clinton's words in any context with any good will that is sweeping large portions of the blogosphere is tiresome.
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
This newest quote from Senator Clinton today ought to be the final inciting incident for superdelegates -- the scream that stirs the avalanche.
David Rees | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton has a point: June is a great month for political assassinations. Why drop out of the race before all the assassins have had their say?
Xenia Dormandy | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics