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Main | Benson Botches It. »    Glenn Reynolds has a line that he
uses regularly, about global warming. When, for example, Prince
Charles or Al Gore flies in a private jet to some conference to
lecture us all on the need to cut back for the sake of Gaia,
Reynolds says, "I'll believe it's a problem when the people
telling me it's a problem start acting like it's a problem."  A
similar standard might be applied to the problem of overheated
rhetoric. Do the left and their media allies think it's really a
problem, or are they just using the Tucson incident to silence
their critics?  If they honestly think it's a problem that they
wish to address, the Republic will clamp down on Benson, the
Star will quietly hand Fitz a pink slip, and the NYT will ask
Krugman to tone it down a bit.  Do you think I should hold my
breath while waiting for these things to happen?  I can still
remember one of his cartoons back in the early or mid-90s. A
family I was fairly cl