Forget about jumping the shark. Our politics did that a long time ago. Now it has jumped the whale:
No, this is not an Onion article or a report on a SNL skit.
Yes, a heckler did seriously call Barack Obama the “antichrist” before the Secret Service removed him.
You can’t lower the bar. We’re way below the bar.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.