Newsmax.com has pulled the column it ran that called for a military coup against President Barack Obama. If you missed this controversy be sure to read THIS POST on TMV, and the debate in comments.
But it’s important to keep something in mind: not all conservatives agree with the increasingly shrill, escalating rhetoric of demonization — or view the Newsmax piece as anything but extremist and not particularly well-thought out writing.
READ THIS POST by a conservative who has done some Guest Voice posts on TMV.
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.