Sorry, but there is NO EXCUSE for this. And if some nutjob talk show host on the left made similar comments, that person is equally reprehensible. So spare us the comments about so and so’s language. If someone suggests shooting someone, no matter how it is framed, then they do not deserve the audience they most assuredly will get for inflammatory comments such as this.
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.