While listening to the Left’s sanctimonious condemnation of conservative media for allegedly influencing political violence, and the anguished hand-wringing over the supposed recent decline in the quality of political discourse in this country, it’s hard to forget Alec Baldwin’s December 1998 tirade on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. Recall that Baldwin regaled a wildly cheering audience–an audience he attempted to quiet so that he could continue his rant–with the “humorous” advocacy that entire families of those involved in judicial proceedings against Bill Clinton be murdered in partisan mob violence. Big joke, eh Amigo?
Baldwin, of course, having rung the bell, later invoked the progressive King’s-X of an “apology”.
I wonder whether those in the wildly cheering O’Brien audience that night are among the chorus now lamenting the claimed excesses of conservative media, the Tea Party, etc., or whether the whole sordid Baldwin episode is just another hypocritical inconvenience to them.
