I was sorting papers at work today. I was thinking about picking up James Wolcott's new book,
Attack Poodles, and I got thinking about Pundits.
Political Punditry has been around in some form since the 1980s (and probably even before then), but it's really taken off in the past decade with the rise of Fox News. Pundits are often very vicious in their attacks on "the other side", and some would argue that they've gotten especially vicious since 9/11. Which got me thinking.
How long is it before somebody takes it a step past rhetorical shouting matches (or in Ann Coulter's case, calling all liberals traitors) and into something much more extreme? I can't help but think that at some point, something could happen where someone really gets hurt, or worse, even killed, as in the case of
Alan Berg. I'm not necessarily saying Ann Coulter going to go on a shooting rampage--it could be a fan too. Do any of you think something like this could really happen? Or am I just too paranoid?