I saw a documentary about the OK City bombing this morning...

It's still upsetting.

I remember that Liddy and Limbaugh and other right-wing radio hosts spent years demonizing the government and government employees. If you were a government employee, you were evil - you were responsible for the Branch Davidians and Ruby Ridge. They told people that their rights and their guns would be taken away from them, and that all government employees were implicit in this. They stoked the paranoia and fury of right-wing lunatics to an absolute fever pitch.

Then, a couple of right-wing domestic terrorists parked a truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 168 people, including 19 children in the day care center, died. 30 more children were orphaned. 189 more children lost one parent.

Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were monsters who thought that they would be heroes. They thought they were patriots. Perhaps they hatched their ideas while Liddy was advising his listeners to shoot ATF agents in the head because they had body armor. Perhaps they hatched their ideas while Limbaugh was on a tear about how the government didn't care about democracy and was set on establishing a dictatorship.

And what did Limbaugh and Liddy do? They protested that they weren't real political commentators; they were "entertainers." Limbaugh showed the same character that led to his three divorces, the same dedication to his principles that led him to condemn drug users while hooked on Oxycontin. Liddy showed the same character that he displayed during the Nixon administration.

They displayed the most pervasive philosophy of the W administration: We will claim no responsibility for our outrageous dialogue, claims, or actions. Cowards, all.

Somehow, one short decade later, this country has completely let them off the hook. Somehow, conservatives and freeper-types have managed to justify their slavering devotion to these demagogues. Somehow, they've been cleansed of responsibility. I don't know how. I do know this, though: as long as there's an audience for Limbaugh, as long as there's an audience for Coulter, as long as there's an audience for Hannity, as long as there's an audience for FoxNews, as long as there's a www.freerepublic.com, then each and every one of those empty chairs that sit in the memorial in Oklahoma City drips with the saliva of right-wingers that spit on their memory.

I will also say that the people you mention are complicit in all of this mean spiritedness. It should be if you have nothing good to say then keep your damn mouth shut. When I was just a kid in school you were just as guilty if you agged someone on to do something wrong, and that is what these people are doing, what happened to this.