This, of course, has not stopped the various factions -- conservative, liberal, Republican, Democrat, pro-gun, antigun -- from using the occasion to hop on a soapbox and start slinging accusations.
But the item that caught my attention this week was the reported e-mail exchange between Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. If you haven't heard or read about it, write "Palin Beck e-mail" in the search box of your favorite search engine.
To say that Beck is given to hyperbole is akin to saying elephants have big ears and long trunks. But I'd have to say this time he was off the charts.
Beck encouraged Palin to hire some security to protect herself and her family because -- get this -- if something happened to Palin the republic might fall.
Oh, yeah? This republic withstood wars that threatened to unmake it, including a little donnybrook in the 1860s that started because of an express intention to split up the republic. Iit withstood presidential assassination attempts and assassinations, the lunacy of a couple of morons who blew up little children in Oklahoma and 9/11, among other things.
But if something happens to La Sarah, it's going to fall apart? I don't think so.
C'mon, Glenn. Do you really hold the American public with such little regard?
Someone explain to me again why anyone listens to this guy.
