October 15, 2004
Ominous
Vitriol is one thing. I have been known to have a bit myself. Death threats are quite another.
I don't know whether you have been following the news about the sexual harassment case against Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly , one of the villains in Al Franken's book . The transcripts read like bad porn. At least we are clear about his sexual orientation, which, luckily for him, is hetero. By far the most disturbing part of the transcript is the veiled death threat to the plaintiff Andrea Mackris, and the not so veiled one to Al Franken.
In a different case, the editor of the Lone Star Iconoclast, a newspaper in Bush's hometown of Crawford Texas which endorsed John Kerry was interviewed on NPR's "Here and Now" -- a very good commentary can be found on The Ivy Bush . At the end of the interview, the editor said that when his paper endorsed Bush four years ago, he did not receive death threats from Gore supporters. That's one big difference.
Photo note: I thought this shot was sufficiently ominous, and liked the bloody color. It's a straw ornament, twisted.
Posted by Dakota at October 15, 2004 05:50 AM