Mondays creep up on us entirely too quickly. But they always arrive and we deal with them…
Today was a day I had been dreading, as I was truly frightened about what it might bring. Not because it’s Monday, but because today is April 19, 2010 — the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. It was a day that gun worshipers decided was a fitting day to hold pro-gun rallies in and near our nation’s capital.
Timothy McVeigh apparently chose April 19 as the date to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City because two years earlier, the Branch Davidian compound stand-off was ended by the government. And, according to Rachel Maddow’s show right now on MSNBC, the spark that started the American Revolution happened on April 19, 1775.
The crazies that are being led around by the nose by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, etc are just ignorant and unhinged enough to use a day this this to do something equally violent and obscene. I am breathing a small sigh of relief that now, at around 9:30pm, we’re still standing… somewhat.
On tonight’s show, I was joined by blogger/broadcast Bob Cesca. He’s had a couple of recent Huffington Post pieces (part 2 here) about Glenn Beck and the danger he poses to the rest of us.
I turned to Crooks & Liars‘ Nicole Belle for a Sunday show round-up, and Karoli for the scoop on the new Kelsey Grammer-fronted hatefest “Right Network.” Yikes, as if the “right” didn’t have enough control of the airwaves…