I can't find a clip or transcript online, but I briefly turned to Sean Hannity's show last night and he was talking to Mark Fuhrman -- yes, that Mark Fuhrman -- about the Boston bombings. Their take?
#Hannity & his pet cop #Furman both say they hate to get political about #Boston bombing but wade into an attack on gun control. #Buzzards
— Profweb (@profweb) April 16, 2013
As I recall, Hannity piously said, "I hate bring politics into this," and then went on to argue that there's no point in having gun control laws because someone who wants to kill a lot of people can always build a bomb (as if we haven't learned from the would-be Times Square bomber, not to mention the Columbine killers, that bombs aren't that easy to build -- oh, and please note that while the injury toll in Boston is horrible, Adam Lanza's death toll, if we include Lanza himself, is nine times the death toll in Boston). Fuhrman also hated to bring politics into this, but he agreed.
Cue Atlantic house libertarian Conor Friedersdorf:
Wait, *that* Mark Fuhrman is a Fox News contributor? Are you kidding me?
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 16, 2013
Excuse me, Conor? You cover politics for a living, for money, and you just found this out? Even though Fuhrman has made frequent appearances on Fox for years?
Y'know, Conor, maybe if you watched a little Fox once in a while, you might understand why some of us liberals are less willing than you to snuggle up to right-wingers when they make their occasional forays into sanity on issues such as drones. You just noticed that Fox employs Fuhrman? I'd say you've gone about half an inch into the rot. The rot goes very, very deep.
You ought to immerse yourself in it. Listen to talk radio all day for a week. Watch Fox all evening. In your spare time, pore over some right-wing Web sites. Bathe in the divisiveness and the conspiratorialism and the sheer, unbridled hate. Then maybe you'll understand why we have a hard time when you tell us what a swell guy Rand Paul is.
