Politics: Smells Like Hypocrisy

Everybody go read G. Beato's Soundbitten today. He's got the dirt:

Steve Dunleavy, who, like Andrew Sullivan, appears to have a decades-long, forcefully passionate, but tragically unconsummated love affair with the United States, suggests that celebrities with anti-war views should be killed for expressing their opinions.

An unsigned editorial in the brazenly anti-American New York Post suggests that the apt penalty for making stupid anti-war remarks is execution by militia.

Lousiana radio DJ Richard Condon sics his loyal listeners of sacrifice on the participants of an anti-war rally and exclaims, "I think these son-of-a-buggers deserve a bullet in the head."

Several days ago in Florida, 61-year-old Ronald F. Mellor shot 33-year-old bar manager Evgeniy Conykevich (or "Komyakevich," as it is spelled in other reports), reportedly after arguing about the war. Mellor and his semi-automatic handgun were for it; the unlucky bar manager, a Russian immigrant, was against it.

Should Steve Dunleavy, the New York Post, and Richard Condon be charged as accessories to the crime?

Read the whole thing.