It is with no small sense of irony that I write this post. After all, I'm a guy who just wrote a satirical piece about killing the elderly. Nonetheless, my own examination of fraudulent health care reform claims can't be compared with Ann Coulter riffing about killing Rahm Emanuel's brother. Or Glenn Beck joking about how he'd poison Nancy Pelosi. Or Beck joking about killing many other people. Or Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Lou Dobbs, or the hundreds of copy-cat angry right-wing death porn stars out there "joking" about murder daily. Because the "jokes" about killing liberals and the "wacky fun" of demonizing liberals and blaming them for every ill on the planet are coming fast and furious, 24/7.

Yes, folks, we are right in the middle of a Right-Wing Death Porn shitstorm. With the amount of Death Porn floating about, I believe I should be able to watch Bisexual Interracial Amputee Friday's on TNT. Because the standards are just out the window at this point. Think about it, people like Ann Coulter are going on Extreme Right-Wing TV Shows and joking about killing liberals - even though right-wing extremists have just recently gone out and killed based on their hate of liberals.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm very hesitant to call for anyone to be called off the air. After all, the ability of soulless douchebags to rise in the media industry is part of what makes America great. Right? But I must say I am heartened to see advertisers jump off Beck's bandwagon. Do Geico and other companies really need to be associated with someone who daily promotes civil war and civil unrest?

I also must say I am heartened by CNN looking to smarten up the debate some by axing know-nothing radio hosts:

CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts. "Complex issues require world class reporting," Klein is quoted as saying, adding that talk radio hosts too often add to the noise, and that what they say is "all too predictable."

I'll overlook Klein's world-class hypocrisy in not firing Dobbs - an all-too predictable radio host - because I'm willing to take whatever we can get. Because as I see it, there will be soulless hate-mongers in our media forever. It's just gotten a bit frightening that they've gone so high-profile.

A well-armed nation is in serious economic turmoil. People are looking to freak out. Hate has become the nation's only renewable resource. And it's not like it's happening in a void. Have you noticed that right-wingers don't say jack anymore about the DHS report that warned of extreme right-wing violence? Because they know that it has and will happen again. They just keep stoking the fires, regardless. Paychecks override morality for many. And Right-Wing Death Porn pays the bills.

David Neiwert has done a lot of work on Eliminationism, and is worth a read on the subject. The simple fact is that there will always be Coulters, Becks, Hannitys and O'Reillys out there. Part of being a free nation rests on not allowing them to destroy the fabric of the nation. But it would be a lot easier if a few more big-media executives would stop supporting the Right-Wing Death Porn Machine.

-WKW

Crossposted at William K Wolfrum Chronicles