Wishing Death

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Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham announced on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and according to The National Ledger, she came through her cancer surgery successfully and will be back on the air tomorow. That's good. I'm happy for her. Cancer is a terrible disease and my heart goes out to anyone that is afflicted with this terrible illness.

I didn't write about this when I saw it originally posted on Newsmax.com because while I felt sorry for her, it wasn't the sort of thing I tend to report on. I favor more stories with universal appeal and the medical woes of one woman, albeit a famous one, doesn't interest me as far as what I employ this site for. However, while surfing blogs Wed night, I came across a site called "Crooks and Liars" that appears to be pretty liberal, which is fine and the author of the site handled the story well enough.

"We may disagree on many things Laura, but be well, good luck and come back soon."

If that had been the end of it I wouldn't be writing this post. This brief post garnered 30 comments by the time I stumbled upon it. Some of the comments were:

"awesome, I hope it's uncurable. Bitch"

"I wish Ann Coulter got it instead but then she is a man and men rarely get breast cancer."

"It's too bad they caught it in time."

"Wish for Ann, Testicular cancer"

"So I guess that having an abortion and being an lying right wing skank can cause breast cancer?"

"She's still hot." ::::shrugs:::

In all fairness, some of the comments simply wished her a speedy recovery while lamenting her politics while others were criticized for wishing death on the woman.

I have some questions here, how does being this way help you sell your ideas to a public that can be convinced to vote for George W. Bush...twice? How does wishing death on a political entertainer help your cause? Exactly how do suppose to win over people with that sort of rhetoric? Is this really how you want to be seen - as people who wish death on those who have philosophical differences from you?

I'm sure somebody is going to point out something that Rush Limbaugh said once upon a time, which they think will justify the vitriol being aimed at Ms. Ingraham. It doesn't. If Limbaugh or Hannity said something similar to the comments above about a liberal entertainer then they were wrong. However, political discourse shouldn't be denigrated down to "two wrongs make a right." For God's sake people, grow up. Like Henry Rollins once said, "Rise above!"