GOP rioters gum up the works

The GOP base today is worse than any sports rioters.

They no longer limit their frustration to overt opponents. Now they also fight their inner turmoil by assaulting journalists as well. The Palin rally where someone kicked a reporter and somebody pelted an MSNBC sound man with rocks is just one example.

Now, at a McCain rally in Virginia, CNN correspondent Ed Henry was attacked just as viciously. One of the GOP cultists yelled that Henry was a communist. Another threw a pack of gum at him, hitting him.

You can't make this stuff up, people: The Republicans are attacking the media! Yes, the same media that's fawned over almost every national GOP ticket of the past quarter-century.

Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth! What more from the media can they possibly ask for?

I guess the media is a convenient target. The media is influential but it's also reactive. If a storm against the right-wing consensus brews among the general public, surely it will come to light through the media (though certainly not without some distortion). Ever hear the saying that if you don't like the message, don't throw gum at the messenger?

If the right-wing mutiny continues at this rate, they're going to end up killing someone before long. I'm not joking.

The GOP base needs to start controlling its spoiled children more effectively - for the sake of itself, its opponents, the media, the country, and the public.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/22551/809/687/634956)