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To: NAG1 who wrote (153933)	1/11/2011 10:00:18 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 542256

Incendiary language needs to stop in our politics and in our media. But our politics and media are now just part of the entertainment industry from the consumer/voter's POV, and we know how well violence and melodrama sell there. A classic Pogo problem.

To: NAG1 who wrote (153933)	1/11/2011 10:54:44 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542256

The discussion started with my objecting to the way the left was politicizing the tragedy and trying to afix blame on Palin in particular and the right wind in general. I viewed it as illogical because it quickly became apparent the shooter was a mental case. That was the crux of the argument. Everything else, inc. commentary about who did what on the left, flowed from that and was tangential. So I'm not obsessed about balancing the rhetoric. I'm obsessed over the fact the left in general behaved badly re this tragedy by attempting to create a strawman and score political points with a false meme. Krugman was the worst with his 'eliminationist' strawman and is now forever in my mind as a disgrace to Princeton.