Pipe bomb threatens Spokane MLK Day parade
One of the reasons that the talking heads can continue to play the "both sides" card and pretend that political violence isn't (yet) a problem in our culture is through carefully ignoring the unpleasant evidence that the atmosphere of conspiratorial thinking and old-fashioned misogyny--both issues in terms of partisan politics, as only one side really goes out of its way to cater to these kinds of thinking---played a role in Jared Loughner's choice to shoot up a Democratic congressperson's constituent meeting. But the other reason they can play ignorant is even more sobering, because they're exploiting an otherwise good situation. And that reason is that law enforcement is doing a really good job of preventing right wing nuts from attacking large numbers of people.