I’m not a big fan of the lefty media critics at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, but they are right to condemn this nutty and offensive monologue from aging talk radio personality Paul Harvey:

“We didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever.

“And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which–feeling guilty about their savage pasts–eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.”

Who knew our only choices are being “made of sugar candy” or genocide and slavery? And people say talk radio is simplistic!

(According to FAIR, Harvey also appeared to suggest we should have used nuclear weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan.)