Brendan Nyhan

Tom Tomorrow on a Coulterized world

A week or two ago, I decried what Newsmax described as Bill O’Reilly’s “fantasy” about terrorists beheading Michael Kinsley:

This is the Coulter-ization of political discourse. It’s not normal — or acceptable — to “joke” about the murder of your political opponents. When will we cast these people out of public life?

The often brilliant Tom Tomorrow has a scathing cartoon about what will happen if we keep treating this kind of hate talk as acceptable. The cartoon is on Salon Premium, so you’ll have to watch a short ad, but it’s well worth the wait.