Roseanne Vs. Rush

Are these people serious? Conservatives in Limbaugh's huge audience surely laughed at the giddy singing over the thought of Democratic self-immolation at the polls. Would any of them seriously make plans to spend a week of vacation in Denver throwing bricks through storefront windows or breathing tear gas deeply? Voting for Hillary in the primaries through Operation Chaos is about as naughty as they are willing to be.

Are some leftists so hopelessly naive as to believe Limbaugh's listeners are being prepared to burn down buildings and trade blows with the cops? Believe it or not, the answer is in the affirmative.

On MSNBC, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann predictably piled on Rush. Olbermann asked: "Could Limbaugh be prosecuted for incitement to riot?" Always the amateur historian, he wondered if Limbaugh was a descendant of the anarchists who encouraged the Haymarket bombing in Chicago in 1886, who were hanged as murderers by proxy. We've "come a long way" legally since then, Olbermann declared, perhaps with a bit of mourning, but still, "do you think that Limbaugh has any idea that were he to repeat what he said on the air, say the day before the convention, or during it, he might actually be morally or legally responsible for incitement to riot?"

What phonies these "outraged" media partisans are. Olbermann & Co. utterly ignore Roseanne Barr earnestly calling for a radical rerun of "trouble" on Air America Radio, whose audience naturally matches the radicalism of the "Recreate '68" goon squads. But Rush's dittoheads? Run for your lives!

Maybe Rush should be prosecuted after all. Is any American entitled to have this much fun at liberals' expense during a campaign season? Surely there's something in McCain-Feingold, or maybe in the Americans With Disabilities Act to address this abuse.