FIGHTING THE LUNACY – AT 11:10 P.M. ET:  I monitored some of the news networks tonight, knowing that, on this first weeknight after the Arizona shooting, they'd be reacting to the event.

Bill O'Reilly at Fox News showed why he's so successful – launching a stunning, take-no-prisoners attack on the vile individuals and institutions of the left who have tried to turn the Arizona shootings to their own advantage.  O'Reilly went after The New York Times, Times columnist Paul Krugman, assorted politicos, and MSNBC.  O'Reilly has never been better, and it's this kind of fight back that we need to counter the bullies. 

More and more is coming out about the accused shooter, none of it linking him with any political movement.  The leftist propagandists have tried to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, but there has not surfaced any connection whatever between the accused perpetrator and either the Tea Party or Governor Palin.  The linkage is outrageous, a classic example, as Bill Kristol has said, of old-style McCarthyism.

Meanwhile, Anderson Cooper at CNN treated us to an interview with that profound philosopher and public intellectual, Bill Maher.  The once-funny comedian, now just a comedian, informed us that people who call for smaller government will produce a society with less mental-health care, but one in which lunatics can buy guns.  I was moved by the power of Maher's logic.  Maher also suggested that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated because of angry rhetoric against him during the Civil War.  I've no doubt that Maher had Fox News in mind. 

Oh, to top off his commentary, Maher said that the gun lobby should be called the assassins' lobby.  I'm sure the new signs will go up tomorrow.

Of course, Anderson Cooper gave Maher the full respect accorded to a sane person.  Anderson Cooper has always struck me as a nice guy, probably decent, but whose journalistic skills would qualify for Junior Scholastic.

It's the fight back that was the key item in tonight's coverage.  We have to make sure it continues.

January 10, 2011