We all remember David Feherty’s heinous remarks.
“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote toward the end of his column. “Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
CBS’ response to the Feherty incident:
CBS Sports quickly distanced itself from Feherty’s writing. “We want to be clear that this column for a Dallas magazine is an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned, endorsed or approved by CBS Sports,” spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade said.
CBS Sports is not televising the PGA Tour this week at The Players Championship, and Feherty did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
“David Feherty is an insightful and sometimes humorous commentator for CBS Sports’ golf coverage,” the PGA Tour said in a statement. “However, his attempt at humor in this instance went over the line, and his comments were clearly inappropriate. We hope he will use better judgment in the future.”
So CBS thinks Feherty’s opinion of that our military is just itching to assassinate the 3rd most ranking elected official in the United States is just a mere departure from his otherwise insightful and sometimes humorous analysis.
But you know what is going to happen tomorrow, don’t you? Rush Limbaugh and all his wanna-bes on right wing talk radio are going to go absolutely ballistic over Wanda Sykes’s questionable comments at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. No, not where she said that Rush was the 20th hijacker who missed the flight because he was strung out on Oxycontin. That is perfectly fair and no worse that what Rush dishes out on a daily basis on his show. Indeed, that comment is actually better since she was obviously joking where Rush is serious. Where she crossed the line is where she said “I hope his kidneys fail.” It is a step away from saying I hope he dies.
So tomorrow we will see the right wing go in full OUTRAGE mode over this. But when a right winger states that he knows for a fact that our military is intent on killing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid if they were ever lucky enough to be in the same elevator with them, well, that is just fine.
It is ok if you are a Republican.
That is the lesson here. Republicans can joke all they want about the deaths of liberals. But God help you if you joke about the death of Republicans.