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Trash Talk Returns as Pols, Pundits Point Fingers Over Boston Bombing
by Howard Kurtz Apr 24, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
The week of shock and sympathy after the Boston bombing is over—now vitriol is in and unity is out. Howard Kurtz on how politicians and pundits need to find someone to blame.
Bill O’Reilly, by his own admission, was so “angry” that it was driving him “crazy.”
In the wake of the Boston bombing, he was upset at Tom Brokaw for saying the country should examine its use of drones that are killing civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, and turning young people against America.
“Let me get this straight, Tom,” the Fox News host thundered. “We shouldn’t use drones to attack al Qaeda leadership or Taliban terrorists hiding in the mountains of Pakistan? We shouldn’t do that? So how exactly would you fight the war against terrorism, Tom? Do you want to invade Pakistan?”
The ceasefire is over. The brief respite in our anger-fueled culture, suspended during a week of shock, sympathy, and community after the Boston Marathon attack, is history. Pundits and politicians are again pummeling each other over the bombing and lots of related issues.
Perhaps this isn’t surprising, given the rawness of these subjects and the polarized state of our politics. After 9/11, the country came together for many months, but the Boston carnage wasn’t of the same magnitude, and the return to business as usual has been far quicker.
full article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/24/trash-talk-returns-as-pols-pundits-point-fingers-over-boston-bombing.html
