One Degree of Separation: Dick Cheney

The next time you see Vice Decider Dick Cheney (which, unless you watch Fox News or listen to Sean Hannity, may not be for a while, as he is a notoriously timid little church-mouse when it comes to defending his opinions in a real hardball interview), please remember that two days before he carelessly shot a friend of his in the face, he was a guest at the annual Conservative PAC convention and dinner, where the featured speaker was Ann Coulter. Ms. Coulter was raucously applauded as she joked, "I think our motto should be post-9-11, 'raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'". She also joked about murdering an ex-President, and encouraged our terrorist enemies to murder Supreme Court judges:

"There was one time I had a shot at Clinton. I thought 'Ann, that's not going to help your career.'" ... "If we find out [a terrorist] is going to attack the Supreme Court next week, can't we tell Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalito?"

While we're on the subject of popular and mainstream right-wing personalities who have invited our enemies to attack our country and murder our fellow citizens, please keep in mind Bill O'Reilly's anti-American hatred -- especially if you live in San Francisco:

And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead. [The Radio Factor, 11/8/05]