Then some things really aren't particularly funny:

The Big Hate
 by Paul Krugman

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 Excerpt:
Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that
current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s - a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that
culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the RNC denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out
conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists.

But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white
supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.

There is, however, one important thing that the D.H.S. report didn’t say: Today, as in the early years of the
Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the
conservative media and political establishment.

Now, for the most part, the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. haven’t directly incited violence, despite Bill O’Reilly’s
declarations that “some” called Dr. Tiller “Tiller the Baby Killer,” that he had “blood on his hands,” and that he was a
“guy operating a death mill.” But they have gone out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and
apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the last time a Democrat held the White House.