{"id":5637,"date":"2009-06-20T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/20\/homicidal-fantasies\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:45:23","slug":"homicidal-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/20\/homicidal-fantasies\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicidal Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through the filter of time … a repost that may still be interesting to you from two years ago. <\/em><\/p>\n

… are probably normal. I remember an HBES<\/a> conference in which we were subjected to a very boring talk. It was not boring at first. The speaker, a well known evolutionary psychologist, started out by asking for a show of hands as to how many people had homicidal fantasies now and then. In the room of about 300, a dozen hands went up. Then the talk started.
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It wasn’t really boring, it was just uninteresting and, in the opinion of many, not very good science. It was, in short, annoying. When the Q&A period began, the first question was not to the speaker, but rather, from one member of the audience (I don’t remember who) to the rest of the audience: “After that talk, how many people now<\/em> have homicidal fantasies?”<\/p>\n

A room full of hands were thrust into the air.<\/p>\n

Fine. That was in good fun. But I’m beginning to wonder about Michael Graham. First, the Oral Roberts graduate and former comedian, now a right wing radio pundit made comments about how he would like to see President Clinton and his wife gunned down in a coffee shop<\/a>. Now, from Think Progress, we learn that his homicidal rhetoric is both more intense and more eclectic. Here he is speaking on Chris Matthews Hardball<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\nAnyone listening to Hillary Rodham in her speech last week about patriotism, that screaming, screeching fingernail, I wanted to bludgeon her with a tire iron<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Beck, who interviewed Graham regarding the Sopranos spoof, also fantasized about committing murder, in this case, killing filmmaker Michael Moore in 2005: “I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could.”<\/p>\n

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Surprised? If so, I’m surprised at you! This is the way of the Right Wing. They are a violent bunch. They shoot physicians<\/a> at health care clinics, they shoot presidential candidates, they even occasionally shoot each other while hunting.<\/p>\n

By the way, in case you have not seen the Bill and Hillary Ad, here it is in full:<\/p>\n

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Man, Clinton would make a GREAT PRESIDENT<\/strong>. Any chance he’d run again?<\/p>\n

(The song, by the way, is “You and I” by Celine Dion. I never heard of Celine Dion. Is it a boy or a girl?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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