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The question that should be asked is who benefits from the presence of these comments? The rabid right. If they didn't exist, they would have to plant them. And perhaps some of them were planted by trolls in disguise.
What I don't understand is why when this is brought up, the representatives of the left don't simply have a cache of equally vile things said on neocon boards or blogs or radio transcripts? It is not like they're in short supply.
Everytime Kurtz or Malin says something, shouldn't the question be "How do you feel about Frank Gaffney's call for the execution of US Congressmen?" and then not let them off the hook until they either answer or denounce him.
