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On the other hand , if a man with a machine gun went into a women's studies group and opened fire, one could easily predict that x y and z would write endless reams about male hatred of women. It takes no insight, nor does it make Howard Kurtz predictatble or less credible to predict he, like many others, would be repelled by the advocacy of the assassination of Dick Cheney. The fact is that there is a strain of virulence in the anti-Bush movement that seems to equate him with the worst leaders of history, justifying extreme measures. These people of course either have no knowledge of history, or sense of proportion, or they simply have a disguised agenda nurtured since their pathetic college years as Marxist-Leninist fellow-travelling dopers, showing their college era empty heads have not developed into middle age.I think Howard Kurtz' critics can kiss his ass.