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Joan, the entire purpose of the right-wing hate rhetoric is to inflame someone with poor impulse control into living out the fantasies that "respectable" right-wingers can't commit or talk about overtly.
A while ago, the comment by golf reporter David Feherty in a Dallas magazine that "any U.S. soldier" with two bullets in his gun who found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi would put both of them into her. Thus did Feherty express the visceral, gut-churning hatred the right-wing white male feels for strong women. It was in fact a call for some deeply disturbed, not-to-bright white guy to live out the fantasy of eliminating such women. Feherty's apology means nothing. Pelosi is in real danger from that "joke."
