I tend to think of myself as unshockable, but time and again events show me the error in my ways and I realise that I still can be shocked. Perhaps it’s a good thing, after all.
I was, if I may say so, shocked but not overly surprised to see that the recent murder of a Doctor who specialised in abortions was greeted with grim satisfaction on Fox “News” (I have to put the word in quotation marks and I don’t understand how they are authorised to qualify themselves as a “news” program).
Indeed the screen was filled by people who were quite literally foaming at the mouth in explaining how the doctor deserved what he got. I don’t remember the names of these correspondents, except for Mr. O’Reilly, but there is also a youngish, rapier thin lady who seems to have two sets of teeth and all the charm of an alligator. I remember her because she used to go into veritable paroxysms at the mention of some names, such as Michael Moore or Jon Stewart, and she frightened me a bit, thinking I could possibly meet her in a dark alley during one of my frequent visits to the U.S.
I fully understand that the issue of abortion raises strong, justified emotions (on both sides of the argument), but in my view the gist of the reportage was oriented in the direction of persuading viewers that this was not murder, but a richly deserved execution (not, of course, in so many words).
Isn’t this what Al Qaeda and the Taliban are supposed to be about?
Is a new breed of “Christian Taliban” emerging from the “Bible belt”?
I hope not, because Christian fundamentalists frighten me much more than their counterparts of other faiths.
mercoledì 3 giugno 2009
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