MORE ON RUDOLPH
violence and the radicals

As I indirectly mentioned before, two words you wont hear on the tv news describing Eric Rudolph are "Christian extremist".

There's something else, too, that the news media will not directly discuss.

Much was made at the time of the huge anti-war protests this winter, and how many of them were organized, directly and indirectly, by groups such as ANSWER. Conservative (and often mainstream, if this is not redundant) pundits tried to discredit the protests by pointing to the leftist leanings of the people of ANSWER and their equivalents. My point is this: In general, the most radical extent to which the American far left manifests itself appears to be non-violent protests, and maybe the occasional shattering of a Starbucks window. The far right, on the other hand? Eric Rudolph, Buford Furrow and Tim McVeigh. And we're the problem. Jeebus.

Again, not that you'll hear this point on television.