In Wake of Arizona Shooting, Media Needs to Find the Forgotten Majority

"There is a need for some reflection here: What is too far now? What was too far when Oklahoma City happened is accepted now. There's been a desensitizing. These town halls and cable TV and talk radio, everybody's trying to outdo each other."

Those were the words of an unnamed Republican senator after America's latest shooting rampage, this one a political assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz. How sad--and telling--that the lawmaker refused to attach his or her name to such an important truis...