The Family Research Council has released footage of the FBI questioning Floyd Corkins, the shooter who targeted the organization last year. In this footage, Corkins says that he saw FRC listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Translation by FRC and its supporters will be that SPLC led Corkins to go on his attempted murder spree.

It seems that the metastasizing scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is finally having some repercussions on this side of the Atlantic, but naturally not in the way you’d think. Although ol’ Rupert himself confirmed this week that that he is “cooperating” with the US Department of “Justice” on the FCPA implications of the hacking/bribery/influence peddling outrages that have gripped Britain for months, this is the Holder Justice Department after all, so he’s not exactly quaking in his orthopedic loafers about that.

I wonder if O’Reilly and his foodie friend would be as brave as this young lad.

This clip is rather revealing. Note that Sheriff Dupnik never says “right-wing vitriol” or “conservative hate speech” — or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo. No, he simply called for more civility.