While right-wing media are certainly not legally culpable for any recent attacks, they are responsible for promoting a culture of fear, paranoia, and violence that is anti-government in the extreme -- a culture in which extremists, including von Brunn and Richard Poplawski, who fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers, were apparently immersed. Poplawski was convinced that the Obama administration was going to take away his guns. Even though no evidence of such a policy exists, right-wing commentators and news organizations made the claim repeatedly before the shooting and have continued to do so since.

Predictably, conservative media figures responded to the museum shooting by attempting to shift attention away from themselves and onto political liberals and even President Obama himself. On June 10, the day of the museum shooting, financial analyst and radio host Jim Lacamp said on Fox News that "we have an administration that's really done a lot of class warfare, a lot of cla

"culture of fear, paranoia, and violence that is anti-government in the extreme"

Sounds like we can start calling them anarchists.

What do you mean "start"? Those right-wing nutbars have always been anarchists. Even when they have control of the government, they are doing everything they can to destroy the American government, in favour of corporate rule.

Remember, every time they say "Small government", what they are really saying is "government for the rich, by the rich, at the expense of everyone else."