Drudge Report Flash: Air America Probed after Bush 'Gunshots'

As also quoted on WorldNetDaily, someone on "Air America", the liberal so-called answer to the Excellence In Broadcasting Network (Rush Limbaugh's radio show, for those of you in Rio Linda), put together a skit mentioning Bush in very unflattering terms and actually including gunfire and the sound of a gun being cocked. I quote:

A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked].

Now to be fair, I cannot vouch for that recording. Why? Well, Drudge included a link to what purported to be an MP3 recording of the skit. But all of my attempts to follow the link to save the content, or even to load it into my browser, have failed. The message: "The link has been removed or the web site has changed its name." Which, of course, is the cybernetic equivalent of "[Do, sol, ti!] We're sorry. The number you have called has been disconnected."

Are they crazy? I'm not going to speculate that anyone remotely connected with the network has a plot to kill the President. (I think that that shadowy Arab organization that calls itself "The Base" has such a plot, but that's not germane at the moment.)

But when I was finishing high school in Dallas, Texas, I had occasion to fly out of Dallas Love Field and the new Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport. At both facilities, back in the early days of metal detectors and luggage X-rays, every passenger could see signs at every checkpoint, that read as follows:

Comments about guns and bombs are taken seriously. Please no jokes.

And a government source told Drudge that even to joke about assassinating the President is a federal offense. Now if you don't believe that, then let me quote to you 18 USC 871:

(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

That section doesn't say a word about blowing off a joke about such a thing.

So here is my answer: [large rasping buzz, followed by the rumbling sound of a metal door in motion, ending in a clang.] Just think about what you're doing, or saying.