Of sowing and of reaping
by Tom Sullivan
It was a bit of delicious irony yesterday to see a Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood over those hoaxed “fetal tissue” videos turn around and instead indict the anti-abortion activists who made them:
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were indicted by the grand jury for tampering with a governmental record, said prosecutors for the county in which Houston is located. The felony charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
As Digby observed, there’s no telling what “tampering with a governmental record” means in this case.
There was more irony last night when CNN host Chris Cuomo asked Glenn Beck whether he bore any responsibility for the emergence of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential front-runner. Beck described Trump as a “dangerous man”:
“But here’s the thing,” Cuomo pointed out. “Is there a little bit of reap what you sow in some of this with the GOP, that engendering an oppositional mode towards government, in ratcheting up negativity as a mainline discourse, you wound up somewhat birthing Donald Trump?”
“And now some of those people who were angry about what was going on and telling people to be angry, now they’ve got somebody who is harnessing the power of exactly that, and you’re disappointed,” the CNN host said.
Beck insisted that he had “warned against this.”
Beck has also endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the would-be Stephen King ghoulie whom a legion of non-friends and former co-workers describe as an insufferable “pompous asshole,” proving Beck’s lack of either judgment or taste.