Touché. News Anchor Shuts Down Guest Who Told Her To Shut Up Note to Hani al-Seba’i, an Islamist scholar living in London: if you want your views to be taken seriously, don’t tell the anchor interviewing you to “shut up” and that she’s “beneath you.” During a segment earlier this month … Read at Google+

Amazingly prescient: Hofstadter would be horrified at the current state of American politics, because the paranoids are running Congress but not really doing anything. Paranoia in American Politics The extremism that we see today is nothing new, and Hofstadter sums it up well here. The difference is that it seems the paranoids have gained enough power in government to make every issue, no matter how small, an existential struggle for survival regarding which only total victory is an acceptable outcome. Originally shared by […] Read at Google+