Hugh Hewitt’s Dec. 7 commentary about the creep of cruelty into our society is a study in false equivalence and an erroneous defense of our current president.
There’s a big difference between cruelty and satire. Hewitt acknowledges that politics has a long history of “condemnations, invective and insults … even provoking duels,” but blames television for bringing cruelty into our everyday lives.
Long before television, cruelty served as live entertainment. Bread and circuses in ancient Roman times, public executions for hundreds of years. All live shows on display for the viewing public. None of it funny.