Admittedly, the age of real-time social networking allows pretty much anyone with a computer or a smart phone to be heard worldwide -- no matter how fanatically unhinged he or she might be. But the Secret Service doesn't take too kindly to talk like this, regardless of who's saying it or how much it may have been a product of the emotion of the moment.
Make no mistake, though: If you think this is the only incitement to violence circulating around the internet right now, as the final vote on the health care reform bill approaches and the right knows it's going to lose and lose big, you haven't been paying attention. This is just the most blatant.
Jezebel: Conservative Blogger Calls for Obama's Assassination on Twitter/3.21.10
(Update: Yup, the Secret Service confirms: "We are aware of the actual posting and are actively investigating." I think there's somebody at the door there, Solly. Might want to get that.)
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