From Yeats:

[Are_grits_groceries]

Clearly there is no way to quantify the power of rhetoric, but it will be interesting to see if Mr. O’Reilly addresses the issue when he discusses Dr. Tiller’s killing on his program later today. Will Mr. O’Reilly express remorse, or will he argue that, in the end, even his words don’t really matter? In any event, should he be held responsible for the killing of a man who was hated in anti-abortion circles long before he began his rhetorical attacks?

Decades ago the Irish poet W.B. Yeats admitted to wrestling with the question of incitement in one of his last poems, “Man and the Echo.” In the poem, Yeats wrote about sleepless nights spent wondering if the fiery nationalist rhetoric in some of his early plays and poems might have helped to drive some men and women into violent rebellion and ultimately death:

I lie awake night after night
And never get the answers right.
Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?
Did words of mine put too great strain
On that woman’s reeling brain?

The notion of how much responsibility to take for the way words affect someone with a “reeling brain” seems relevant to the discussion today. The family of Scott Roeder, the suspect in Dr. Tiller’s killing arrested by the police in Kansas, released a statement saying that he “suffered from mental illness at various times in his life.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/doctor-was-target-of-oreillys-rhetoric/

I doubt O'Slimey worries. However, when he has called somebody out 28 times that would cause something I would think.

[KittyWampus]

1. The Collective Unconscious, airwaves and cable lines are essentially the same as Air

we all breath and water we all drink.

We give and take amongst ourselves. What we put out into the Universe has effect on all others.

We are like inlets to a great sea and are responsible for either polluting the water or filtering.

And Yeats hung around with a crowd that agreed with the above sentiment (Golden Dawn)

[janx]

2. ...

:hug: