chill, baby chill

That's what Bob Herbert suggests to Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and the rest of the bigoted demagogues who stir the desperate uneducated masses in the last line of his editorial today, the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Right next to it is a wonderfully concise statement by Charles M. Blow whose best passage, in my view, is the parenthesis about the irony:

"ground zero" … Lincoln Memorial = sacred grounds

"ground zero" "mosque" = desecration, strident outcry

Beck's "Restoring Honor" speech = perfectly acceptable