Regrettably, I have to report to you that we are now the United States of hatred.

I knew it, but this Rush Limbaugh death proves it beyond any reasonable doubt,

and it's a story that has implications far beyond Mr. Limbaugh. So I want to take you through

this story in a methodical fact-based way, so you see the big picture about a very corrosive thing that has now got a grip on the entire nation.

So we begin with what happened yesterday right after the announcement of Rush Limbaugh's death, made by his wife, Catherine Catherine on his radio program. I sent out a tweet,

and here was my tweet, quote, the legacy of Rush Limbaugh is clear, the most successful

radio broadcaster in history. Mr. Limbaugh provided a conservative balance against the dangerous left-wing corporate media machine.

History counts few entertainers among those who made a difference in the country.

Rush Limbaugh did.

Okay.

So if you want to, by the way, get on my tweet.

It's just at Bill O'Reilly.

So I think that was a fairly

objective assessment of Rush Limba, whether you love him or hate him. That's all true. It's

fact-based. And it was my responsibility as a journalist to provide some perspective

after a person of his stature dies. It wasn't my purview to comment

on what he had said, what had happened to him. None of that. Just basically to say what was true

about the man and how he affected the United States of America.

That's journalism. That's what you do when there is an event.

But that's not what we have.

So the second part of this is right after I tweeted, a million other people tweeted, many of whom put vile postings on Twitter

and Facebook and all the social media. And I mean hateful, vile stuff. None of that was sanctioned

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