Civility update

Published February 16, 2011 5:00am ET



Its been just over a month since Congressman Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in a grocery store along with several other people.

The rhetoric at the time was insultingly childish, blaming conservatives and Republicans for the actions without the slightest effort to find out the truth.  When the facts came out and the lunatic who shot up the store was revealed to not only never have had anything to do with the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, or Sarah Palin, but as much as he was political was left leaning, the pundits barely broke stride.

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