Friedman unhinged.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman draws a comparison to the political climate today to that which led to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Friedman bases this on, among other things, a recent Facebook poll that asks if President Obama should be killed because his health care proposal (which is already DOA in Senate committees).

Indeed, go no further than Hollywood’s 2006 movie titled Death of a President. The synopsis, according to Internet Movie DataBase is as follows: “Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.”

Perhaps Friedman’s concern regarding the lack of civility is noble, but the funny thing is I don’t recall Friedman or other columnists on the left writing that vitriol from Bush’s opponents might lead to his assassination, even as they produced that pipedream as “art.”