Tribune editorial nails it

I don't often agree with the Chicago Tribune editorial board. (Their endorsement of President Bush last fall is a case in point.) But today's editorial on white supremacist Matt Hale was right on target. Here are a few paragraphs:

[Hale] said he wanted the perpetrator "caught and prosecuted." He sounded genuinely offended that anyone would dare think that he could have anything to do with such a deed.
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Please. Spare us the crocodile tears.
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[T]he idea of Hale publicly deploring such a crime does beg for a review of his words and deeds.

Hale has preached hatred and winked at violence across Illinois and beyond. He has never accepted responsibility for the death and mayhem his words incited, much less expressed regret for any of it.

I wrote about some of that "death and mayhem" a few days ago here.