The latest from Jonathan Strong and Daily Caller in what is a promised “series” of JournoList leaks features liberal reporters and opinion leaders actively wishing for the death of Rush Limbaugh, calling for the FCC to ban Fox News, comparing the tea partiers to Nazis, and even a shout-out of sorts to Cornerite Victor Davis Hanson.

In response to an NRO post on immigration authored by Hanson, blogger and Democratic strategist Ed Kilgore called it “the kind of Old White Guy cultural reaction that is at the heart of the Tea Party Movement.”

“It’s very close in spirit to the classic 1970s racist tome, The Camp of the Saints, where White Guys struggle to make up their minds whether to go out and murder brown people or just give up.”

NPR public radio* producer Sarah Spitz, by contrast, used the list only to express her desire to murder a single beige person — or rather merely watch him die of a heart attack:

. . .Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

(Digression: It is fine not to be a fan of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, but for pete’s sake, liberals, enough with the death wishes. Do you think any mainstream conservative writer has, even in e-mail, fantasized about being complicit in the death of Keith Olbermann or Michael Moore?* Heck, I’ve never even had a single nutty reader indulge in that in an e-mail. Seriously, leave Rush alone. The left is at its best when it’s less “And I hope that you die / And your death’ll come soon / I will follow your casket / In the pale afternoon” and more “What’s so funny ’bout peace love and understanding?” End digression.)

Elsewhere on the list, a number of members discussed ways of limiting the influence of Fox News, and UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff even recommended pulling Fox’s FCC license and explicitly politicizing media access to the White House.

UPDATE: I broke the first rule of political blogging: Never say “our side would never do such a thing.” More than one reader has already pointed out to me that in 2005, Glenn Beck did playfully suggest he was considering killing Michael Moore as a “patriotic act.”

*UPDATE II: The Caller story incorrectly identified Spitz as an NPR employee. She actually worked for KCRW in California, an independent station that carries NPR content.