SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW: If it’s spring during a presidential election year, a not-so-young pundit’s thoughts apparently turn to assassinating the candidates:

Shot:

Appearing on Beck’s radio program this morning, Thor said:

I am about to suggest something very bad. It is a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer.

With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as President? If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitution-mandated authority as president, I should say.

If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office? And I don’t think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office, because you won’t be able to do it through Congress.

Beck responded, “I would agree with you on that.”

—AUDIO: Glenn Beck, Brad Thor discuss a ‘patriot’ taking out Donald Trump, The American Mirror, May 25, 2016. (If that’s not what Thor and Beck intended, it’s certainly being read that way by numerous bloggers.)

Chaser:

On Olbermann’s April 24, 2008, program, guest Howard Fineman was discussing the delegate math with Our Hero, stating, “some adults somewhere in the Democratic party to step in and stop this thing, like a referee in a fight that could go on for thirty rounds. Those are the super, super, super delegates who are going to have to decide this.”

To which Olbermann replied, “Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”

—As quoted at Ed Driscoll.com, May 24th, 2008.

(Classical reference in headline.)