The media is all up in arms about Rush Limbaugh's comments a couple days in a row about riots in Denver. He didnt' say he was going to start them, but that he was dreaming of them, as one would say, in other parts of the country, dream of a whie Christmas (we don't do that here, because we always have one).

He explained on-air: "Riots in Denver at the Democrat Convention would see to it we don't elect Democrats," Limbaugh said. "And that's the best damn thing (that) could happen for this country as far as anything I can think."

What's so strange is not that Limbaugh says it'd be humorous to see rioting in Denver, but the fact that people, even groups planning to riot in Denver, are upset about it. As if, by Rush Limbaugh mentioning it, he can will it to happen.

The organizer of a protest group called "Re-create '68" which plans on recreating the 1968 convention in Chicago which saw all kinds of rioting in the streets said:

We don't need another 5,000 illiterate Limbaugh listeners coming to Colorado," he said, mocking a comment this week by State Rep. Douglas Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, calling migrant workers "illiterate peasants" as he debated a bill to accommodate up to 5,000 guest workers in the state.

I think this guy, a local activist and conservative talk show host, John Andrews, has the situation pinned:.

"Look, nobody seriously wants violence and civil disobedience at the Denver convention," he said. "Rush is just saying, 'Make our day'; if, in fact, the Re-create '68 hooligans or the Al Sharpton street toughs or anybody else wants to disrupt the convention, they're going to hurt Democrats' chances in the fall."