Kansas City Star lifts language from a 1960s playbook

In the August 19 issue of the Kansas City Star columnist Dave Helling took Fox News' Sean Hannity to task on page A4:

A generation ago, that reaction would have been predictable: Conservatives would have backed the police, no questions asked. Indeed, we saw some of that last week, when Fox News host Sean Hannity worried about "outside agitators" in Ferguson and the New Black Panther Party, language clearly lifted from a 1960s playbook.

Apparently, Helling didn't get a chance to read all of the August 19 issue of his newspaper prior to writing his column. If he had, he would have noticed this headline on the front page: "'Outside agitators' stoke residents' ire." "The people causing all the trouble, they aren't from Ferguson," said resident Mike Marion, 26, in the article.

As far as the New Black Panther Party, they have indeed been in Ferguson, and even took over the police chief's press conference.

Helling then went on to suggest that Hannity is a hypocrite because he allegedly took a different position regarding the Clive Bundy case in April than he is regarding the protesters in Ferguson:

In April, when rancher Clive Bundy battled federal officials in Nevada, the pundit said: "I'm just afraid of what this government is capable of doing. ... We saw what happened in Waco." 

As far as I can determine, Hannity has yet to link authorities in Ferguson with those in 1993 in Texas. 

That kind of double-talk [sic] seems more and more like old news.

Of course, it would be difficult to link authorities in Ferguson with those in Waco for one very obvious reason: The authorities in Ferguson are local authorities, while the authorities in Waco and Utah were federal authorities. When Hannity said "this government," he was clearly referring to the federal government.