Is Kimmel's Attitude Helping, or Hurting Our National Dialog?

It seems it is now fashionable, if not "heroic" for comedians and television celebrities to take a political position on today's issues rather than do their job of attracting as many viewers as possible with neutral comedy and entertainment; like they used to do on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or Johnny Carson.

Jimmy Kimmel's most recent interview reveals this to apparently be the case in the wake of a few other earlier comedians holding up the severed head of the President, spouting off a diatribe of disparaging remarks about the President laced with expletives, or an ESPN sportscaster making uncalled for remarks about him. Is this helping the nation's dialog about our differences? Is it being civil and decent about keeping a dialog open in order to understand one another's different views and agreeing to disagree like adults?

Today, Glenn Beck made some very valid points about this issue here. I urge you to watch it and determine for yourself whether this is healthy for our nation.

It's clear to me that today's mass communication capabilities has fueled divisiveness and a less civilized dialogue between differing factions, but it's also the reality that because the left, the media, and the angst generated by the previous administration has created such an intense animosity towards those who have differing viewpoints, our nation is rapidly becoming "unhinged" by the onslaught of absurd and ridiculous claims by both sides about anything. I believe it's safe to say that the past administration weaponized politics by acting unconstitutionally in several instances, and this is the seething underbelly of our current extremely societal tension we're now experiencing.

Are we going to dive headlong into a civil war between these factions, or are we going to come to our senses about where we're head with all of this and stop, recognize what's going on, and realize we have to act like mature, civil humans who have more in common - liberties, freedoms, and opportunities - than we have in differing views about why things are happening as they are today? I pray it's the latter!