Timing is Everything

Bétancourt:

But, while praising President Alvaro Uribe's work towards her release, she said it was time to end "extremist" language towards the Farc.

That 'time' being right after she was freed. Then again, consider the audience.

Ms Betancourt is in Paris, where she flew after her release on Wednesday.

"I think we have reached a point where we must change this radical, extremist vocabulary of hate of very strong words that intimately wound the human being," she told French radio.

The FARC (or their flunkies) not being given to that kind of thing.

Meanwhile, back in the bosom of democracy and reason, the hunt for bigots continues.