The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday examined the lack of civility in America and, somehow, managed to avoid discussing the attempted slaughter of Republican members of Congress by a rage-filled Bernie Sanders supporter. Trying to murder your political opponents would seem to be a rather uncivil action.

Talking to CBS’s polling expert, Anthony Salvanto, co-host Gayle King managed to avoid the most topical issue relating to civility: “Let's talk about civility in American politics.... What did you find there? Because it seems like most people blame the other guy.”

Salvanto explained that “about 20 percent of each party's base that feels the other side is a threat to their way of life.” King complained, “But don't you always hear, 'Civility, 'it's always the worst it's ever been?'”

Again, the tone deafness displayed here is pretty spectacular. Sometimes an unhinged partisan IS a threat to your “way of life.”

Making the obvious point, given last week's events, Salvanto allowed, “Yeah, we do often hear that but that doesn't mean people don't sense a trend line going down.”

Just after the shooting, on June 16, the CBS journalists talked to Elizabeth Warren. King asked if “both sides” were responsible for the angry rhetoric of the attack.

On June 15, This Morning co-host Charlie Rose wondered if it was Donald Trump who needed to learn “civility.”

A transcript is below: