Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the NAACP are no longer bestest buddies, if they ever were.

When LePage declined to participate in Martin Luther King Day events, the NAACP strongly criticized them. He responded by saying NAACP is "a special interest. End of story. And I'm not going to be held hostage by any special interests.

Now that the horror of the assination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (and the murder of six others) in Tucson has marinated for a few days, the heat is being turned up on those who have used "gun rhetoric" to murder (or rather, vote out of office) liberal politicians.

On "Fresh Air" yesterday, Terry Gross interviewed Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson about his new book on the increasing disconnect between America's African-American communities., "Disintigration: The Splintering of Black America."