The author quoted newsflo which is a satire website about Ted Cruz’s father.
“While they’re in their Heathen Zones, they’re free to dance naked around the fire, brand the mark of the Devil on their flesh or whatever else they want to do,” he added. “Of course, if they step one foot outside the electrified fence we shoot them between the eyes. Two or three times, just to be sure.”
The above is satire, which salon stated as fact.
No one ever said they (Salon writers) were smart.