"Progressive Hunter"

[Sandy Eggo]

Still think Fox news is harmless?

Jailhouse Confession: How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination
by John Hamilton


"I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there. And it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind." - Byron Williams

http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110002

[me]

Uh, he told the truth about them is all.  Quit blaming people's idiocy on everyone but them.  You can't hide the truth just because it might upset someone.  This right wing attack on people is really getting beyond the pale.

Still think Fox news is harmless?

http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110002

[LOsborne]

When someone's tin-foil hat fails, and he goes murderous without any obvious explanation, it's natural for us to seek a reason -- and someone to blame.

Regarding the VA Tech killings, A.O. Scott wrote this in the NY Times:

The crime was so horrifically irrational that the machinery of interpretation went into overdrive, as though the effects of the violence could be healed if the violence itself could somehow be given meaning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/movies/23movi.html

He reminds us that John Hinckley was devoted to Jodie Foster, leading some to question the influence of Taxi Driver on his attempt to kill President Reagan. John Mark Chapman carried around a copy of "Catcher in the Rye." Leopold and Loeb referred to Doestevsky's "Crime and Punishment" as their model. Charles Manson was obsessed with the Beatles.

A decade or so ago Tipper Gore et al were convinced violent lyrics on the radio would lead to people being murdered.

Ultimately, we must admit the fault for horrific acts lies with the perpetrators.

[Sandy Eggo]

I think blaming him may be a little much, but for some weak-minded individuals that may be all it takes. Obviously we can't fault Beck that they're weak-minded, but I do fault him and others like him for lacking integrity.

Me, he doesn't tell the naked truth, ever. Even his program w/the blackboard etc., intended to give the impression that he's an educator is a lie.

[The Troll]

I think blaming him may be a little much, but for some weak-minded individuals that may be all it takes. Obviously we can't fault Beck that they're weak-minded, but I do fault him and others like him for lacking integrity.

Me, he doesn't tell the naked truth, ever. Even his program w/the blackboard etc., intended to give the impression that he's an educator is a lie.

  Not only is Beck an idiot, he draws idiots to him, just like a burning candle draws moths to it.  He feeds their craziness.  Only a fool can give him any creditability.

[me]

It gets his point across better than if he just talked and showed nothing.  That happens to be his form of illustrating.  For most it will stay in the mind better and prompt them, as he always tells them, to do their own research. 

I think blaming him may be a little much, but for some weak-minded individuals that may be all it takes. Obviously we can't fault Beck that they're weak-minded, but I do fault him and others like him for lacking integrity.

Me, he doesn't tell the naked truth, ever. Even his program w/the blackboard etc., intended to give the impression that he's an educator is a lie.

[Palehorse]

It gets his point across better than if he just talked and showed nothing.  That happens to be his form of illustrating.  For most it will stay in the mind better and prompt them, as he always tells them, to do their own research.

First and foremost, all these types of shows are one thing and one thing only; "entertainment". They exist to amuse the easily amused, and surreptitiously lead the easily lead. . .

Secondly, most who watch such programming will not do any research what so ever. They are lazy, otherwise they'd already realize guys like these are nothing more than corporate whores. . .

[me]

Beck say's many times through out his show, "don't believe me or just take my word for things or anyone else's, do your own research".   

First and foremost, all these types of shows are one thing and one thing only; "entertainment". They exist to amuse the easily amused, and surreptitiously lead the easily lead. . .

Secondly, most who watch such programming will not do any research what so ever. They are lazy, otherwise they'd already realize guys like these are nothing more than corporate whores. . .

[Palehorse]

Beck say's many times through out his show, "don't believe me or just take my word for things or anyone else's, do your own research".

. . .
Secondly, most who watch such programming will not do any research what so ever. They are lazy, otherwise they'd already realize guys like these are nothing more than corporate whores. . .

[The Troll]

Beck say's many times through out his show, "don't believe me or just take my word for things or anyone else's, do your own research".

  Everytime I think think your deceant person.  You're a good cook, and good mother you show me how screwed  up you really are.

  Listening to Beck like you do, is being brain dead.  Is stupid and makes you, out of  your mind.

[me]

But Beck can point out the bad things about Bush and/or the Republicans without name calling and put downs.  He uses facts and shows them to you.  Same with the Dems and everyone else.  He pulls no punches with any of the politicians, even the libertarians.  It is up to the individual to decide. 

  Everytime I think think your deceant person.  You're a good cook, and good mother you show me how screwed  up you really are.

  Listening to Beck like you do, is being brain dead.  Is stupid and makes you, out of  your mind.

[Palehorse]

But Beck can point out the bad things about Bush and/or the Republicans without name calling and put downs.  He uses facts and shows them to you.  Same with the Dems and everyone else.  He pulls no punches with any of the politicians, even the libertarians.  It is up to the individual to decide.

"Violence is coming": Glenn Beck's long history of violent rhetoric
October 11, 2010 7:14 am ET
As John Hamilton reported, alleged California highway shooter Byron Williams described Beck as "a schoolteacher" and said that "it was the things [Beck] exposed that blew my mind." Though he urges his audience to "reject violence," Beck regularly spews violent rhetoric -- often warning of impending violence from "the left."

Glenn Beck frequently spews violent rhetoric on Fox News

A review of Glenn Beck's Fox News program from its start to Williams' arrest on July 18, 2010, shows that Beck frequently used violent rhetoric.

Beck pours gasoline on "average American," asks, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?" On his television show, Beck claimed to be imitating Obama while pouring liquid from a gasoline can -- which he later stated was water -- on an actor portraying the "average American." Beck said during his demonstration: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the republic." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 4/9/09]

Quoting Jefferson, Beck warns about "rivers of blood." On his Fox News show, Beck quoted a letter by Thomas Jefferson warning that " 'if they lose freedom' -- he's speaking of us, future generations -- 'if they lose freedom, there will be rivers of blood.' " Beck continued in his own words, "Boy, I hope that's not true, but I can tell you there will be rivers of blood if we don't have values and principles." [Glenn Beck, 5/14/10]

Ranting that gov't under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now," Beck suggests Obama admin might kill "10 percent" of population. On his June 10 show, Beck warned that "anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists" have to "eliminate 10 percent of the U.S. population" in order to "gain control." They couldn't achieve such a goal when Richard Nixon was president, Beck stated, because "the family was together" and the government under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now." Beck added: "Now they can. Now they can."

Beck later played a clip of an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground and warned about extremists who want to kill people. Beck responded to the clip by stating: "These are the same people that are everywhere in our government and our education system. Please, please. Learn from history. Please."

Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires, suggests "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." On his March 30, 2009, Fox News show, Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama and Democrats as vampires and said: "The government is full of vampires, and they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." Beck returned to that imagery on his January 19 radio show, warning listeners that progressives are "vampires" who now have a "taste of blood" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent."

Beck talks about "put[ting] poison" in Pelosi's wine. In 2009, Beck's Fox News show featured a segment in which Beck said the following to a woman wearing a mask of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

BECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to -- you gonna drink your wine? Are you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you -- I want you to drink it now. Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.

I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a longtime friend of yours, which I'm not.

By the way, I put poison in your -- no, I -- I look forward to all the policy discussions that we're supposed to have -- you know, on health care, energy reform, and the economy. [Glenn Beck, 8/6/09]
Beck: "Grab a torch." Asserting that politicians are addicted to spending, Beck stated: "When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and literally stealing our children's future out of town? Grab a torch." [Glenn Beck, 1/6/10]

Beck suggests that progressives support "armed insurrection." After President Obama signed health care reform legislation into law, Beck suggested that progressives support "armed insurrection" and asked, "Why would the president take up immigration right away, after he's just punched you in the face with health care?" [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]

Beck suggests Pelosi and Obama support "pick[ing] up a gun" to advance "revolution." During the same edition of his Fox News show, Beck said that "violence is the wrong way to go," but asked his viewers: "You'd pick up a gun? Have you ever thought of that?" He then pointed to several pictures, including images of Obama and Pelosi, and stated: "These people have. Because possibly, maybe the question should be asked, maybe they're tired of evolution, and maybe they are waiting for revolution." Beck also said: "Haven't we just been spanked? Hasn't most of the country -- doesn't most of the country feel like they've been spanked over health care? You bet. I do, you do. A lot of people do." [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]

Beck suggests Obama administration may kill him. Also on that same edition of his Fox News program, Beck said: "For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill." [Glenn Beck, 3/23/10]

Beck: "The revolution of 1776 was a picnic compared to what the revolutionaries of today would like to do. ... Usually, millions of people die." On June 9, while discussing "radicals" in the country, Beck told his audience: "Here's what you'll learn. The revolution of 1776 was a picnic compared to what the revolutionaries of today would like to do. It's not a lot of fun. Usually, millions of people die."

After Williams' arrest, Beck has continued to frequently use violent rhetoric on Fox News

Beck suggests progressive coalition will become violent and riot "a year from now." On his Fox News program, while discussing how progressives are supposedly trying to "nudge" the United States towards "global governance," Beck said that "violence is a part of the overall strategy." While discussing a coalition of unions and progressive groups that are planning a march in Washington, D.C., Beck said that he believes the march will be "peaceful," but suggested that "a year from now" there may be violence and riots "when the cuts take place." Beck also proclaimed that the Democrats have been "infected with the tree of revolution" and "radicals" who are a "danger to our republic." [Glenn Beck, 9/14/10]

Beck connects U.S. progressives to the Holocaust, says they "have not changed their viewpoint." Beck announced that "if you don't know your history, you are doomed to repeat it." During the segment, Beck linked several U.S. progressives to eugenics and the Holocaust and proceeded to say that progressives "have not changed their viewpoint; they've only changed their language." [Glenn Beck, 8/3/10]

Beck: After election, "our streets will not be peaceful" due to progressives "agitating." Discussing the upcoming elections, Beck told his viewers "activists" "are about to go back to agitating, because once they lose control of the House, they have to." After encouraging people to vote, Beck said that after the election, "our streets will not be peaceful. They will start protesting and agitating again." [Glenn Beck, 9/30/10]

"Violence will come": Beck also uses his radio program and other outlets to engage in violent fearmongering

Though Williams indicated he did not listen to Beck's radio program, Beck frequently employs violent rhetoric during his radio program, often warning of eventual violence from "the left."

Beck: "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter." Telling his listeners that they "are going to learn so much on Friday," Beck compared himself to "Israeli Nazi hunters" and commented: "I'm telling you, I'm going to find these big progressives and, to the day I die, I'm going to be a progressive hunter." He added:

BECK: I'm going to find these people that have done this to our -- you know, to our country, and expose them. I don't care where -- I don't care if they're in nursing homes. I'm going to expose what they have done and make sure that the people understand, because our Constitution, our republic -- if it survives -- it will only survive because the people are waking up and through the grace of God, because we are that close to losing our republic. [The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/10]
Beck warns that "in the end, in revolutions, real dangerous killers show up when things start to fall apart." Discussing how the government is "growing out of control," Beck attacked former White House green jobs adviser Van Jones and "the government" for using "fear tactics." Beck told listeners that he "told you this would happen" and added that "I told you just last week that I believe these are the most dangerous two years of our republic. Because in the end, in revolutions, the real dangerous killers show up when things start to fall apart. When the nudge moves to shove, and the shove doesn't work, the killers show up. It happens every time. That's why we must be united for peace, we must be united with love, we must be united with God." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/27/10]

Beck: "Violence will come. And violence will come from the left. Violence is part of the plan." Beck warned listeners that "if you don't think violence is coming, I'm going to share some audio of Frances Fox Piven that will boggle your mind." Beck said that "they don't mind violence. Violence will come. And violence will come from the left. Violence is part of the plan. Not mine, not yours." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/13/10]

Beck on progressives: When the "soft revolution" fails, they "just start shooting people." Beck claimed that progressives are engaging in a "soft revolution" designed to silence voices like his. He added: "If somebody starts to turn on them, or they can't get everyone to silence, that's when the arrests come, or that's when they start a hard revolution. That's when they start just shooting people. I hope we don't get to that point. I pray that we don't get to that point, but I never thought this country would get to the point where we are today." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/27/10]

Beck warns of violence: "Trouble" by the "most violent" progressives "is coming." Beck suggested that Obama would respond to potential GOP victories in November elections by "going right directly" to the "most progressive, most violent, the worst of the worst on the left and stir 'em up. 'Get out into the streets. Cause trouble.' It's what's coming. It's what's coming." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/24/10]

Beck: "Violence is coming" and "the left will blame me." Beck said that people need to "wake up" and see "what is coming," which Beck described as "violence." He added that "the left will blame me." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/2/10]

Beck: "God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have to." Referencing Lincoln's second inaugural address, Beck said that "God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have to." Beck added that "we are passing all of the exits. Gang, there is one exit left. There is one exit left, and it is God. Everything that is coming our way is too big to handle on our own. If we do not put God at the center of our own personal lives and the center of our country, we will not survive. The country will be washed with blood and then someone will have to start over, and God only knows how long that takes." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/25/10]

Beck warns of "revolutionaries" who will "set our streets on fire." Urging people to vote in the November elections, Beck said that "in the short term" this election is "going to make things worse" because "revolutionaries" are going to "rise up" and "set our streets on fire." He added that "our future is at stake right now." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/16/10]

Beck: "The army ... of the extreme left is gathering" and they are saying "cops are bad, kill the cops." On his radio show, Beck discussed riots in Oakland, stating: "The army, if you will, of the extreme left is gathering, and they are coming to the conclusion of cops are bad, kill the cops, they're the oppressors. It's all the 1960s, you know, pig stuff. It's the same stuff." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/12/10]

Beck: "This game is for keeps"; "[Y]ou can shoot me in the head ... but there will be 10 others that line up." Asking his audience to "pray for protection," Beck claimed that "the most powerful people on the planet on the left" were "not going to go away easy" because "[t]his game is for keeps. This is who controls the United States of America and its destiny." He asked his listeners to "please keep me in your prayers, keep my staff in your prayers, for safety, for wisdom," adding, "Just pray for protection, please." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/09]

Later in the same program, Beck said:

BECK: You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never -- you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards. [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/8/09]
Beck speaks for one-third of the nation: "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent." Beck has warned "ACORN, GE, Obama, SEIU" that "you are awakening a sleeping giant, and I have nothing to do with it," and that "America is waking up. You know the American Revolution took place with 12 percent of the population? Twelve. Are you telling me there is not 30 percent of this population that you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I let somebody into my house to tell me how to raise my children; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be silent." Beck further stated:

BECK: They cannot move on these things, because they are building a machine that will crush the entrepreneurial sprit and the freedom that our Founding Fathers designed. This machine, whatever it is they are building, will crush it. Do not let them build another piece.

So while I turn away, I want to make sure that I have at least 10 million eyes watching -- watching every single move they are making.

[...]

We know why they're doing what they're doing. You need to do what you need to do, and as long as that is peaceful, we will save our country. [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/30/09]
Beck suggests Obama is "trying to destroy the country" and is pushing America toward civil war. While discussing the ongoing controversy over Arizona's immigration law, Beck told his listeners that "we are being pushed" toward civil war and that Obama is "trying to destroy the country." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/19/10]

Beck: "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America." Beck has claimed that "there is a revolution, and they think they can get away with it quietly," adding: "At this point, gang, I'm not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know what they're dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the -- the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time." He also said, "And they're gonna say, 'we did it democratically,' and they are going to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/31/09]

Beck: "[T]hat's not begging for World War III; that's called giving you the facts." Referencing a speech he had given the previous weekend in Alaska, Beck discussed how he told the audience that "you are Fort Knox." He explained that if the economy collapses, Alaskans must "grab your guns" because "the Russians, the Chinese -- everyone is coming to Alaska, because that's where the money is. Now, that's not begging for World War III; that's called giving you the facts. But see, there are those people that really want this to collapse, and they are planning on violence. They're planning on it -- we've already shown you. We've already seen it with SEIU. We've shown it to you over in Europe." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/13/10]

Beck says his audience contains "the leaders of tomorrow" who will save you from "camps, maybe literally." Referencing an event he appeared at the previous weekend with Sarah Palin, Beck said that they have "30 million people in our footprint." Beck explained that "this 10 percent is going to be the shelter for the other 90 percent." He added: "This is the group, this 10 percent will be the ones that when all hell goes to handbasket, and everybody on the left and the right are yelling and arguing and trying to pull you into camps, maybe literally, pull you into camps. You're gonna say 'Don't go, don't go, everything's fine. Don't worry, we can take care of each other. We've got each other, we're Americans, we're better than this.' " [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/13/10]

Beck: "They're trying to beat it out of you slowly. Boil you, basically, like a frog." After agreeing with a caller who suggested we should "collapse the Federal Reserve" and "build it back up," Beck said that the government already "started planning for the next phase, and the next phase is a global governance sort of situation." Discussing how people should prepare for a global collapse, Beck added that "people are not going to go peacefully into the night if it is a quick collapse." Beck said that "the fear here is that they already have the structure to box you in. They don't come with the jackbooted thugs on the first day. They come and take away your sugary sweets. They come and take away your right to go to the beach and dig in the sand. They come and they watch your credit cards. ... They're trying to beat it out of you slowly. Boil you, basically, like a frog. I think we win. I think we win if things remain stable, but a power grab is a possibility in this crazy upside-down America that we live in." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/21/10]

Beck: "I don't know how much time each of us has. I don't know how much time the country has." Beck "beg[ged]" his listeners to "please give me the benefit of the doubt," and said: "I'm begging you to get back down on your knees. I'm begging you to be the person that you were and you promised yourself you would be on September 11th and 12th. I'm begging you to get down on your knees. What is coming is not good. I don't know how things end. I should rephrase that. I do know how things end. But I know how things end after a long struggle. I don't know how that struggle is gonna work out. I don't know how much time each of us has. I don't know how much time the country has." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/25/10]

Beck: Obama administration is "poking" at "people who have a record of violence" and "stirring up trouble." Discussing how Obama had criticized people on the left on the same day that cuts were announced to food stamp programs, Beck speculated that the administration was "poking" the left the same way that he "poked" the tea parties. He added that this "makes Barack Obama look like he's more centrist. But also, you're poking people who have a record of violence and taking to the streets and stirring up trouble. Hmm. I wonder if there's anything there." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/11/10]

Beck invokes Holocaust while discussing soda machines: "First they came for the sugary beverages, and I said nothing." Beck linked a report about city officials in Boston limiting the sale of sodas in city buildings to the Holocaust, saying "First they came for the sugary beverages, and I said nothing." [The Glenn Beck Program, 9/21/10]

Beck's advice to Liberty grads: "Shoot to kill." During his May 15 commencement speech at Liberty University, Beck told graduates that they "have a responsibility" to speak out, or "blood ... will be on our hands." His advice for graduates (as well as his daughter) included "shoot to kill."

Beck: "I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on." During an interview with Newsmax.com in which he discussed opposition to Obama's Federal Communications Commission policies, Beck said: "I fear an event. I fear a Reichstag moment, a -- God forbid -- another 9-11, something that will turn this machine on, and power will be seized and voices will be silenced. God help us all.'' [Newsmax.com, 10/7/09]

Mixed message: Beck implores his audience to "reject violence"

Though Beck frequently employs overtly violent rhetoric, he regularly urges his audience to "reject violence." As reported by John Hamilton, Williams said that "Beck would never say anything about a conspiracy, would never advocate violence. ... But he'll give you every ounce of evidence that you could possibly need.'

Beck warns his audience not to "pick up a gun" or "cause any violence." Beck addressed his audience on his Fox News show, saying: "Let me tell you something right now. Let me make this very clear for anybody on the left, the right or the middle: If you pick up a gun, if you cause any violence, if you are engaged in a riot, let me promise you now, the republic will be over. Over. Because they need you to do that." [Glenn Beck, 7/26/10]

Beck: "Reject violence every step of the way." On his radio program, Beck told his listeners that they were "winning" against "a well-coordinated attack" and that their opponents "need you to become violent." He continued:

BECK: The minute you become violent, which you're not going to do -- hear me clearly, for the record. Violence will destroy the republic. The person that picks up a gun, a bomb, anything, a knife, a rope, they will destroy the republic. Reject violence every step of the way. You make the first call to the police if you see anyone who you think is plotting, planning, thinking crazy thoughts. You turn them in to police immediately. You will destroy the republic if you do not. Now, could I be any clearer than that? Write it down in your diary because it will be erased in history. [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/26/10]
Beck: "We need to really view ourselves as non-armed, non-violent cells." On the same broadcast of his radio show, Beck stated: "If they take me down, you have to be standing. And if they take you down, somebody else has to be standing. So we need to really view ourselves as non-armed, non-violent cells." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/26/10]

Beck: "The only weapon in our arsenal that we need is God." Beck has suggested that the government is "poking and prodding" the "crazy teabaggers" in order to incite them to violence. "They need you to be violent," he said. "They are begging for it. You are being set up. Do not give them what they want." Then, referring to a report that some congressmen had received death threats after voting in favor of health care reform, Beck implored his viewers, "Do not become them. ... It's exactly what they want." He concluded by saying that "the only weapon in our arsenal that we need is God." [Glenn Beck, 3/24/10]

Beck: "You must always be a people of peace." The same day on the radio, Beck cautioned his listeners: "Let me warn you now, in no uncertain terms. You must always be a people of peace. Always. Unless your life is being threatened. In no uncertain terms, you must always be a people of peace." [The Glenn Beck Program, 3/24/10]

Beck: "How many times do I have to say 'peaceful'?" In the middle of comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr., Beck said to his radio listeners: "These are the times when you stand up -- when you can stand up peacefully, because if you don't stand up as you are losing those rights, as the government is growing in power, then, unfortunately, it becomes too late to stand up peacefully. How many times do I have to say 'peaceful'?" [The Glenn Beck Program, 11/25/09]

Beck: Go to town hall meetings armed with something -- "not with guns but with facts." While suggesting that the Obama administration is trying to destroy him, Beck told his listeners that "there is evil at play" and warned that "unless you come to these town hall meetings armed with something, you're too easily dismissed." He later clarified: "By arming you every day, by arming you not with guns but with facts, and you walking into these places armed with facts, the biggest stick you can carry." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/24/09]

Beck: "It is not time to pick up guns" or "blow anything up." Beck warned his radio audience that "the American way of life is being systematically dismantled and destroyed," "the republic is in danger," and "we are entering the most dangerous time in American history." He then said, "My fellow American, it is not time to pick up guns. It is not time. It is not time to blow anything up." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/5/09]

Beck: "If anyone thinks that it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again." Beck issued a "warning" to his television audience: "If anyone thinks that it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again. It would destroy the republic." He stated that "just one lunatic, like Timothy McVeigh, could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for" and instructed his audience that it was their "patriotic duty" to stop anyone they heard thinking about becoming violent. [Glenn Beck, 8/3/09]


http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110015

[Palehorse]

Conservative media figures have history of violent rhetoric
October 11, 2010 9:08 am ET
In recent years, conservative media figures on Fox News and elsewhere have frequently used violent rhetoric in criticizing progressives.

Fox News figures frequently use violent rhetoric

Beck talks about "put[ting] poison" in Pelosi's wine. Glenn Beck stated:

BECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to -- you gonna drink your wine? Are you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you -- I want you to drink it now. Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.

I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a longtime friend of yours, which I'm not.

By the way, I put poison in your -- no, I -- I look forward to all the policy discussions that we're supposed to have -- you know, on health care, energy reform, and the economy. [Glenn Beck 8/6/09]
Morris: "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." During a long conspiracy theory about a "super-national authority" that will oversee U.S. financial institutions, Fox News contributor Dick Morris asserted that President Obama's policies are "internationalist" and that "[t]hose crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." [Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, 3/31/09]

Trotta suggests "knock[ing] off" "both" Osama and Obama. During a May 25, 2008, segment on Fox News' America's Election HQ, while discussing the media coverage of Hillary Clinton's remark on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta said:

TROTTA: The vast right-wing conspiracy blame has been undermined by her [Clinton's] evasions, by her outright lies, if I may say, by her pandering, by her race-baiting, and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama - Obama - well, both if we could.

ERIC SHAWN (host): Well - talk about how you really feel.


Trotta later "apologize[d] to anybody I have offended" for her "lame attempt at humor."

Palin: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Fox News contributor Sarah Palin posted a list of House Democrats who voted for health care reform with crosshairs aimed at their locations. In a March 23 tweet about her map, Palin wrote: " 'Don't Retreat, Instead -- RELOAD!' " Palin's list was criticized by conservative Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who introduced and endorsed Palin during the 2008 campaign, as helping foster a climate of violent rhetoric. Hasselbeck added that the list is "purely despicable" and "insane."

Huckabee: Members of Congress "should be tarred and feathered as the original tea partiers would have done." As RightWingWatch.org noted, Fox News host Mike Huckabee said of members of Congress in January:

HUCKABEE: Every member of Congress knows in his gut what's in the people's interest and what's in K Street's interest. If you think your real boss is some smug guy in a corner office with his Gucci loafers up on a mahogany deck and not the folks back home, those folks who voted for you, who gave you 25 or 50 hard-earned bucks, who put up yard signs and made calls for you, you deserve to lose. Shame on you, you shouldn't just be fired, you should be tarred and feathered as the original tea partiers would have done. That's my view and I welcome yours.
Stossel said he has "Barney Frank in effigy" hanging above his sofa. In a February 3 interview with New York magazine, when Fox Business host John Stossel was asked, "What's hanging above your sofa?" he responded: "Barney Frank in effigy." [New York, 2/3/10]

Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires, suggests "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama and Democrats as vampires and said, "The government is full of vampires, and they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." [Glenn Beck, 3/30/09]

Beck: "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter." Telling his listeners that they "are going to learn so much on Friday," Beck compared himself to "Israeli Nazi hunters" and commented, "I'm going to find these big progressives and, to the day I die, I'm going to be a progressive hunter." He added: 

BECK: I'm going to find these people that have done this to our -- you know, to our country, and expose them. I don't care where -- I don't care if they're in nursing homes. I'm going to expose what they have done and make sure that the people understand, because our Constitution, our republic -- if it survives -- it will only survive because the people are waking up and through the grace of God, because we are that close to losing our republic. [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/10] 
Beck: "Grab a torch." Asserting that politicians are addicted to spending, Beck stated: "When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and literally stealing our children's future out of town? Grab a torch." [Glenn Beck, 1/6/10]

Beck speaks for one-third of the nation: "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent." During the July 30, 2009, edition of his radio show, Beck warned "ACORN, GE, Obama, SEIU" that "you are awakening a sleeping giant, and I have nothing to do with it" and that "America is waking up. You know the American Revolution took place with 12 percent of the population? Twelve. Are you telling me there is not 30 percent of this population that you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I let somebody into my house to tell me how to raise my children; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be silent."

Beck: "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America." On his radio show, Beck stated that "there is a revolution, and they think they can get away with it quietly." Beck further claimed: "At this point, gang, I'm not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know what they're dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the -- the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time." He also said, "And they're gonna say, 'we did it democratically,' and they are going to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/31/09]

Beck pours gasoline on "average American," asks, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?" On his Fox News program, Beck claimed to be imitating Obama while pouring liquid from a gasoline can -- which he later stated was water -- on an "average American." Beck said during his demonstration: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the republic." [Glenn Beck, 4/9/09]

Quoting Jefferson, Beck warns about "rivers of blood." On his Fox News show, Beck quoted a letter by Thomas Jefferson warning that " 'if they lose freedom' -- he's speaking of us, future generations -- 'if they lose freedom, there will be rivers of blood.' " Beck continued in his own words, "Boy, I hope that's not true, but I can tell you there will be rivers of blood if we don't have values and principles." [Glenn Beck, 5/14/10]

Ranting that gov't under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now," Beck suggests Obama admin might kill "10 percent" of population. Beck warned that "anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists" have to "eliminate 10 percent of the U.S. population" in order to "gain control." They couldn't achieve such a goal when Richard Nixon was president, Beck stated, because "the family was together" and the government under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now." Beck added: "Now they can. Now they can." Beck later played a clip of an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground and warned about extremists who want to kill people. Beck responded to the clip by stating: "These are the same people that are everywhere in our government and our education system. Please, please. Learn from history. Please." [Glenn Beck, 6/10/10]

Beck on progressives: When the "soft revolution" fails, they "just start shooting people." Beck claimed that progressives are engaging in a "soft revolution" designed to silence voices like his. He added: "If somebody starts to turn on them, or they can't get everyone to silence, that's when the arrests come, or that's when they start a hard revolution. That's when they start just shooting people. I hope we don't get to that point. I pray that we don't get to that point, but I never thought this country would get to the point where we are today." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/27/10]

Beck: "God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have to." Referencing Lincoln's second inaugural address, Beck said that "God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have to." Beck added that "we are passing all of the exits. Gang, there is one exit left. There is one exit left, and it is God. Everything that is coming our way is too big to handle on our own. If we do not put God at the center of our own personal lives and the center of our country, we will not survive. The country will be washed with blood and then someone will have to start over, and God only knows how long that takes." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/25/10]

Beck: "The army ... of the extreme left is gathering" and they are saying "cops are bad, kill the cops." On his radio show, Beck discussed riots in Oakland, stating: "The army, if you will, of the extreme left is gathering, and they are coming to the conclusion of cops are bad, kill the cops, they're the oppressors. It's all the 1960s, you know, pig stuff. It's the same stuff." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/12/10]

Beck's advice to Liberty grads: "Shoot to kill." During his May 15 commencement speech at Liberty University, Beck told graduates that they "have a responsibility" to speak out, or "blood ... will be on our hands." His advice for graduates (as well as his daughter) included "shoot to kill."

O'Reilly: "f I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech." On the November 6, 2006, broadcast of his radio show, Bill O'Reilly said of the late Dr. George Tiller: "f I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech." [Westwood One's The Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 11/6/06]

Peters stated that if a Taliban-held soldier is a deserter, "the Taliban can save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills." Ralph Peters asserted of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in June 2009 and appeared in two Taliban propaganda videos: "[W]e know this private is a liar; we're not sure if he's a deserter." Peters added that if he is a deserter, "the Taliban can save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills." NBC's Jim Miklaszewski subsequently reported that the Pentagon said Peters' comments "could endanger" the captured soldier. [Fox News' America's News HQ, 7/19/09]

Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to "detonate a major weapon" in U.S. Michael Scheuer, who has frequently appeared on Fox News as a terrorism expert, said during an appearance on Glenn Beck, "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." [Glenn Beck, 6/30/09]

Other conservative media figures have used violent rhetoric

Erickson: "At what point do the people ... march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp?" In a March 31, 2009, post on RedState.com discussing a Washington county's ban on certain kinds of dishwasher detergent, Erick Erickson wrote: "At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?" Later in the post, Erickson added: "Were I in Washington State, I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation."

Erickson: I'll "[p]ull out my wife's shotgun" if they try to arrest me for not filling out the American Community Survey. On the April 1 edition of WMAC's In the Morning with Erick Erickson, Erickson said of the American Community Survey: "This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I'm not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying."

Right-wing blogger: People should "have a swing at" lawmakers "if you're willing to do the time." In a March 24 post on his blog, Confederate Yankee, Bob Owens - who also currently contributes to the Washington Examiner - wrote:

No matter what you think of Obamacare and the craven ideologues that passed it, is totally unacceptable to threaten their relatives or friends and put them in danger.

Go to your Congressman's office and scream at him in the most colorful language possible. Hang him in effigy at protests. If you're willing to do the time for the crime, have a swing at him.

Better yet, throw a shoe... after all, the left values such behavior as a form of "vigorous dissent," and will no doubt ask for any charges against you to be dropped.

Perhaps one day stronger action will be required if Progressives continue to trample on our liberties in their blind quest for power. But that time is not now.

At this time, I suspect Shikha Dalmia's call for massive civil disobedience is the correct path. Show your anger. Make sure those who have trampled your liberties are stuck down by ballots. With your help, the Democratic Party's assault on the Republic can be undone.

The right way.
Owens: "Jackasses" who call health care a right "deserve to be drawn and quartered." From Owens' Twitter account:



Savage: "We're going to have a revolution in this country"; "These people are pushing the wrong people around." Michael Savage discussed multiculturalism and predicted: "This is not going to go on in this country much longer. We're going to have a revolution in this country if this keeps up. These people are pushing the wrong people around." Savage further said that "the rage has reached a boil. If they keep pushing us around, and if we keep having these schmucks running for office catering to the multicultural people who are destroying the culture of this country ... guaranteed the people -- the white male in particular." [Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, 8/21/09]

Newsmax columnist Perry asserts Obama "is inviting" a "[m]ilitary intervention." John Perry wrote: "There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the 'Obama problem.' Don't dismiss it as unrealistic." He added:

Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible. [Newsmax.com, 9/29/09]
Quinn calls for "riots": "Our country was built on revolution, and it's about time we took it back." Discussing health care reform, Jim Quinn stated, "You have got to say no to this, and if they push this through, you need to riot in the streets. You need to riot in the streets." He further said, "Our country was built on revolution and it's about time we took it back. These people are dangerous," and, "It's about time to put an end to this leftist control of this country, and if a revolution is what it takes, damn it, then that's what it's going to take, because liberty will not be denied." [The War Room with Quinn and Rose, 9/10/09]

Chuck Norris: "[W]ill history need to record a second American Revolution?" In his March 9, 2009, column for WorldNetDaily, actor and political activist Chuck Norris wrote: "How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution? We the people have the authority according to America's Declaration of Independence." Norris also wrote, "On Glenn Beck's radio show last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, 'I may run for president of Texas.' That need may be a reality sooner than we think."

Geller: Obama "is itching for a civil war. And at the rate he is going, he is going to get one." In a June 23 post about immigration reform titled, "Forecast: Blood on the Streets," conservative blogger Pam Geller wrote: "If the king decrees that all illegals will be granted amnesty, I can assure you that America will not go quietly." She added: "It is increasingly clear that the most divisive President in history is itching for a civil war. And at the rate he is going, he is going to get one."

Savage: "I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guantanamo." While discussing the case of two University of South Florida students on trial for charges that they provided material aid to terrorists, Savage told a caller, "If I ran this country, I'd hang the lawyer. I would try her for aiding and abetting terrorism -- I'd hang her and I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guantánamo to defend those murderers." Earlier in the same program, Savage said of the defendants and their attorney, whom he called "a shyster lawyer, a girl lawyer": "I would execute them and I'd execute the lawyer. How's that? I'd execute any lawyer who would do this to this country in a time like this -- I'd hang her. I'd hang her. I'd hang her for aiding and abetting terrorism. Don't tell me they're entitled to a rational defense, I'm so sick of this -- I could rip my desk and it's made of iron. I feel like Superman right now, I could take my hands and break my desk, that's how enraged I am today, I'm choked up with anger." [The Savage Nation, 6/18/08]

Limbaugh: "Secession" is "not the rantings of extreme kookism anymore," "some might say the civil war is already on." A caller to Limbaugh's radio show expressed concern that the "elections even gonna solve the problems in this country" because we are "too far gone." She said that states need to look at "secession" or "maybe another civil war. And, to tell you the truth, I'm ready for it because I'm so hopping mad. I'm mad every day." Limbaugh responded by calling her a "reasonable woman" and saying "she's not alone, folks." He added, "ecession" is "not the rantings of extreme kookism anymore." He later said: "ome might say the civil war is already on -- a nonviolent one." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/5/10]

Conservative radio host Rosen: Build Islamic community center in NY then "blow it to smithereens." During an October 6 debate with progressive radio host David Sirota, conservative radio host and Denver Post columnist Mike Rosen said the following about the proposed Islamic community center in Manhattan: "I think they should be allowed to build it followed by the hijacking of an Iranian plane right into that building and blow it to smithereens."

Right-wing radio host Berry on Islamic community center: "I hope somebody blows it up." In May, right-wing radio host Michael Berry responded to a caller who supported building a proposed Islamic community center in Manhattan by saying: "And I'll tell you this: If you do build a mosque, I hope somebody blows it up. ... I hope the mosque isn't built, and if it is, I hope it's blown up. And I mean that."


http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110021

[LOsborne]

Beck later played a clip of an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground and warned about extremists who want to kill people. Beck responded to the clip by stating: "These are the same people that are everywhere in our government and our education system. Please, please. Learn from history. Please."

Hey, y'all, this is a real concern. For example, a few years ago, the FBI had infiltrated a group of vegans who were involved in a commune out of the Merton Center in Bloomington.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-20-2006-91543.asp

Sen. Lugar (bless him) threw a fit. The only explanation I can think of is the Feebies saw "vegans" and decided the pacifists were ELFs!

[Palehorse]

Sean Hannity reportedly joins Glenn Beck as a self-proclaimed vessel for God
October 13, 2010 7:01 pm ET by Ben Dimiero

Apparently Glenn Beck isn't the only Fox News figure that thinks God speaks through them. According to a report by The New Republic's Bradford Plumer on Ralph Reed's return to prominence after being linked to con man Jack Abramoff, Reed told a gathering in Washington, D.C. that Fox News' Sean Hannity convinced him to come back to the political fray. Considering Hannity's long history of GOP boosterism, this is not particularly notable. What is notable how Reed claims Hannity accomplished this:

"Broken" was once the perfect word to describe Reed's career. In 2006, his campaign for Georgia's lieutenant governorship imploded after investigators revealed his work with con man Jack Abramoff. Reed, the choirboy-faced moralist, had been secretly lobbying on behalf of an Indian casino, and the press was quick to write his political obituary. But after Barack Obama swept into the White House on the strength of a high-tech political organizing juggernaut, friends implored Reed--the former executive director of the Christian Coalition and one of the key architects of the GOP congressional takeover in 1994--to get back in the game. As Reed tells his audience at the Mayflower, a phone call from Sean Hannity persuaded him. "I wanted to know that this was not me," Reed says, "that this was not any ambition of mine. I wanted to know that this was the Lord." Reed breaks into a sly grin as he recounts Hannity's response: "Ralph, God is speaking through this phone line right now, and he's using me to deliver the message."
Apparently, after Reed returned to politics, he chose to help Hannity's Fox News colleague (and self-proclaimed fellow vessel for God) Glenn Beck assist with the founding of the Black Robe Regiment. Beck has since invited his "friend" Reed onto his radio show to thank him for his role in the 8-28 rally.

Reed was actually not the only Abramoff-linked figure involved with Beck's 8-28 rally. Black Robe Regiment member and repeated Beck guest Rabbi Daniel Lapin is the man whom Abramoff reportedly "credits" with "introducing him to" Tom DeLay.

To recap: God is supposedly speaking through Fox News hosts, and he's telling them to help rehabilitate the political prospects of people linked to convicted felon Jack Abramoff.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010130052

And CNN fires Sanchez for expressing a personal opinion??? WTF is wrong with these yahoo's at Faux?