Beck's violent rhetoric keeps having real world consequences
October 22, 2010 6:02 pm ET by Oliver Willis
On today's radio show Glenn Beck said he couldn't believe that Stephen Broden, a frequent guest on his Fox News show and a pastor who attended his 8-28 rally, said that violent overthrow of the U.S. government is an option that "is on the table."
In fact, as the video shows, the reports of these comments are accurate:
Broden has appeared on Beck's show at least 6 times in the last year (via Nexis). In July, Broden was part of Beck's panel of "preachers and pastors" who were there to provide "a look at today's news." Broden also appeared with Alveda King to discuss their version of the history of the civil rights movement. Beck cited Broden's association with Alveda King as one reason he didn't believe the charges of violent rhetoric. Notably, Alveda King has compared same-sex marriage to genocide.
It's notable that in the report on Broden's rhetoric, much of his most outlandish comments are major premises of Beck's radio and Fox News show. Broden discussed health care reform sending seniors to early graves, Beck has promoted the "death panel" myth. Broden claimed that the Obama administration planned the economic problems facing the country, while Beck has said that Obama administration is engaged in a plot to "collapse the system." Broden compared the current administration to Nazis, while hardly a day goes by when Glenn Beck doesn't invoke the Nazis in his discussions of the Obama administration.
Beck has said that progressives support "armed insurrection," and that President Obama is "poking and prodding" the Tea Party to violence, while simultaneously urging his followers to use peaceful means. But Beck's fans keep taking his violent rhetoric to its logical conclusion; his words have been echoed in the comments of Broden, as well as the actions of cop killer Richard Poplawski who reportedly was a Beck fan, and of course attempted assassin Byron Williams who was a devotee of Beck's numerous conspiracy theories.
They just want to hurt people.
Small dogs bite because they want to be tough like the big dogs.
Perhaps he should be.
He's already been on the fence for losing advertisers and even some at Fox are getting tired of this fool.
he might be on the ropes as we speak.
Really? That's what you have?
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Oh yeah, and they're obviously not scared to go outside.
Beck's audience isn't an active mob, they're more like a bunch of paranoid shut-ins with the occasional psycho gun nut who actually does something.
This country has it all backwards. The Tea Party should be against the megscorporations that we have had to bail out as well as the oil industry that fights for deregulation, doesn't implemet safety standards to cut corners and then destroys our environment. Instead these lunatics are fighting the government, which is the ONLY entity big enough to stop this corporate malfeasance. They are actually attacking the one thing that could effect real change.
We want to be a capitolist society, but we have to realize without regualtions in the banking, energy, medical and defense industries they will continue to rape and pillage our society.
We should learn a lesson from the French and demand that the middle class has a fair chance to work and succeed. Otherwise we are the United Corporations of America and our Govt is of, by and for the big industries and not for the people. This is the result of massive propaganda beginning on talk radio. 95 percent of our airwaves are hosted by corporate prostitutes like Rush, Beck, Hannity, Savage etc. They are very talented con men. Using patriotic, populist rhetoric and baseless conspiracy theories they have succeeded in manipulating millions of Americans to focus their rage at the Government and Obama and protecting the big industries that pay these jokers vast amounts of money to spew their lies.
It Seems like all this website wants to do is zero in on Fox.
How petty and boring.This isn't the type of thing I had in mind when I joined.I thought a title of "MediaMatters for America" would be open and factual.The title is misleading.
This is the kind of thing David Neiwert is talking about when he says that right-wing radicalism is being mainstreamed.
When democrats lose an election we get back to work trying to get back in power.
When republicans lose they go b@tSh!t crazy and do anything and everything to get back in power. They lie, the cheat, the tell half truths, they practice character assassination on an unprecedented level, attack candidates and their families, carry guns to events, and now there is actually PUBLIC talk about killing democrats.
Sharon Angle and her "second amendment remedies" This clown, and others.
The people that are perpetrating this violence are animals.