On Maddow, author Schaeffer says messages of "doing away with Obama" "pouring out of Fox News" amount to "trawling for assassins"

I watched this interview last night, I have to admit, he frightened me with the facts. I agree with him and feel something awful is going to come from the radical right. When he compared the Taliban and Al Queada to the Radical Evangelicals, with a lot of similarities, then mentioned the killing of the Abortion Doctor, really shook me up.

It's about time the FCC started monitoring Fox and held it accountable for such messages.

And here's another example . . .

WARNING: don't listen on an empty stomach:

pastor in Arizona prays for Obama's death

Who says it better than Rev. Schaeffer and who should know better??

He says these crazies 'are the drunk at the end of the train filled with 100 rational people'!!

Rachel should have given Rev. Schaeffer more time; his points were valid. WHERE are all the voters to counter the lies of these extremists??

Calling said people liberals. Distancing themselves from them. Crying context, First Amendment, and witch hunt.

Unfortunately, for America and everyone concerned, the "fringe"is now running the show. A number of people, like Max Blumenthal in his recently released "Republican Gomorrah", document this takeover. Perhaps most frighteningly is that they fit well with the decades of research Altemeyer has been doing on authoritarianism, and documented in his e-book and web-page "The Authoritarians".

There's no one left but the fringe. All the adults are gone.

Somebody finally has the courage to say it. the Law Of Unintended Consequences of suggestive language.

With all due respect, I think in many cases we are beyond Unintended Consequences. The intent is quite clear, i.e. "trawling for assassins".

To view the use of Scripture against Obama through a secular lense is to ignore the potency of the message. Pat Boone wrote a recent piece at Newsmax where he used a "parable" of tenting or gassing the Whitehouse to exterminate the vermin within. The use of Scripture and Biblical imagery is a deliberate call for intervention to those who have a strong connection with the Word of God as represented and interpreted in the Bible. This is Taliban methodology using Christian doctrine.

This is, in my view, very scary stuff. Rev. Schaeffer is making this point.

We have shed some friendshipsat our church. I have always questioned motives in the more extreme christianity, specially those voicing " holier than thou " opinions, "hiking the Appalachial trail " liars, DC Madam legislator customers,an others I could fillthis particular thread with.

I agree wholeheartedly. Narcissists such as Beck are their own worst enemy. Somehow Limbaugh and O'Reilly survived after the public was shown what kind of people they really are. The difference here though, is that Beck teeters on the edge of inciting civil unrest. Limbaugh and O'Reilly are just loud mouth hypocrites with varying degree of influence (Limbaugh more so than most in terms of the direction of the GOP).

But, Beck, as I said, is a different animal. He came real close to showing us his Leopard spots, when he called the President a racist and claimed he hated white people. He was walking the edge of the razor that time. He knows how dangerously close he was to ruining himself. That being said, I think he realizes the potential of him being a catalyst for some crazy person doing the unthinkable. That is why he constantly indicates that he is against violence but he knows the kind of people he is reaching. He's got people digging bunkers in their back yards and buying up emergency food deals. These are the kinds of people who are just one suggestion away from being no different than some Muslim strapping on C-4 and walking on a crowded bus in Isreal.

The fact that Beck is compelled to cover himself with pleadings of non-violence to his audience is evidence enough for me to realize that Beck knows who's attention he is grabbing. Of course, that is Becks cross to bear and believe you me, that day of reckoning is not a far fetched idea any longer.

I amend all my earlier thoughts on Beck. I truly believe he and his ilk are extremely dangerous people. I know Nazi comparisons are a dime a dozen, but if you want to see the early roots of Nazism look no further than a man who preaches doom to his flock. This doom he foresees is the fault of a particular group of people. It is the intense love of country (Nationalism) which he calls out for as a rallying cry to stop the people who are destroying his country. Please, someone, convince me that Beck doesn't mimic the thought patterns and ideology of a certain few who lived in 1929 Germany.