Beck continues to suggest violence is part of WH strategy: "They may be purchasing baseball bats right now"
February 16, 2010 10:38 am ET
From the February 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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Time to find a new metaphor. These baseball references are getting ever so stale.
now glenn "ed wood" beck on the other hand has called for violence plenty of times. hmmmmmmm interesting
Shoot captured taliban dude in the head
busting knee caps
and now baseball bats
So I take all this to actually mean....
Obama has been moving up in the polls. When the President seems to be doing well Beck resorts to violent imagery and rhetoric
The fans that Beck has however are stirred up by such imagery of the Administration going out and buying bats. It plays upon the audience's fears of a violent uprising and their loss of country and control as a result of brute force.
Again, my point is that one would have to be very simple-minded to be stirred up by that imagery when the President is, by Constitutional mandate, in control of the United States military.
Just a helpful hint...you are still kinda new here [I think?] so until folks get to know you & your posts better, if you're being sarcastic...just include that in your post. After awhile you won't have too. Folks will know.
I knew you were being sarcastic because we've chatted, but Jedi obviously didn't.
I'm sure he'll apologize when he reads your post, again ;-)
I was taken aback by being labeled an unintelligent troll, but I hope my response produces no hard feelings jedi.
But this kind of rhetoric can fire up the angry folks out there...the ones that hang on Beck's vision that Obama is evil & must be stopped.
I'm not someone who would call for the removal of a Beck or Limbaugh from the airwaves. But it's long past the time that these guys need to tone this kind of crap down.
Got a beef guys? Then handle it like mature grownups, state your case/complaint & knock off the violent imagery & words.
Hear, hear!
But, in hindsight, maybe it's best that he didn't.
Mormons would have a fit, publicly, and rent it, privately.
No, none of his listeners actually thought the administration was out buying bats.(we all know rahm already has his bat) No, it's not stirring anything up!
. . . unless we're talking about the "bats" in OldNeoKKKon's "belfry" . . .
You are naive.
Become a fan on Facebook.
And you cannot depend on financial consequences to keep people honest because the media and its consumers love a good story, true or not. As long as Fox can make a buck on Beck, there's no reason to stop him or hold him to a higher standard.
Because Fox News is part news and part commentary, they should not be allowed to call themselves a News show (esepcially in light of their legal position of "We are not obligated to tell the truth").
The FCC needs to flex its legal muscles and force Fox to remove the word "News" from their marketing and replace it with something that represents its actual Commentary function. Then they need to fine Fox (or any other supposed News media outlet) for every instance of misinformation that they broadcast as News or even Commentary. Doesn't the crime of Slander mean anything anymore?
In this way, dishonest media would finally listen to what they understand best: money. This would solve the Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity problem once and for all, or at least, it would limit their playing field to a narrow sidewalk.