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It’s not just liberals who are scared to death by Glenn Beck. Prominent conservative pundits are speaking out, denouncing his hysterics before he sinks the entire movement.
It seems Glenn Beck is the man of the hour, with gushing profiles in The New York Times, exploding ratings, and the rapt attention of left and right alike. Yet Fox News and Beck's appeals to its more militant and conspiracy-minded elements are creating a backlash among a surprising group: the right.
Take Charles Johnson, a jazz musician and software programmer who is best known for his Web site, Little Green Footballs. Although an independent himself, for years Johnson's LGF has been one of the most popular blogs on the right, focusing mostly on national-security issues and the war on terror. It's also been a magnet for criticism from the left and even denounced by some as a "hate site" for its strident criticism of radical Islam.
"They've taken a real turn to the hard right, and Glenn Beck, I think, is kind of riding that wave," said blogger Charles Johnson. "I don't know if he's necessarily going to incite violence, but I do think it's irresponsible.”
But lately, posts on jihadists have dwindled in favor of a new target: Glenn Beck. Just this week, Johnson went after Beck for using violent imagery and rhetoric in a segment where he pretended to douse a guest with gasoline then threatened to set them on fire, accused Beck of promoting conspiracy theorists, and posted a video of attendees at one of the "Tea Party" events heavily promoted by Beck advocating for book burning.
In an interview, Johnson told The Daily Beast that he was extremely concerned by a lurch to the right among conservative media outlets, particularly Fox News, which he said has begun "deliberately pandering to extreme-right personalities."
"They've taken a real turn to the hard right, and Glenn Beck, I think, is kind of riding that wave," Johnson said. "I don't know if he's necessarily going to incite violence, but I do think it's irresponsible. It kind of drags down the discourse to a level that I, for one, am not comfortable with."
According to Johnson, he was most shocked by Beck's recent recommendation of books by Cleon Skousen, a longtime poster boy for far-right conspiracy theories about a "one-world government" that are now making a comeback.
Johnson says he has received a flood of hate mail and attacks from bloggers since he began publishing posts rebuking Beck, but strong support as well, including from some of his usual critics on the left.
"In a way it's nice and in a way it's a little ironic, because some of the same people have been calling me every nasty name in the book for eight years," he said.
Even while the network's ratings surge, Johnson is not the only high-profile blogger who has gone after Fox News lately. At Hot Air, Michelle Malkin's right-wing news site, one of its most popular writers, the anonymous Allahpundit, has been taking Beck to task as well.
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Antinous
Fox "News" has really gone loco recently with Beck and a general anything goes approach. I wonder if Homeland Security will infiltrate the mobs they want to provoke. And maybe fox News itself. One can hope.
Emmorie
A terrorist does not have to do bodily harm. They spew hate and divisive talk. Fox News needs to be entitled Foxs Opinion Network. I know of local fights over listening to Beck and Hannity. Do these terrorists realize the damage they do OR is it all about the monney?
idiotking
Actually, I don't hope that... That would just reinforce and justify their paranoia. I'm content to let themselves keep getting so crazy they drive off every sane person who used to side with them... I just pray that they don't harm anyone.
drfadhel
That is the last thing you want to do, it will feed their frenzy, give them rope, eventually the idiots that the are, they will hang themselves with it
Harley2002
I just pray that they don't harm anyone.
Brahahaha what are you brain-dead? I guess only leftists like you and Cede Pink and Acorn are allowed to voice there opinions right? If we working people take time off to voice our opinions we are nuts right? Notice I said time off as we work for a living we don't just sit around like your protestors living off government grants waiting for a bus and marching orders form George Soros.
VenusMuse
I don't recall ACORN getting any "mocking" from news media. In fact, it was Andrew Cuomo that called up and PAID ACORN cronies to protest in front of AIG execs. It was ACORN cronies that jammed a Chicago radio station so a conservative guest wouldn't go on air.
ACORN cronies are paid, they are there to intimidate - as they did w bankers to loan unqualified borrowers. Hence, why Freddie and Fannie got us into this mess.
idiotking
Gee, Harley... remember Oklahoma City? Remember that nutjob in Pittsburgh last week? That's what I mean when I say I pray they don't harm anyone. Whenever you go stoking irrational fears and conspiracy theories, you run the risk of stirring up people who AREN'T particularly sane or safe.
I've got no problem with people organizing, protesting, and disagreeing all they want... it's the nature of democracy. The problem is when instead of protesting we get nutjobs talking about armed insurrection against a democratically elected government.
pr54321
It's terrifying. These guys aren't going to be satisfied until someone gets hurt.
PhilMcRoin
I like how I can point out all the propagandist talking points in everything Harley and Venus say.. it's mesmerizing
I am a hard working American and I am a free thinker.. does that make me a communist or a socialist?? because I educate myself and dont just take what is fed to me by mainstream media as fact??
so i guess anyone who doesn't agree with neo-con right wing agenda is a jobless tree hugging welfare taking communist..
o and it wasn't the loans that sank the economy, it was the packaging and selling and reselling and insuring them as low risk investments for YOUR pensions that sank it..
THEY (the government (big business and unions)) do not care about us hard working folks.. we are just resources.
Stop crying over spilled tea because your liar didn't win the election and a different liar did.. The money would be spent either way.. don't you kid yourself.
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DeaconDrJones
Last I heard, Code Pink and Acorn were not hardcore gun enthusiasts whose answer to everything is more guns and less civility. You may not like hippy leftists, but you don't need to worry about them pulling a gun on you or blowing up buildings. The right really needs to take a look at themselves. Religious extremism, militancy, nationalism, weapon fetishism; sounds a lot like the nuts that they are so afraid of in other countries. You fools won't be happy until the US looks like the Middle East.
And don't give me the Weather Underground of any of that sixties leftism shit, those guys have migrated to the right (ala David Horowitz), where extremist nuts are currently held in high esteem.
Grannie1942
Amen to that. If they are #1 in cable news, what is wrong with we Americans. He is vicious and devisive. Glad CNN saw fit to discard him.
Harley2002
I wonder if Homeland Security will infiltrate the mobs they want to provoke. And maybe fox News itself. One can hope.
Wow according to fools like you we should not listen to conversations from oversees that sre from terrorists but you are hoping DHS investigates it's own citizens and a news outlet. And this mob you are talking about is normal hard working people who do not want there pockets picked to give free stuff to losers like you. And we are millions Bub so they better get more agents because this is just the beginning and we will not be silenced by Fascists like YOU.
drfadhel
absolutely, the last thing that the democrats should do is fall prey to temptation and emulate the vices that right wingers like you have been comitting for the last 8 years. We worship our freedoms not your false gods. Please weep yourself out amd douce yourself with all the gasoline in the world we will cheer you on
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MTFinch
optimus:
I think you are being a bit dramatic, and so is this article. Glen Beck isn't the furthest commentator out there.
tic0s01an04258
glen beck, keith olberman, sean hannity... these clowns are used by the networks to entertain the empty minded viewers who need to be told what to think. I agree w/ drfadel in the sense that the only dangers these people will pose is to themselves and possibly a couple of innocent bystanders that get too close to their idiot rallies.
ElLamer
Finally.
I'ts nice to see there still are some "true conservatives" out there. Since when did this "attack all critics at all costs and by any means possible" crowd get in charge of the GOP, out with them and in with the true conservatives (like the ones the greatest generation tell me about ;) "you know there was a time when the conservatives were the level headed adults in the room" some tell me.
Book burning, the guys with the guns make the rules and people who respond to "We are not supposed to torture people." by calling the guy stupid and ignorant are not true conservatives. Not by my grandparents standards.
Check this out if you missed the Limbaugh caller http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904070031?show=1
debbieqd
I remember that time, ElLamer. I'm a Democrat, but back in the day, we could have good, honest discussions -- left and right together because what we all shared (and knew it) was love of country.
I can't get my mind around what has happened to the GOP, but it appears the "base" is getting ready to create another Timothy McVeigh, or a Timothy McVeigh group. They've been whipped up and enraged to the point of becoming irrational.
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perdidochas
ElLamer wrote: Since when did this "attack all critics at all costs and by any means possible" crowd get in charge of the GOP, out with them and in with the true conservatives (like the ones the greatest generation tell me about ;) "you know there was a time when the conservatives were the level headed adults in the room" some tell me.
Well, they looked at what seems to work for liberals--i.e. attack critics at all costs, and decided to run with it.
SharksBreath
"Neither our support nor our opposition should be based on hysterical responses to policies that we just don't like," Horowtiz wrote. "Let's leave that kind of behavior to the liberals who invented it."
Nah David. That one is all yours. I guess we must forget about the stories of how the Clinton's murdered people.
It seems as thought the only ones who suffered Bush Derangement Syndrome is the Republican party.
You guys followed the guy who will go down as the worst president in our history.
You have to be crazy to follow that guy.
connie47
Glenn Beck is playing a role that nets him big bucks, thanks to Fox, and doesn't mind a bit that he's making conservatives look like complete idiots.
VenusMuse
Actually MSNBC Olberman is the big nut! Watch out liberals, Olberman will get you with his bogus rants.
socialworklady
And what do you think of Beck?
drfadhel
The difference is that Olberman actually has a brain, he talks to people intellect not their animal instinct, a little over your head may be? to intimidating for feeble right wing brains
MTFinch
Olberman is no worse or better than Glen Beck in their tactic.
Jillcooks
I see, you find a "Conservative" blogger that doesnt agree with Beck and now "they" are turning against him..that is rich. Beck is informative and our country has forgotten that old chestnut about those who forget history..... This tax revolt is about common sense, we are spending too much and need to stop it, We cannot spend our way out of debt we need to live within our means. Crazy...I know.
idiotking
Beck is informative mainly as a reminder of what can happen to your brain after years of alcohol and prescription drug abuse...
Ritarita
Jill
This tax revolt
Is a crystal
Clear
Demonstration
Of how
A very large slice of
The country has absolutely
No idea of what
Is going on.
They're fearful
And blindfolded
And don't know
The first thing about economics
Or why the money
Is being spent.
They're lashing out
To keep from wetting
Their pants.
I'm laughing but
It's only so
I don't cry.
MTFinch
Rita
Rita -
It sounds like
You are wetting your pants
And
Crying
At the same time
To me.
I only wish
I had a clue
Of what is going on.
Please
Explain it to me.
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Finch
I don't think
An explanation is going
To help you.
xbainx
It's only information if it's true. There is a standard test to see if you can be rehabilitated: How old is the earth? Anything less than a couple Billion years for your answer and your out.
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perdidochas
Clinton only managed to do that because he had a Republican Congress forcing him to. Also, this bubble that recently busted didn't start during the GW Bush admin, it started during the Clinton admin.
MTFinch
"Clinton - 4.6 percent increase in national debt every single year he was in office - HOW DID HE MANAGE TO OVERSEE THE GREATEST PERIOD OF ECONOMIC GAIN AND REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING - BECAUSE HE WAS A DEMOCRAT."
Actually, it was because of his conservative economic policy. Surprise!
"Sit down and shut-up"
If only Republicans were as enlightened as Democrats.
Janotec
If anyone has been watching the National News these last two week, you sow our tragedy in Pittsburgh when three policemen were killed and two more were injured after responding to a domestic situation between a twentysomething son and him Mom over of all things the dog peeing in the house! How does this relate to this article? The guy was armed to the teeth and he believed in Conspiracy theories and that the government was taking his right to own guns away. Seeing the funeral for these upstanding officers and their families mourn makes it clear to me that these outrageous theatrical antics on Beck, Limbaugh etc. should be scrutinized and held responsible for the wake they leave in our society.
OHNOTAGAIN
But wait....both Newscorp, Beck and Rush are making money. Isn't that America at it's best.
Banjo1
The left needs to marginalize the right in order to maintain Obama's lease on power. This translates into attacking every prominent figure who rises in opposition. You saw it with Palin, Limbaugh and now Beck. Unable to match their arguments, the left tries to delegitimize them by viciously ascribing to them the qualities sane people associate with the useful idiots on the left: hate, paranoia and plain weirdness. At the sane time they try to refloat such old shipwrecks as McCain, a tame RINO they like as long as he's not running for president. When he did, same old story. McCain was old, cranky, about to get cancer and die.
VenusMuse
It's true ,the left wants to kill anything to do with "traditional values" and simply via Obama admin and his 100 czars is to control society.
Glenn Beck and all the conservatives will remain superior to the old left.
Obama, leave America alone!
jzj9yx
I'm on the left. I don't want to kill anything to do with traditional values, but I do want to kill the idea that anyone who doesn't kowtow to the religious right is somehow immoral or "bad".
However, the uproar over Obama wanting taxes on the very rich to return to the level they were at under Nixon is a lot of sound and fury and signifying nothing. The Glenn Becks of the world are swooning and fainting and having dizzy spells simply because they *lost* and no longer get their own way on every piece of legislation.
It's pathetic, and more than a little ridiculous.
idiotking
America elected Obama, Venus. Deal with it. I know it's not pleasant... trust me, I wasn't terribly happy after America elected Bush in 2004. When you're on the losing side, the government is going to do things you... DUH, disagree with. That's the way it works. Ya have a problem, you make a better argument, you convince people, and you try again.
The second Obama wants to do away with elections, seize all private property, or eliminate all independent media, I'll be right there in the trenches with you... but if I can deal with (what I believed) were the gross injustices and violations of American values in the Reagan and Bush administrations, I'm sure you're mature enough to handle Obama's policies in a mature fashion. Or is that hoping for too much?
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n--Y--wantingxbainx
I am pretty sure John McCain is going to outlive the Republican party. Or good old Meghan will start a new one. Very clever, trying to get liberals snapping by naming the goofball trinity as "unable to be matched".
I almost got upset. Then I just remembered you don't buy it either.
OHNOTAGAIN
But wait....
John Mccain does not support Palin anymore, and that is the Dems fault? Between her ex-son in law, her convict sister-in law, her pregnant teen-aged daughter, now she has a problem with the wife-raping AG she has nominated. What leaders you Conservatives have!!
ROTFLMAO!!
drfadhel
love it, are we serious here Mr. Banjo player? Rush and Peck actually have arguments? They are just hate mongers attacking Obama because he is "a closet Muslim" "anti American" "danger to national security" if this is an argument, I have a pyramid to sell you in Cairo
Hawnzz
Good God Almighty it's hot in here tonight! Wooo!
Sahas24
Beck is popular, gets good ratings, and actually says some pretty wise things-most of which come directly from the words of America's Founding Fathers. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he's well studied, too! Nevertheless, liberals (and supposedly now Republicans) bash him like there's no tomorrow. Where was the outrage when he was on CNN? The "irresponsibility" I see doesn't emanate from the people who support and watch him (and they're not loonies, by the way, no matter how hard the liberal press tries to smear them), but the people who will do anything to solidify their own political agendas, especially those terrified that Beck may actually be echoing the things many Americans who haven't been brainwashed-and who may or may not have voted for Obama--are thinking. And perhaps Beck and the people who watch him do, indeed, have something to fear after reading the recent Department of Homeland Security "warning" to law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity" which, of course, is meant to target conservatives and includes many who might disagree with the present administration and who support following the Constitution and responsible taxation (oh my God, now that's loony!). In fact the "report" even named "disgruntled war veterans" as a segment of the population who may go bonkers at any moment. And might I mention the government of Missouri who recently warned their state police that Christians, "sovereign citizens", those opposed to abortion, tax revisionists, and anti-illegal immigrant advocates are potential would-be terrorists. And thrown in with that lot are people with third party bumper stickers that mention candidates like Ron Paul. Now if that's not something to fear, I don't know what is-and it should terrify EVERY American, no matter whom they voted for.
Ritarita
Simple.
He reached
New heights of
Cuckoo
At Fox.
Because he could.
'24' is not drama
There
It's a
Reality show.
VenusMuse
You're right - CNN didn't smear Glenn Beck - this guy is great!
Libs - leave the guy alone, the majority of his viewers, 2.5 million daily - jealous ABC, NBC, CBS ?
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n--Y--wantingDenjudge
Beck is insane. He is, in Bill O'Reilly's words, a "loon." I saw him a few times on CNN. I was outraged. I sent him at least 2 emails, while he was on CNN, expressing my outrage over his fringe point of view and his antics. It should be noted that Beck was actually on Headline News, and, if I'm not mistaken, on at an odd hour.
Further, Beck's antics are becoming more odd and wacky as time goes on. That's a big reason for the outrage now, compared to when he was on Headline News.
I saw Beck defending himself the other day by claiming that he spoke out against Bush and his deficit spending. I have to ask, did Beck call Bush a "socialist," a "marxist," a "communist," or a "fascist" as he is now calling Obama? Did Beck show Nazi imagery when he spoke about Bush? Last week, I heard Beck say that we have been marching towards fascism ever since Teddy Roosevelt. If Beck believes this, surely he would have been pulling these stunts when Bush was president.
I voted for Obama; I am still very glad that I did. However, I do not agree with everything he says or does. And, yes, I am concerned about the huge deficits being run up. At the same time, I don't really think anyone really knows how to fix the economic mess we are in, caused by the previous administration.
Even if I agreed 100% with Beck's message, I would not watch him; I would be outraged with him because he is, once again, a loon of the highest order. He is frankly one of the most embarrassing creeps you will ever see in the media.
peppermint
Wow, just what would you disagree with Obama about? Oh, that he's leading us off a cliff which we'll never climb out of. Your last paragraph tells it all. Even when you are 100% agreeing, you don't watch? How does that make sense. Do you have a TV?
Beck is the best thing to come out of Fox in years. He will bury the loons at MSNBC.
OHNOTAGAIN
Because NEWSCORP Media Complex has hijacked the Tea Party Protest to hold on to the tax cuts for the wealthy is sad. Why do Republicans vote against their own best interest. Eric Odum who originated the Tea Party was all about SPENDING protests not TAXATION protests but dittoheads follow while being misinformed. Now that is SAD!!
hardrain
OK. I read the report. I assume written by the same DHS employees who worked there before Obama.
The report states that right-wing extremist groups might try to recruit returned soldiers for their military skills. Not exactly targeting vets. Also the evidence for a rise in "rightwing extremist activity" is fairly substantial. If nothing else look to the run on guns and ammunition, and Chuck Norris' call for a "violent revolt".
ALSO there is a similar report on LEFT-WING Extremist activity. Only with the left-wingers the gov. is more concerned they will hack into the govt. computers and disrupt the system, not blow up a Federal building (Tim McVeigh anyone?)
And of course this should terrify everyone. But where was the fear and indignation when the govt. was doing it to the left for the last half decade (and longer, some would argue). Google Nicole Salazar arrest.
Gotta wonder just how sincere your statement really is.
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PhilMcRoin
So you are basically saying that the cops are changing their profiling to include some of the crazy white suburbanites??
I know it feels a little weird being on the other side of the fence, but you'll get used to it.. being a little tense and nervous when a cop pulls up next to you even though you've done nothing wrong, wondering if you should nod at him or if that will piss him off, wondering if you should just keep looking straight or will that make him think you are up to something. Should I keep my hands at 10 and 2 or 9 and 3?.. ok leave em both up there so he see's both hands.. don't make him nervous, or will he think I've something to hide with both hands on the wheel?? oh what to do what to do.. ok he's gone.. don't turn around and make sure.. he might be still be watching..
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Sahas24
You're kidding, right? If not, you might be the one with the psychiatric illness.
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OHNOTAGAIN
But wait...
Have you noticed that all the leaders of the Republican Party are known drug addicts? Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin. Nuff Said!!
ROTFLMAO!!
Ritarita
Glenn
Beck
Is a wild
Wahini
For sure
But he caught the
Biggest wave
In the ratings wars
And now he's
Crying his way
To the bank
Because
His audience
Needs a bandaid
For their
Fear.
VenusMuse
Glenn Beck is terrific and a very entertaining, informative and procovative talk show host. I love him, his presentations and his messages.
It obvious the liberal media is scared to death of Glenn Beck - gee, are they going to try an intense smear campaign against him like other conservatives?
I gotta say, DHS really needs to focus on their own, they are dividing the country and shutting down spirited debates.
This writer needs to back up his story w facts, not opinions from liberals/dems/progressives!
Ritarita
Stay classy
Always
Venus.
liviapeacock
VenusMuse, what you don't understand is that Beck is having the last laugh--the joke is on YOU. He is just a Stephen Colbert character, not believing any of his own horse shit.
Poor morons like you think he's smart; He's no Ivy leaguer like Colbert, but he's pretty damn smart to pull the wool over all y'all's eyes over there in nut job land.
VenusMuse
You're apart of the "poor morons" livipeacock - if you don't like Glenn Beck, his message, his show, don't watch him!
Go back to MSNBC loons like Olberman and cling to your tv set. That is apparently all you are capable of.
drfadhel
Venus,
Please run for office, heed the call of the Republican party, they need people like you, and you're exactly the type that we want as competition, just made my day
VenusMuse
drfadhel -- maybe you should heed your own suggestions. Liberals should show confidence over bashing those you believe don't fit your liberal opinions, big government.
The bashing of opposition isn't necessary. Bring someone better to the dance next time.
PhilMcRoin
Venus
Why do you assume that if someone thinks beck is a moron that he must be watching msnbc and he must be a liberal..
o
wait
that's what you've been programmed to believe.. and then once you've been programed, you gotta call everyone else brainwashed.
You are a victim of mind control
I really wish I could have a nice thought provoking conversation with some of my "conservative" coworkers.. but I can't, because they are all programed with the same line of bs. I say 'conservative" because most of them are blue collar "joe six-packs" that have no idea what they are actually supporting.. and that MY FRIEND is exactly why we have these shows.. because as the greedy get greedier, they thin the heard, so they have to resort to mind control to get votes. DO SOME RESEARCH.. LEARN SOME STUFF!
ittybittykitty
Wait a minute. Isn't this article about the RIGHT wing media criticizing Beck? I'd like to know what some of the more conservative readers think of that. I think it is interesting. I miss civil discourse between right and left that are based on educated, well-thought out opinions rather than knee-jerk reactions. Seems like some of the folks on the right are recognizing that. I believe that there are a lot of the people in the middle who are tired of the hysterics on both sides and would like to get back to a place where we can have a reasonable discussion of the issues. The U.S.A. has a lot on its plate right now and I think it is going to take the best and brightest brainpower of both the left and the right to get us out of this mess!
Grundy
Finally, a note of sanity. Thank you ittybittykitty.
Ritarita
Grundy
You don't come here
Looking for
Sanity.
Admit it.
Hawnzz
Thank you indeed, Itty.
I won't watch anyone who looks as if they are going to have a heart attack or can only yell as if that makes their point of view have more meaning.
I'm so sick of people labelling one party as intrinsically "evil" or "daft". The full range of the political spectrum is required for a functional democracy. One of the ways I avoid being a puppet for either party is to get my information from many sources both American and foreign.
Beck is very difficult to excuse. His antics aren't those of a journalist. They aren't those of a professional pundit. They don't foster civil discourse. In troubled times those are truly important things....
Bulldoglover100
Scared of Gelnn Beck? LOL Really? Not in this lifetime and the majority of people look at him and laugh but hey go ahead and try to pass off your right nut jobbers as normal respeced people. People with guns and an inability to accept a black man watch Glenn Beck.....not the majority of people in this country who put Obama in office. Wait til the 2010 elections and see who the big losers are when people like Beck are their cheerleaders. LOLOLOL Afraid of a nut job? Really LOLL change parties man and earn some respect for your craft.
VenusMuse
Benjamin, you might want to watch a few episodes of Glenn Beck. I thought "journalism" meant you reported the truth and it's intended message, not taking out of context.
You missed the point here: " Glenn Beck. Just this week, Johnson went after Beck for using violent imagery and rhetoric in a segment where he pretended to douse a guest with gasoline then threatened to set them on fire.."
It was water dude.
idiotking
"pretended to douse a guest with gasoline"
"It was water dude."
Um, you DO know the definition of "pretend," right? Actually, having read some of your posts, I'm not sure you're too solid on any "reality/fantasy" distinctions...
QueenofSheeba
Tina Brown! enough botox...your eyebrows are crazy and you're writers are even crazier. I'm what some people would call a classic liberal...alas, they exist no more. Who are these new, angry voices? Such hypocrisy as well. I have watched Glenn Beck on CNN and I've seen him on Fox....he's still the same man....I don't think he's crazy, why is everyone saying that? He has passion and believes a certain way. Let's not shut down our rights to free speech people! The "right" is made up of really great hard working Americans as is the "left"....lets not let the fringe ruin it for everyone. And Tina? lay off the botox and rid the site of hard leaning leftist dribble....it's not doing anyone any good.
sippewissett
Beck is an irresponsible 'ranter', not a news person (as FOX purports) nor a journalist. He uses inflammatory rhetoric that incites irresponsible conduct, as demonstrated in the recent Bingham, NY "going postal" tragedy, in which Beck was named in the suicide note.
Is this REALLY who we want on the airwaves? Beck is part of the anti-intellectual movement that Palin stirred up last year and that Fox is fanning with its overt support of "tea parties".
Is Beck representative of who we have become or does he have air time on TV to attract the fringe? Regardless, I fear that we will not understand the incendiary impact of his ranting until we have more tragedies to which he is linked. THEN WHAT?
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