"How the right-wing media and Glenn Beck's chalkboard drove Byron Williams to plot assassination"

[TomCADem]

Here is yet another recent example of a right wing militant whose views were based on what he watched on Fox News:


http://mediamatters.org/research/201010110002

"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

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In an affidavit, an Oakland police investigator reported that during an interview at the hospital, Williams "stated that his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU."

Fifteen years after militia-movement-inspired bombers killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City federal building, right-wing domestic terror plots are a fact of life in America. Since 2008, violent extremists -- many of whom subscribe to the hate speech and conspiratorial fantasies of the conservative media -- have murdered churchgoers in Knoxville, police officers in Pittsburgh, and an abortion provider in Wichita.

Conspiracy theory-fueled extremism has long been a reaction to progressive government in the United States. Half a century ago, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote that right-wing thought had come to be dominated by the belief that Communist agents had infiltrated all levels of American government and society. The right, he explained, had identified a "sustained conspiracy, running over more than a generation, and reaching its climax in Roosevelt's New Deal, to undermine free capitalism, to bring the economy under the direction of the federal government, and to pave the way for socialism or communism."

[crazyjoe]

1. The Beatles were responisible for the Manson murders

[WinkyDink]

3. Analogy much? Where in Beatles' songs are lyrics pro-murder, as opposed to RW-radio's anti-Fed rants

[crazyjoe]

2. Islam responsible for 9/11 ?

[WinkyDink]

4. No, American troops in Saudi Arabia, if you believe the Osama Theory.

The Project for a New American Century, if you believe the Cheney Theory.