Beck is feeling the heat

[sadbear]

Anyone else listening (on Sirius-XM)? And he's also trying to blame this on someone named Frances Fox Piven. Is this the best they can come up with for violent rhetoric on the left?

[cleanhippie]

1. WHO are those on the left that are "equally spewing the rhetoric?"

Everytime I hear that, I wait to hear who that is, but really, WHO on the left is talking that way?

[sadbear]

2. Soon, they'll be quoting some DU poster with only 21 posts

as their evidence that both sides do it.

[ewagner]

3. Per wiki...

Frances Fox Piven:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fox_Piven

so.......

somehow this has to do with the "motor-voter" bill? Or poor people? Or liberal efforts to increase participation in government and open access to government services to everybody?

Even for Beck this is a stretch....

[DCKit]

4. A vast, left-wing conspiracy, initiated by a person 99.9999999% of us have never heard of.

Makes perfect sense.

Thanks for clearing that up Glenn. :crazy:

[Tsiyu]

5. You've got blood on your hands, Beckie Boy

And on your face and on your shirt and your pants

and all over your goddamned blackboard

hope you never sleep at night thinking about the people you've helped kill by fanning the flames of hate....

[Xenotime]

6. Thats because they have no other evidence of violence on the left.

[Fleshdancer]

7. This makes no sense to me. I Googled Frances Fox Piven:

Unless there's another Frances Fox Piven, I don't understand what Beck is getting at...

From wikipedia:

Career

Piven earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962. In 2006–2007 she served as the President of the American Sociological Association. She was married to her long-time collaborator Richard Cloward until his death in 2001. Together with Cloward, she wrote an article in the May 1966 issue of The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".<1> Her critics have called this the "Cloward–Piven strategy."

Activism, Legislation and the Department(s) of Motor Vehicles.

Throughout her career, Piven has combined academic work with political action. For instance, in 1983 she co-founded Human SERVE (Service Employees Registration and Voter Education), an organization whose stated goal was increasing voter registration under the linking of social services or Department of Motor Vehicles usage with voter registration offerings. Human SERVE's initiative was taken up by the Clinton administration and made it into the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, colloquially called the "Motor Voter Bill".

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. All his radio shows will be presented as evidence.....

....that he is clinically insane when he gets hauled into court finally.

[Fleshdancer]

9. I've been wondering about his mental health for years

At first I thought it was just a ridiculous act like his gross shock jock shtick back in the day, but now I don't know. His odd chalkboard "connections" just get more and more strange and he appears to really believe the voices in his head. It's not just a cable news show anymore either. Now he throws rallies, writes books, has odd stand-up shows that play in movie theaters and none of it makes sense.

[izzybeans]

10. He's been demonizing social scientists for a long time. This is is one of his favorites.

It's like a default switch for him. Because he spent so much time on Piven and Cloward before he has to blame her for everything now.


Piven is well known for her work on poverty. This scares the puppet masters pulling Beck's strings. All those poor white people in his audience can not know about the works of social science.