Beck's call to violence: "Shoot them in the head"

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Beck's call to violence: "Shoot them in the head"
by Jed Lewison
Fri Jan 21, 2011 at 08:46:02 AM PST

Earlier, Markos wrote about a June 2010 clip from Glenn Beck's show in which Beck said told his audience that Democrats like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had used progressive revolutionaries to gain power and that the only way to stop them would be to "shoot them in the head."

Beck's words were such an obvious incitement to violence that it's hard to believe Fox ever allowed them on the air. But the fact is that they did, and the full context of Beck's remarks make it clear that he meant every word to be taken literally.

As you'll see from the video, which I've posted below along with the full transcript, Beck delivers his monologue in front a Swastika that he'd put on his chalkboard earlier in the program. Beck argues that Democrats have risen to power by cynically leveraging the efforts of progressive revolutionaries who are plotting to overthrow the American government. Together they form an unholy alliance that threatens America's very existence, Beck says.

So who are the members of this unholy alliance? Beck put their names on his chalkboard: Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Cass Sunnstein, Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Jodi Evans, Andy Stern, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, and -- I kid you not -- Rosie O'Donnell. The only way to stop their plot, Beck says, is to "shoot them in head" before they "shoot you."

You can watch the full video here: http://www.dailykos.com/

It's worth noting that this wasn't the first time Beck told his audience that the only way to stop their political opponents was through violence. In 2009, he compared President Obama to a bloodsucking vampire, and said the only way to stop him would be to "drive a stake through the heart."

It's bad enough that Fox gives Beck a platform to spew his paranoid conspiracy theories, but the fact that they look the other way when he explicitly calls for violent action against political enemies is truly outrageous. It's one thing to put a partisan hack like Hannity on the air. That's just politics. But broadcasting a paranoid lunatic who openly calls for violence crosses far beyond any recognizable line of decency, even for Fox.

http://www.dailykos.com/

[Ian David]

1. Glenn Beck sucks.

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. But "both sides do it." Right. Good post. K&R nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Kick

[Fly by night]

4. WOW. I didn't know that.

Or maybe ....

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