My only concern regarding Beck & his enabler, Fixed News...

[pacalo]

is that they are cultivating an atmosphere of proactive, violent hatred. When these ignorant people are no longer content listening to Fixed News’s dangerous messages on the sidelines, there’s going to be a real danger of blood shed on the streets.

They are cheapening this country’s original concept of freedom. Freedom of speech was not intended to protect & defend the spreading of hatred for a political party’s bought-&-paid-for “let’s-misinform-the-people-because-it's-the-only-way-we-can-win-elections” network.

It’s deplorable & I’m disgusted that they’re able to get away with it.

[babylonsister]

1. And not one rethug calls them out on this; that imo is another

reason to hate the opposition. They don't want to work for us, and they put up with this kind of divisiveness that could be potentially dangerous.

[pacalo]

2. It's gotten way of control.

:hi: babylonsister!

[babylonsister]

4. Yes, it has. I don't even know of one rethug

with enough clout to calm this situation down. Scary.


:hi:

[monmouth]

3. "Granma", the communist paper in Cuba is as credible as Fox News...n/t

[pacalo]

5. When I think of Fixed News, I remember learning about Russia's media propaganda

in the '60's.

[Initech]

6. Fux Noise: We hate, you decide.

[Hugabear]

7. It already has lead to violence

For example, the Muslim cabdriver in New York who was stabbed...

[RamboLiberal]

8. There is already blood on the streets

Like the whack job in July that went up against CHP with a cache of firearms on his way to Tides (which was a favorite Beck target) and the ACLU.

And there have been several other incidents in which much hasn't been spelled out by police what they found but which could very well have some ties back to perpetrators getting their whacky ideas from Faux among others.

Tuesday a book is coming out I'm interested in reading:

Will Bunch is author of the soon-to-be-published The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama -- an in-depth look at the rise of the New Right, including the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, the Oath Keepers, and radical extremists in Congress. The book, published by HarperCollins on Aug. 31, 2010, is based on extensive interviews and travels from the hot spots of Arizona to Beck's American Revival to Kentucky's Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch

One case Bunch covers is the murder of 3 police officers in my home area of Pittsburgh in April, 2009 by Richard Poplawski. Bunch came back and did an extensive investigation

This January, I spent several days in Pittsburgh investigating the Poplawski case and seeking to learn more about what really motivated him to kill three police officers. The research was for a chapter in my book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, which comes out at the end of the month. I learned quite a bit -- including a couple of new details about the shooting and Poplawski's past that will be revealed when the book is published. But the main thing was that Poplawski's fears about the "Obama gun confiscation" was the proverbial tip of the iceberg when it came to his increasingly paranoid ideas that he seemed to glean largely from talk radio and from Beck.

"Rich, like myself, loved Glenn Beck," Poplawski's best friend Eddie Perkovic told me during a long interview in his narrow rowhouse on the steep hill running down to the Allegheny. (Perkovic had a lot of time -- he was wearing an ankle bracelet for house arrest because of an unrelated case.) Perkovic and his mom -- who also had a close relationship with the accused cop-killer, still awaiting trial -- told me that for months Poplawski had been obsessed with an idea -- frequently discussed by Beck, including in ads for his sponsor Food Insurance -- of the need to stockpile food and even toilet paper for a societal breakdown. Poplawski was also convinced that paper money would become worthless -- another claim given credence by the Fox News Channel host, particularly in close connection with his frequent shilling for the now-under-investigation gold-coin peddler Goldline International.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/pop-poplawski-the-high-de_b_675796.html