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10/29/10

Glenn Has A Dream!

6 Terrorists Inspired by Fox News and Glenn Beck

By Jim Edwards | October 28, 2010

By all accounts, the advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel over the ideological fuel it provides to right-wing extremists is going nowhere. Only Zurich Financial Services has said anything about it on the record: they’re “reviewing the situation.”


It was a quixotic quest, but not an unreasonable one given the way Fox and Glenn Beck in particular  seem to be inspiring conservatives to engage in armed civil war with their liberal neighbors.
Perhaps advertisers don’t know quite how extreme Fox and Beck have become:

The recent incident in which a Kentucky county campaign coordinator for Senate candidate Ron Paul stomped on the head of a female protester is not an isolated example. Here are six actual terrorists inspired by Fox News. They have killed six Americans and wounded six others between them. (Seven, if you count the woman who took a sneaker to the skull from Paul’s man):
  1. Charles Wilson: Sentenced to prison last week for repeatedly threatening to kill Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). His cousin, in a letter to the court, said: “While his actions were undeniably wrong and his choices were terrible, in part they were the actions of others played out by a very gullible Charlie. He was under the spell that Glenn Beck cast, aided by the turbulent times in our economy. I don’t believe that Charlie even had the ability to actually carry out his threats.”
  2. Byron Williams: Arrested while driving to the HQ of the liberal non-profit group The Tides Foundation carrying numerous guns and body armor, intent on killing everyone in the office, before moving on to do the same thing at the ACLU. Williams confessed he views Beck as a “schoolteacher” who “blew my mind.” The would-be killer admitted that Beck “give[s] you every ounce of evidence you could possibly need” to commit violence. He awaits trial in jail.
  3. Jim David Adkisson: Killed two people and wounded six others in a shooting attack at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in West Knoxville, Tenn., in 2008. Adkisson was inspired by Fox commentator Bernard Goldberg: “This was a symbolic killing,” Adkisson wrote. “Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I knew these people were inaccessible to me.” Goldberg is the author of 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37)
  4. Richard Poplawski: Charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers who responded to a 911 call about a family dispute at his mother’s Stanton Heights home in April 2009. Polawski “loved Glenn Beck,” according to his mom.
  5. James W. Von Brunn: Fox itself was reportedly in danger from white supremacist Von Brunn who was arrested after opening fire at security guards, killing one, at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. One of his targets was apparently a “Fox News location.” One of Von Brunn’s pet issues was President Obama’s birth certificate, a “debate” that got plenty of air on Fox.
  6. Greg Lee Giusti: Arrested for threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom Beck himself has said he would like to poison. Giusti’s mom said: “Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family, which gets him into problems … I say Fox News, or all of those that are really radical, and he, that’s where he comes from.”
Beck spends a lot of time intimating that one day the federal government’s jackbooted thugs will come for us all, at gunpoint. It’s actually the other way around: Beck’s own viewers are the gunmen who want to kill those with whom they disagree. (And note how it’s law enforcement officers and security guards who are mostly taking bullets from Fox’s viewers.)
I’m not saying Fox supports terrorists. I’m saying Fox inspires them.
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12 comments:

  1. Mem, I contend that all the Muslim extremist Islamo-Nazi Beheaders out there are driven to added violence by MSNBC and NPR and are emboldened by all the anti-american left who are always vilifying our troops and opposition to their victory Mosque on ground zero.

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  2. American Horse, I am glad that you posted your views here. It will be good for my grand daughter and others to see what the left had to deal with and history will prove how blind the right was! Thanks for showing the future generation what we have had to deal with!

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  3. In response to American Horse:

    I don't see any mainstream American media outlet vilifying American troops. Would love to see proof of what you're claiming. There is a huge difference between a Government, which declares war, and the troops which carry out their perceived patriotic duty to that Government - no matter which Government it is so long as that Government is basing their decision to make war on valid principles beholden to the clear and present danger of the people which it governs.

    As an individual, let me add that as far as I'm concerned, ALL warriors are misguided, immature, incapable of rational thought and/or simply needing to kill/maim/torture something.

    There is no honor in blind fealty - only cowardice, faulty reasoning, stupidity and self loathing.

    Would like to remind you that it was the conservative right who protested so vehemently against the Muslim Cultural Center in New York City, if memory serves me. And even that doesn't make any sense to me - one would think a conservative radical would love a target that big right here at home.

    Best regards.

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  4. Anonymous great comment and I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for posting.

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  5. Anonymous great comment and I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for posting.

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  6. In response to American Horse:

    I don't see any mainstream American media outlet vilifying American troops. Would love to see proof of what you're claiming. There is a huge difference between a Government, which declares war, and the troops which carry out their perceived patriotic duty to that Government - no matter which Government it is so long as that Government is basing their decision to make war on valid principles beholden to the clear and present danger of the people which it governs.

    As an individual, let me add that as far as I'm concerned, ALL warriors are misguided, immature, incapable of rational thought and/or simply needing to kill/maim/torture something.

    There is no honor in blind fealty - only cowardice, faulty reasoning, stupidity and self loathing.

    Would like to remind you that it was the conservative right who protested so vehemently against the Muslim Cultural Center in New York City, if memory serves me. And even that doesn't make any sense to me - one would think a conservative radical would love a target that big right here at home.

    Best regards.

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  7. American Horse, I am glad that you posted your views here. It will be good for my grand daughter and others to see what the left had to deal with and history will prove how blind the right was! Thanks for showing the future generation what we have had to deal with!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Mem, I contend that all the Muslim extremist Islamo-Nazi Beheaders out there are driven to added violence by MSNBC and NPR and are emboldened by all the anti-american left who are always vilifying our troops and opposition to their victory Mosque on ground zero.

    ReplyDelete
  9. American Horse, I am glad that you posted your views here. It will be good for my grand daughter and others to see what the left had to deal with and history will prove how blind the right was! Thanks for showing the future generation what we have had to deal with!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Anonymous great comment and I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for posting.

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  11. American Horse, I am glad that you posted your views here. It will be good for my grand daughter and others to see what the left had to deal with and history will prove how blind the right was! Thanks for showing the future generation what we have had to deal with!

    ReplyDelete
  12. In response to American Horse:

    I don't see any mainstream American media outlet vilifying American troops. Would love to see proof of what you're claiming. There is a huge difference between a Government, which declares war, and the troops which carry out their perceived patriotic duty to that Government - no matter which Government it is so long as that Government is basing their decision to make war on valid principles beholden to the clear and present danger of the people which it governs.

    As an individual, let me add that as far as I'm concerned, ALL warriors are misguided, immature, incapable of rational thought and/or simply needing to kill/maim/torture something.

    There is no honor in blind fealty - only cowardice, faulty reasoning, stupidity and self loathing.

    Would like to remind you that it was the conservative right who protested so vehemently against the Muslim Cultural Center in New York City, if memory serves me. And even that doesn't make any sense to me - one would think a conservative radical would love a target that big right here at home.

    Best regards.

    ReplyDelete

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