“Did Shep Smith just call out Glenn Beck as being one of those responsible for the recent rash of death threats against members of Congress who voted for the health care bill?”

No.

Get a life, Glynnis. And actually read the quotes next time.

Shep Smith, thank you for your balance on Fox!

It’s clear to anyone who can read that he was talking about Beck and I would expect Shep to have his hands slapped, pronto!!

Despite what leftists claim, this proves that Fox not talking points for the republicans.

Someone get this RINO OFF of FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News)!!1 Him and GERALDO should be shipped off to GITMO with all the other America Haters instead of being allowed to SPEW his “balance” on the air!!1 I haven’t been this mad since he spoke out against SO-CALLED “torture”!!1 HEY SHEP – I’ve got a DISHRAG and a bottle of POLAND SPRING with YOUR name on it!!1

You lefties are too funny. Fox is right wing, but you have NO problem when Shep spouts off his leftest views.

And Glynnis,
There is no proof that this happened, just accusations, but there are several videos out there and strangely enough none of the accusations can be substantiated. What a surprise.

Wow; it’s Beck’s fault?

It has nothing to do with all the back room deals? all the arm twisting? the pork in the bill that a majority of Americans do not want?

It has nothing to do with the fact that that they voted for a bill that their own constituent (majority of them anyway) had made it clear that they don’t want?

it has nothing to do with elected officials not representing the will of the people who elected them?

Note to Shepherd…Glenn Beck may draw high ratings, but his ratings pales in comparison to the MSM. His show is not even in the top 25 Cable shows (like OReilly’s is)…and forget about broadcast news comparisions…

Blame Beck? Are you kidding me?

You’d make a better argument blaming Bush than you could blaming Beck…(since, because of Bush, we now have Obama and Pelosi in office)…

Glynnis is going to have a good time with her moment of Glenn today. Beck is talking about “Don’t become them” and showing how the liberals used bombs and violence and how “they” want you to become them. The they of course are the liberal media who praise the Bill Ayers of the world and condemn the peaceful demonstrators.

I’m watching Glenn too TfT and he is so right. They are trying to bait people into violence because they need that. It’s truly pathetic, but not really unexpected anymore.

MichelleF

Its good to see somone sane at Fox!

Look, Shep is doing Beck a favor. If someone shoots a politician because of his health care vote and it turns out that person was a big Beck fan, the national outrage will bury Beck, and hurt FOX as a whole too. Now the ball is in Beck’s court to spend a segment condemning any violence, and encouraging his faithful to use the democratic process and not their side arm.

valkyrie101 says:
March 24, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Look, Shep is doing Beck a favor. If someone shoots a politician because of his health care vote and it turns out that person was a big Beck fan, the national outrage will bury Beck, and hurt FOX as a whole too. Now the ball is in Beck’s court to spend a segment condemning any violence, and encouraging his faithful to use the democratic process and not their side arm.

valkyrie101,
If you bothered to watch him, you would know he’s always done that. You’re doing what beck is warning about, trying to make people believe that these things are happening when there isn’t a shred of proof, just the word of some dems, who let’s face it, aren’t to be trusted. The list of violence on the left FAR outways that on the right, the leftist media just won’t talk about it.

MichelleF – Yes, the “lefties” are making the tea-baggers act like racist bigots and I wish the MSM would point this out.

Oh no…here’s something else the msm and the left are making tea-baggers do; from HuffPo.

“Authorities are investigating the severing of a gas line at the home of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother following the posting of his address online by Tea Party activists.”

Tea-bagger motto – They made us do it.

Ted, ya think it was the same guys that threatened Jim Bunnings life with bomb threats last month?

or

Is there a photo of a guy with a Tea Party hat severing that gas line?

or how about this one, if a black guy beats his wife, are all black guys wife beaters?

Michelle, I am not going to argue with you. Let’s say you are right. OK. What to do? Everybody who is influencial on both sides of the political isle must urge everyone, no matter how mad they are about whatever, to chill. Beck has lots of followers. They are passionate. He must urge them to channel their passion into the democratic process, at the ballot box or whatever, and away from any violence. Beck must plead with his people to never use aggresive violence. And he needs to reinforce that regularly. I suppose the same must be said for those on the left, but frankly, it is not the ones on the left who are literally up in airms. Beck should have condemned those people who brought side arms to the tea party events, and the Obama speeches. He should have condemned those carrying violent or provacative signs at the tea party events. Now he should make up for lost time. If something bad happens, if another Timothy McVeigh shows up now, with tempers high, it could become a real mess..

I appreciate the fact that you like Glenn Beck. But you have to admit, he is provacative. Some people maybe misunderstand him. So Glenn needs to set the record straight. Otherwise, if something happens out of the right, he WILL be blamed.

If Beck is blamed, if anything happens, it will be by idiots. Beck has never endorsed violence, it is the left that advocates violence and then tries to blame the right for it.

Beck will be blamed no matter what happens. Might I remind you of the census worker who committed suicide and he AND the media tried to blame it on the right. Then when it was proved a suicide, there was barely a mention. No matter what happens or doesn’t happen (like bogus threats) the right will be blamed and it’s getting really old.

That is glenn’s whole point. But the left is never going to admit this. They are trying to contrive things that aren’t there. They are painting those who disagree with violent, when there is no evidence of this. The people aren’t “up in arms”, they are angy that they aren’t being listened to. There is a difference and I believe you realize this.

If 100 million people oppose Obamacare, the media will try to find one crazy guy in the crowd and build their whole “narrative” around him. It’s intellectually dishonest and pathetically evasive. But if you took away this stupid game, MSNBC and other fellow travelers wouldn’t know what to do with their air time. They certainly have no intention of actually covering real issues, like trillion dollar deficits, 10% unemployment, etc.

timzank – Here’s some more…enjoy!!

“Oh well, collateral damage.” Local tea party leader, Nigel Coleman after posting online the address of Congressman Tom Perriello’s brother whose gas line was deliberately cut

By the way, I do not hold Mr Coleman accountable for his moronic comment. Its the fault of the liberal media.

OMG! have you heard msnbc lately, shultz, shuster, olbermann, matthews, and in fact the majority of msnbc, but these are the worst, just because it happens to be obama in office and they love him and they don’t attack this president listen to them on Republicans, ever heard them on BUSH, disgusting! listen to them on the tea party, on anyone who goes against the almighty obama, that kook ratigan went crazy recently on some congressman, would not let him even talk, I think it was a congressman, it was a definate person that did not agree with obama. Beck is tamed compared to the trash from msnbc, but then most here love msnbc the few who watch it, what is their ratings now, pretty close to the bottom, that says it all. and as far as shep, he belongs on cnn or msnbc you libs love him because he is a lib in disguise but he knows where the ratings are, he is not dumb and you see no one like that at msnbc, its all libs and scarborough is no conservative believe me. And Beck is nothing compared to the nuts there. You all just hate him because he is doing so well , believe me if Beck were to call msnbc right now they would love to have him. now you libs here fire away

Shep is right.

The right wing is telling people that the legitimately elected officials of this country, if they don’t do exactly what the *minority* party wants, are not listening to the will of the people. Now, if you hammer the message, over and over, that the president is surrounded by radicals and Communists, America is on the road to socialism, health care reform is Armaggeddon, and the Congress is ignoring the will of the people, do you think some people might just take that as incitement to violence? You think? It’s not the left’s fault that people are throwing bricks through windows at Democratic party headquarters and making death threats and yelling racial slurs and waving signs showing Obama as Hitler. This is not complicated. Some on the right are way far out of touch with reality, and Beck is driving them further out there with the lies he tells. Beck should be blamed. Because he’s saying this stuff every day, and it IS dangerous, and he doesn’t care as long as it’s good for ratings.

All Glenn has to do, and I believe he will do this, is urge his people, again, to not engage in violence or threats of violence. I have heard him do that before. If he is really clear with his people on that, on a regular basis, then he should not be blamed if someone goes off. On the other hand, if you scream fire in a crowded theater, and someone gets trampled in the panic, there is culpibility in that. If Glenn keeps saying that the government is evil, that it intends to strip everyone of their liberty, lock people in internment camps, or mobilize the army to round up gun owners, all of that kind of stuff, which is crazy and not true, and way over the top of reality, then people will hold him accountable for terrorizing people. And scared people do crazy things.

Why have not the conservative politicians, commentators and tea party leaders not condemned, in no uncertain terms, people carrying fire arms to peaceful protests? Why no condemnation of those signs that threaten violence, or promoting blatant racism? It really does not cut it to just blame liberals or Obama for that. Saying that it is Obama’s fault that they feel that way is to condone the unacceptable conduct. By saying nothing, by marching along side people like that, it constitutes a kind of endorsement and that empowers those people to step even further over the line of civility. IMHO. I am sympathetic to your tea party movement because 99% of them are just regular people trying to get their voice heard. I agree with you that it is not fair to blame the 99% of the people for the unruely acts of a few.

da-wdc, do you not remember the anti-war and other protests during the previous 8 years, when people were holding up “Bush=Hitler” signs and pictures of Bush with a Hitler ‘stache? Or how they “joked” about him choking to death on a pretzel? You think pro-military members of Congress didn’t receive threats then?

Speaking of the anti-war protests, where are they these days? We’re still in two wars, but now that they have their guy in the White House, they don’t say a word.

Oh, no…someone on Fox spoke the truth….HE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!!!!

When you hear that Armaggedon is coming, the end of America as we know it is upon is, this country is doomed, this president wants to turn us into slaves…etc, etc, etc…yeah, that’s some inciteful rhetoric.

It’s funny, someone said that Shep Smith saying this proves that Fox isn’t a Republican talking points network. And then a few posts later, Michelle calls him a leftist, and Karl Spensen calls him a RINO….FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH!!!!

By this logic, if Shep Smith proves that Fox isn’t a Republican talking points machine, then Joe Scarborough proves that MSNBC isn’t a Democrat talking points machine. I’m an evil leftist progressive, socialist, communist, fascist, Nazi baby (and puppy) killer, and even I know that’s boloney!

If you righties truly believe that Fox News is a “fair and balanced” network, you should have no problem having a view you perceive as “leftist” being shared by Shep Smith. Especially when it’s true.

Ted,
Can I assume that when the left was calling for Bush’s murder, you were equally as outraged?

stoogedudes, I don’t have a problem with Shep being a lefitst, I’m not the one that’s saying there is no diversity of opinion on fox. It’s you lefties that are always saying it, but you’re ok with Shep voicing HIS opinion aren’t you?

c’mon…these people were dancing in the streets when Rush Limbaugh had to be rushed to the hospital! how many posts did we all see hoping that he would die? how many disgusting snarks from the Olbermann-Mathews crew? have you ever heard Beck wish someone would die? he would never do that–that’s not what he’s about.

the hypocrisy of the Left is stunning.

I’m fine with Shep voicing his opinion…just as I am with Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, et al. But what I don’t like is when they hide behind the “fair and balanced motto”. If they’d get rid of that damn motto, I’d say to Sean, Glenn and Bill, “Go Crazy! (in a sensible manner, mind you). News people like Shep can share their opinion in the same fashion as Shep, but they cross a line when they speak propaganda from whatever side they are on.

Also, Olbermann and Matthews never hoped for Rush Limbaugh to die. And as much as I detest Rush Limbaugh, I wish him good health. I would never wish ill health on my political foes.

I will say this though, as disgusting as some Tea Partiers are acting with spitting on Congressmen and calling Barney Frank a you-know-what, and what have you…this is a very passionate time. I do not believe the Tea Partiers are hateful people, but they need to calm the hell down. I thought the same thing during the Bush administration. Yeah, Bush was not great, but I was ashamed of liberals when they went all ape-sh** on Bush, and am still embarrassed by it. But what we are seeing now is at the same level or higher, but it’s going to get worse. It’s only 2010! Obama’s first (or perhaps, only…wouldn’t you love that, righties?) term doesn’t end until January of 2013.

MichelleF – Unlike your reaction to the vile and repugnant bigoted comments from tea-baggers, the answer is yes. Good luck getting your head around that. Remember the tea-bagger motto; ah, I think you’ve memorized it by now.

Also, Olbermann and Matthews never hoped for Rush Limbaugh to die.

This ones for you stooge:

Chris Matthews: “at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into [Rush Limbaugh's] head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp.”

@Beth, I remember the past 8 years well. The Bush administration cherrypicked intelligence and lied to the country and took their eye off the ball in Afghanistan to start a preemptive war in Iraq, which is a pretty serious thing and provoked a strong response from the left for that reason. Bush and his administration also allowed detainees to be abused and tortured, and wrecked the economy, and accused those of us who didn’t support his policies of being unAmerican. He wasn’t Hitler and if signs said that, they were wrong.

But Obama, far as I can tell, won a free and fair election with a significant majority of the vote and a majority in Congress, and is enacting policies that the American people voted for when they elected him, including health care reform, which he promised to do during the campaign. To some on the right, this appears to mean Armageddon, Marxism, the destruction of America, and on and on and on. I don’t understand it. Other than, some of them are making good money saying it, and it seems to be easy for the GOP to stoke up fear and oppose everything, rather than try to work with the Democrats to govern the country.

You’re right, there hasn’t been much heard from anti-war protestors since Obama took office. Of course, he hasn’t started a war. He’s escalated one, though. For now he’s being given the benefit of the doubt on that by many. And we joked about Bush choking on a pretzel because it was funny! That’s not mean-spirited. That’s just laughing at something that is absurd. You have to admit, Bush is kind of goofy.

Ok, so for future reference, if you wish someone death and then laugh, it’s ok? I just want to make sure I have the rules right.

Chris Matthews: “at some point somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into [Rush Limbaugh's] head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp.”

Chris didn’t laugh when he said that, so what does that mean?

And what about when sean penn wished rectal cancer on those that don’t agree with him. I don’t think he smiled, so was that hateful?

I am O.K with Shep’s comments, but I think people are seeing what they want to see in them, not necessarily what he actually intended.

Funny thing is, the Dems seem OK with left wing extremists like Bill Ayres.

How does anyone know that the Dems didn’t plant these threats themselves?

Not trying to go off on a tangent with this, but to be clear, the “Bush choking on a pretzel” thing was not funny because anyone wished harm on him. It was just funny because it’s weird, that’s all. If I choked on a pretzel and fell and bruised my face, as long as I was OK, my friends would laugh about it.

As far as Dems planting these threats, for one, it’s been reported that a former militia leader instigated the window breaking:
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/22/1830379/democratic-offices-vandalized.html

I’m not defending those on the left who say hateful things, when they do. And they do; Keith Olbermann and Alan Grayson and Sean Penn among others are not helping the situation with the way they talk. But to my mind, the right is an order of magnitude worse. And they’re hurting their own cause and/or political party with the extreme rhetoric about Armageddon and Marxism and so on. They need better leadership and to forget about the Beck conspiracy theories that are entertaining but not true to reality. And they might have been able to defeat health care, if they’d been arguing about mandates and taxes, instead of about death panels and socialism.

You can see a CLEAR dividing on this very issue with the media, and ironically with this same Congressman. Remember weeks back when Stupack was a holdout on the bill for abortion reasons? At one point he said he and his staff were receiving violent and threatening calls and the like. Do you remember all the outrage we heard about that back then? I recall exactly what the press reported.

* crickets *

But now this is a serious issue. What a blatant load. I have heard a few of the recordings they have released to the press and the people are furious and many use vulgarities, but I have not heard any that constitute a true death threat. This is an orginized effort by the Dems and the media to tamp down the opposition they know exists over this bill. It is an extension of the rhetoric used in the past year to smear the Tea-Party movement with charges of violence and racism.

This has always been the way of the inferior, the weak, the sour minds of madness. Nobodies who have finally come to the realization that they will NEVER be anything other than – nobodies.

Perhaps the new health care bill will develop a vaccine for such collective diseases.