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David Brock Tells Matthews: “Glenn Beck Has Been Responsible For 3 Thwarted Assassination Attempts”

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Media Matters founder David Brock appeared on Hardball and revealed to Chris Matthews his allegation that “Glenn Beck himself has been responsible for three thwarted assassination attempts this year.” Brock listed three occurrences where a crazed assassin targeted a liberal politician or institution, and where evidence later emerged that the assassin may have been a viewer of Beck’s show.

Matthews just nodded in astonishment, not questioning whether such tangential evidence truly would establish Beck as somehow “responsible” for each assassination attempt. Ron Reagan was slightly less inflammatory with his criticism of Beck, merely asserting that Beck, “constantly refers to political opponents on the left as traitors, treasonous, Marxists, fascists, Nazis, [and saying] we’ve got to do something about it, we may have to take to the street. You can see that as entertainment, but some people like Mr. Loughner are not going to see that as entertainment, they are going to take it seriously. . . . We all expected something like this, awful like this, was going to happen and it did.”

In a discussion about toning down the rhetoric on both sides, it seems as if the founder of Media Matters and Ron Reagan may have missed the memo.

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  • Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller’s Rally Feb 3rd

    Take that!

  • Big Eddie

    If you can’t trust Media Matters and the Tutu Fairy , well who can you trust ?

  • Jackyboy

    Oh we can just make stuff up on national television now? Oh cool.

  • stephenkaus

    Talk about Catch 22.

    The right wing wants “evidence,” and when it is offered, the speaker is accused of having missed the memo on toned down rhetoric.

    I don’t see how it can seriously be questioned that starting with the final days of the McCain-Palin campaign, many right wing figures have used hyperbolic language designed to question the patriotism and motives of liberals and Obama and have found violent threats and references at tea party rallies to be useful.

  • tigerprez

    Yeah, and the Beatles caused Charles Manson to have his followers kill all those people.

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is more delusional: the psychos who attack people or the liberals who see anyone who disagrees with them as the cause of that violence.

  • SteveMG

    Good grief. This is acceptable political rhetoric?

    A thug watches a show, he does something awful, therefore the show was responsible?

    Joe McCarthy had higher standards of proof before he attacked people.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Gonna be pretty hard for you libs to say that you libs aren’t saying anyone other than the shooter is responsible now. You just can’t stay away from the steaming pile of poo you keep stepping in. It’s like a magnet for you!

  • Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller’s Rally Feb 3rd

    I thought Dingell gave a good speech. Here is a portion of the transcript.

    Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), by contrast, ran through a litany of now-infamous statements by high-profile politicians, leaving blank the names of people and issues under threat.

    “Let me read some statements that I have seen to be pretty awful,” he said on Wednesday.

    Here they are in order:

    * Quoting Sharron Angle: “People are looking towards the second amendment remedies and saying my goodness, what can we do to turn our country around.”

    * Angle again: “The first thing we need to do is take out blank.” The exact quote: “The first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.”

    * Quoting Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN): “I want people in blank armed and dangerous on this issue [of the energy tax] because we need to fight back.”

    * Quoting Glenn Beck: “I want to kill blank with a shovel.” The exact quote: “I want to kill Charlie Rangel with a shovel.”

    * Beck again: “Every night I get down on my knees and pray blank will burst into flames.” The exact quote: “Every night I get down on my knees and pray Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.”

    * Quoting Texas GOP candidate Stephen Broden: ”Our nation was founded on violence. I don’t think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.’­­­­­’ The exact quote: ”Our nation was founded on violence. The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.’­­­­­’

    * Quoting Sarah Palin: “Don’t retreat, reload.”

    * Quoting would-be Alan West chief of staff Joyce Kaufman: “If ballots don’t work, bullets will.”

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Matt says:

    Matthews just nodded in astonishment

    Was in nodding in astonishment or agreement? Me thinks agreement.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    I LOVE FOX NEWS, here are some ditties from you guys:

    I’m waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he’s choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!” — Left-wing radio host Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains.

    ■ MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2009 fantasized about the death of Rush Limbaugh: “Somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp”

    ■ Author/humorist P.J. O’Rourke: “It’s the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy-”
    Host Bill Maher: “You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean-”
    O’Rourke: “-from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs….”
    Maher: “You mean the OxyContin that he was on?…Why couldn’t he have croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?” — HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, February 8, 2008.

    ■ MSNBC’s Amy Robach in 2006 mildly wondered if “Death of a President” movie depicting the imagined assassination of President Bush was “poor taste or, as some say, thought-provoking?”

    ■ On his radio show in 2009, Ed Schultz wished for Dick Cheney’s death: “He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is an enemy of the country … Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you?”

    ■ Also on his radio show, in 2010, Schultz shouted: “Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him!”

    ■ Then-Air America host Montel Williams in 2009 urged Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to kill herself: “Slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to – or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.”

    ■ Writing on the Huffington Post in 2007, radio host Charles Karel Bouley mocked: “I hear about Tony Snow and I say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you? Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?”

    ■ “I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” — Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, 2007, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.

    ■ “Earlier today, a rental truck carried a half a million ballots from Palm Beach to the Florida Supreme Court there in Tallahassee. CNN had live helicopter coverage from the truck making its way up the Florida highway, and for a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris.” — Bill Maher on ABC’s Politically Incorrect, November 30, 2000.

    ■ Host Tina Gulland: “I don’t think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?”
    NPR’s Nina Totenberg: “Not me. I think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.” — Exchange on the July 8, 1995 Inside Washington, after Helms said the government spends too much on AIDS.

    ■ “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease….He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” — USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    You’ll notice I LOVE FOX NEWS, that the quotes I posted were actual death wishes unlike yours.

  • Cecelia

    It’s certainly more than a little ironic that in bemoaning a picture of crosshairs over political districts, many in the media make it clear that they unceasingly have their guns trained on specific public people.

  • SarahP.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    I LOVE FOX NEWS, here are some ditties from you guys:

    I’m waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he’s choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!” — Left-wing radio host Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains.

    ■ MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2009 fantasized about the death of Rush Limbaugh: “Somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp”

    ■ Author/humorist P.J. O’Rourke: “It’s the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy-”
    Host Bill Maher: “You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean-”
    O’Rourke: “-from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs….”
    Maher: “You mean the OxyContin that he was on?…Why couldn’t he have croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?” — HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, February 8, 2008.

    ■ MSNBC’s Amy Robach in 2006 mildly wondered if “Death of a President” movie depicting the imagined assassination of President Bush was “poor taste or, as some say, thought-provoking?”

    ■ On his radio show in 2009, Ed Schultz wished for Dick Cheney’s death: “He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is an enemy of the country … Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you?”

    ■ Also on his radio show, in 2010, Schultz shouted: “Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him!”

    ■ Then-Air America host Montel Williams in 2009 urged Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to kill herself: “Slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to – or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.”

    ■ Writing on the Huffington Post in 2007, radio host Charles Karel Bouley mocked: “I hear about Tony Snow and I say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you? Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?”

    ■ “I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” — Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, 2007, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.

    ■ “Earlier today, a rental truck carried a half a million ballots from Palm Beach to the Florida Supreme Court there in Tallahassee. CNN had live helicopter coverage from the truck making its way up the Florida highway, and for a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris.” — Bill Maher on ABC’s Politically Incorrect, November 30, 2000.

    ■ Host Tina Gulland: “I don’t think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?”
    NPR’s Nina Totenberg: “Not me. I think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.” — Exchange on the July 8, 1995 Inside Washington, after Helms said the government spends too much on AIDS.

    ■ “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease….He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” — USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.

    Congrats, you are exceptional at cutting and pasting. Maybe you can land a job flipping burgers – probably not.

  • TangledThorns

    Chris Matthews’s show is a tragedy on its own. Friggin’ sad.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Oh and the leader of the Tuscon Tea Party is also receiving death threats.

  • TangledThorns

    SarahP. said:
    Congrats, you are exceptional at cutting and pasting. Maybe you can land a job flipping burgers – probably not.

    You don’t like facts no matter the source? Imagine that.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Cecelia, were your ears burning? I was telling Grammie earlier that I missed you around here.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Brainstem, why didn’t you call out I LOVE FOX NEWS for his cutting and pasting? Are you scared of him?

  • Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller’s Rally Feb 3rd

    Cecelia said:
    It’s certainly more than a little ironic that in bemoaning a picture of crosshairs over political districts, many in the media make it clear that they unceasingly have their guns trained on specific public people.

    Cecelia, what happened? Fell off the wagon so soon? These are some of your recent quotes:

    “I decided in the New Year that I just can’t be part of that anymore. It’s beyond harmful for us.”

    “I am hardly a shrinking violet. I enjoy a rough and tumble discussion, but things have gotten so puerile and hateful, that I can’t bear politics anymore.

    I’m off MSNBC, FNC, CNN, political blogs, and news in general.

    Put a fork in ME. I’m done”

  • BFD

    I’m pretty sure that with 3 more assassination attempts Glenn wins a free Domino’s Pizza.

    Halfway there, Glenn.

  • Harry Flashman

    Talk about blood libel.

    If I were Beck I’d have some very serious, very mean, flesh eating lawyers rap-tap-tappin’ on that little jerk’s door. That was a very serious, pointed, and public accusation.

    I’d sue this guy into the next dimension.

  • Powerslave

    Not now, Iris.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window
  • Powerslave

    SarahP. said:
    Congrats, you are exceptional at cutting and pasting. Maybe you can land a job flipping burgers – probably not.

    I said not now, Iris.

  • SteveMG

    I just saw a commercial for a hamburger. That means I want to kill a cow.

    Thank you Mr. Brock for that bit of logic.

    I suggest that Mr. Brock write this up in a paper and submit it to the Journal of American Pyschology or some other journal. He’ll win the Nobel Prize for Science.

    Because my understanding is that they’ve studied the question of images and ideas and words and human behavior for several decades and the evidence is very murky as to how humans respond to such stimuli. It’s much too complex for us to understand.

    But apparently Mr. Brock has figured it out.

  • SarahP.

    BFD said:
    I’m pretty sure that with 3 more assassination attempts Glenn wins a free Domino’s Pizza.

    Halfway there, Glenn.

    Or an overnight with Rupert Murdoch.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Chris “I have a tingle up my leg” Matthews

  • juan

    MediaMatters? . . . (Snicker). . . .(Snicker)… Soros of “De Nu Verld Otta.”

  • notsofast

    Brock listed three occurrences where a crazed assassin targeted a liberal politician or institution, and where evidence later emerged that the assassin “may” have been a viewer of Beck’s show.

    LOL

    You libs lost on 11/02/2010- get over it.

    You tried to call everyone racists , that didn’t work, and now murders were caused by GB who, according to libs on Mediaite, no one watches.

    The other tragedy in this already tragic event is how the pusillanimous libs have hit their nadir in a despicable attempt to gain political favor on an altar bathed in the spilled blood of 6 dead people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Lascar/100000889579338 Ed Lascar

    This Mathews thinks that ..if he strikes ,day by day, Glenn Beck for nothing and for all, blaming the guy even for his own bunion…will heed one or two points of audience ….forget it. He is a tool!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 — and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions — is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who on Monday night recalled Palin’s statement, “We’re not retreating, we’re reloading,” and said, I quote, “THAT’S not a metaphor.”

    Really, Chris? If that’s not a metaphor, who did she shoot?

    By blaming a mass killing on figures of speech, liberals sound as crazy as Loughner with his complaints about people’s grammar. Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again.

    http://www.anncoulter.com/

  • cjd ohio 1

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    My show is absolutely non-partisan. Chris “I have a tingle up my leg” Matthews

    monday special…. obama’s america…. chris matthews will be a hard-hitting journalist non-partisan……..you’ll see lol

  • notsofast

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    My show is absolutely non-partisan.

    Yes, so non-partisan that after Barry was elected, Chris said it was his job to make “this presidency work.”

    Now, how more non-partisan can a journalist be?

    http://news-cycle.blogspot.com/2008/11/chris-matthews-its-my-job-to-make-sure.html

  • CosmosDan

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Oh and the leader of the Tuscon Tea Party is also receiving death threats.

    And the Tea Party Express is using the Tuscon tragedy for fund raising.

    Look, both sides are guilty of extreme rhetoric. There was a weapons manufacturer that was releasing a Joe Wilson “You Lie” engraved limited edition automatic rifle. Who do you suppose his target market was?
    Sharon Angle , a major candidate talked openly about 2nd Amendment remedies, and in the summer of 2008 a distraught man killed two people in a church claiming he hated liberals.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25872864/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

    We can play the useless game of seeing who can get the most violent sounding quotes or we can admit that the degree of animosity has gotten out of hand and media personalities from both sides are feeding it.
    Maybe the right and the left should encourage our respective talking heads to dial it back

  • Cecelia

    Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller's Rally Feb 3rd said:
    Cecelia, what happened? Fell off the wagon so soon? These are some of your recent quotes:

    “I decided in the New Year that I just can’t be part of that anymore. It’s beyond harmful for us.”

    “I am hardly a shrinking violet. I enjoy a rough and tumble discussion, but things have gotten so puerile and hateful, that I can’t bear politics anymore.

    I’m off MSNBC, FNC, CNN, political blogs, and news in general.

    Put a fork in ME. I’m done”

    What part of my statement (that you astonishingly seem to have filed away for the ready) suggested that I would never civilly discuss a political issue again or issue a measured criticism against any cultural influence?

  • CosmosDan

    BFD said:
    I’m pretty sure that with 3 more assassination attempts Glenn wins a free Domino’s Pizza.

    Halfway there, Glenn.

    Wow that’s pretty dark buddy.

  • Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller’s Rally Feb 3rd

    Cecelia said:
    What part of my statement (that you astonishingly seem to have filed away for the ready) suggested that I would never civilly discuss a political issue again or issue a measured criticism against any cultural influence?

    I’m off MSNBC, FNC, CNN, political blogs, and news in general.

  • juan

    SarahP. said:
    Or an overnight with Rupert Murdoch.

    Hey, FAKE, how about this:

    SuperWoman Sarah Palin terrifies the Left and all Democrats.

    She is more “masculine” than most Liberal men and more “feminist” than Liberal women.

    She has out-Witted and out-Alinsky’d Obama’s Liberal Slobbering Statist Media!

  • Cecelia

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Cecelia, were your ears burning? I was telling Grammie earlier that I missed you around here.

    hey, girl!

  • Cecelia

    Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller's Rally Feb 3rd said:
    I’m off MSNBC, FNC, CNN, political blogs, and news in general.

    “In general”, I am.

    That my commenting has decreased significantly, doesn’t seem to have gone unnoticed by you.

  • notsofast

    CosmosDan said:
    And the Tea Party Express is using the Tuscon tragedy for fund raising.

    ahhhhhh, you left out Bernie Sanders, a lib who calls himself a Socialist,who is also fund raising over the Tucson event. I guess that just slipped your mind?

    “Sanders went on to write, “There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money corporate interests and right-wing organizations will vigorously oppose me. Your financial support now and in the future is much appreciated.”

  • Fox News: Enlisting Patriots for Pam Geller’s Rally Feb 3rd

    Cecelia said:
    “In general”, I am.

    That my commenting has decreased significantly, doesn’t seem to have gone unnoticed by you.

    That is like an alcoholic saying they will only take an occasional sip from a bottle.

  • sticks

    First of all, I think its been established that Loughner does’nt watch news or TV, so HUGE stretch there… Second, what assanation attempts has Glenn Beck been responsible for ?… Again HUGE stretch !!… Third Glenn Beck is not now, and will never be responsible for the actions of others… The whole premise is stupid…

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Jackyboy said:
    Oh we can just make stuff up on national television now? Oh cool.

    Watch Fox News some time and you’ll see.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Cecelia, I had the same NY resolution, but I didn’t do as well as you. I was so fired up yesterday with what the left is doing that I had to call my father (affectionally known as Big Daddy) and have him talk me off the ledge. He’s been on this site, but doesn’t comment so he knows what I’m dealing with here. (On a side note, he’d love to have a “chat” with BFD and Royal Pain in the Butt) He’s like, just walk away, it’s not worth it and you’ll never change the minds of liberals who don’t care about truth. Sadly, I can’t, there is too much liberal idiocy to address. It’s a tough job, but we’re up to the challenge.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    ” “constantly refers to political opponents on the left as traitors, treasonous, Marxists, fascists, Nazis, [and saying] we’ve got to do something about it,”

    Nancy Pelosi Calls Townhall Protesters Nazis
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNWhm6WMmU

  • CosmosDan

    Dronetek said:
    Nancy Pelosi Calls Townhall Protesters Nazis
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNWhm6WMmU

    That didn’t fly the first time it went around. She was not calling protestors Nazis.

    Regardless, it’s not a defense of the shear volume of Beck’s use of Nazi , fascist, communist, or whatever, to point out that a liberal did it too.

  • ImNotBlue

    Let’s see… fundraising by a private political group, versus a long-time sitting Senator.

    They’re not really equal, are they?

  • CosmosDan

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    He’s like, just walk away, it’s not worth it and you’ll never change the minds of liberals who don’t care about truth.

    Honest, liberals do care about the truth. Opinions are not the same as the truth, when your fellow humans have a difference of opinion with you , it doesn’t mean they don’t care about the truth.

    Even scholars and people with much better credentials than you or I disagree , even when looking at evidence. So, I’m politely suggesting you understand the substantial difference between your opinion, which you have every right to same as everyone else, and the truth. They are not the same thing.

  • ImNotBlue

    Oh, and Im sure Brock and Matthews would agree that Al Gore was to blame for inspiring the Discovery Channel hostage taker… right?

  • philipjames

    Looks like George Soros is getting his money’s worth of hate from his organization, Media Matters. The liberals are really going for the gusto, aren’t they? Its as if they said, lets just throw hate all day and all night and show no shame. Not that liberals have any shame anyway.

  • Cecelia

    CosmosDan said:
    Regardless, it’s not a defense of the shear volume of Beck’s use of Nazi , fascist, communist, or whatever, to point out that a liberal did it too.

    Well, I think that you’re ignoring the distinction that it’s a bit different to make hyperbolic claims that certain ideological mindsets or political policies are reminiscent of said boogiemen, that it is to expressly state that someone has formented specific assassination attempts.

    That’s a sort of targeting that goes beyond putting crosshairs on political districts.

  • Cecelia

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Sadly, I can’t, there is too much liberal idiocy to address. It’s a tough job, but we’re up to the challenge.

    I think you do very well at handling some of the most vicious and highly personal disparagement that I’ve seen leveled at anyone on the internet.

  • felixw

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    I LOVE FOX NEWS, here are some ditties from you guys:

    I’m waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he’s choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!” — Left-wing radio host Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains.

    ■ MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2009 fantasized about the death of Rush Limbaugh: “Somebody’s going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp”

    ■ Author/humorist P.J. O’Rourke: “It’s the twilight of the radio loud-mouth, you know? I knew it from the moment the fat guy-”
    Host Bill Maher: “You mean Rush Limbaugh and Sean-”
    O’Rourke: “-from the moment the fat guy refused to share his drugs….”
    Maher: “You mean the OxyContin that he was on?…Why couldn’t he have croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?” — HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, February 8, 2008.

    ■ MSNBC’s Amy Robach in 2006 mildly wondered if “Death of a President” movie depicting the imagined assassination of President Bush was “poor taste or, as some say, thought-provoking?”

    ■ On his radio show in 2009, Ed Schultz wished for Dick Cheney’s death: “He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is an enemy of the country … Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you?”

    ■ Also on his radio show, in 2010, Schultz shouted: “Dick Cheney’s heart’s a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him!”

    ■ Then-Air America host Montel Williams in 2009 urged Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to kill herself: “Slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to – or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone.”

    ■ Writing on the Huffington Post in 2007, radio host Charles Karel Bouley mocked: “I hear about Tony Snow and I say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you? Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?”

    ■ “I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.” — Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, 2007, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.

    ■ “Earlier today, a rental truck carried a half a million ballots from Palm Beach to the Florida Supreme Court there in Tallahassee. CNN had live helicopter coverage from the truck making its way up the Florida highway, and for a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris.” — Bill Maher on ABC’s Politically Incorrect, November 30, 2000.

    ■ Host Tina Gulland: “I don’t think I have any Jesse Helms defenders here. Nina?”
    NPR’s Nina Totenberg: “Not me. I think he ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.” — Exchange on the July 8, 1995 Inside Washington, after Helms said the government spends too much on AIDS.

    ■ “I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease….He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” — USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.

    This is worth repeating.

  • CosmosDan

    ImNotBlue said:
    Let’s see… fundraising by a private political group, versus a long-time sitting Senator.

    They’re not really equal, are they?

    Oh please. Can we just stop with trying to measure this kind of thing. Neither was grotesquely trying to use this tragedy to profit. They just both made the bad call of including it with a fundraiser.

    I don’t find either as offensive as the GOP use of 9/11 for the nearly ten years.

  • tatboy

    I guess MSNBC has decided to double down on the vitriol. Mmmmmmm… double down… Soooooo tasty.

  • Cecelia

    Cecelia said:
    That’s a sort of targeting that goes beyond putting crosshairs on political districts.

    Let me add that Brock’s statement and Matthew’s tacit approval of it, goes quite beyond even the argument that certain rhetoric COULD encourage violence.

  • CosmosDan

    Cecelia said:
    Well, I think that you’re ignoring the distinction that it’s a bit different to make hyperbolic claims that certain ideological mindsets or political policies are reminiscent of said boogiemen, that it is to expressly state that someone has formented specific assassination attempts.

    That’s a sort of targeting that goes beyond putting crosshairs on political districts.

    I’m not ignoring it. It just wasn’t the subject of that particular post I was responding to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    CosmosDan said:
    That didn’t fly the first time it went around. She was not calling protestors Nazis.

    Regardless, it’s not a defense of the shear volume of Beck’s use of Nazi , fascist, communist, or whatever, to point out that a liberal did it too.

    She was implying that they were Nazis, when she knows very well the swastikas seen were used as hyperbole. Not in support of Nazis. As far as Beck goes, thats not the point. The point is these people in the media IGNORE it on one side and exaggerate it on the other.

  • SarahP.

    felixw said:
    This is worth repeating.

    Not really.

  • CosmosDan

    notsofast said:
    ahhhhhh, you left out Bernie Sanders, a lib who calls himself a Socialist,who is also fund raising over the Tucson event. I guess that just slipped your mind?

    “Sanders went on to write, “There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money corporate interests and right-wing organizations will vigorously oppose me. Your financial support now and in the future is much appreciated.”

    I’m aware of what Sanders did and have already acknowledged it was in bad taste in the thread about it.
    My point is that it’s pointless and rather childish to try and compile lists of who said the worst things to see which side wins. What the lists indicate is that both sides have participated in letting the rhetoric get out of hand and maybe , just maybe we can make some small contribution to preventing some incident or honor little Christina-Taylor Green by making an effort to check our scale it back.

  • MediaiteCensorsSux

    Matthews stirs the pot and incites negative passions as much as any one else he complains about. Also, why is he so OBSESSED with Palin?

  • felixw

    SarahP. said:
    Not really.

    But the thumbs down continue under the new alias. So you don’t gain anything. You can try to change your identity, but the garbage you post immediately gives you away.

  • Grammie

    Cecelia said:
    I think you do very well at handling some of the most vicious and highly personal disparagement that I’ve seen leveled at anyone on the internet.

    That is from a lady who has been the target of more than her fair share.

  • CosmosDan

    Dronetek said:
    She was implying that they were Nazis

    No she wasn’t and you have zero to support your assertion. It doesn’t even make sense.

    In context ,and according to a general understanding of how the English language works, she was saying they were astro turf, and the ridiculousness of bringing swastikas to a health care rally, showed that.

    Turns out she was wrong about them being astro turf , but most people understand that if the protesters are carrying swastikas they are calling YOU and Nazi, not describing themselves.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    hey matt…did they play a different version at 7? i just watched that guy tell of the three people, influenced by beck, and the violence they committed. he said it’s also on his website.

    if this is the same 5 o’clock show, that is pretty irresponsible of you to say mathews just sat there astonished.
    what is this? fox news?

  • Grammie

    ImNotBlue said:
    Let’s see… fundraising by a private political group, versus a long-time sitting Senator.

    They’re not really equal, are they?

    I C&P Sander’s fund raise rhere as well as the Tea Party Express:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/megyn-kelly-upset-over-sen-sanders%E2%80%99-mention-of-arizona-shooting-while-fundraising/#comment-275411

    Just part of Sander’s:

    “What should be understood is that the violence, and threats of violence against Democrats in Arizona, was not limited to Gabrielle Giffords. Raul Grijalva, an old friend of mine and one of the most progressive members in the House, was forced to close his district office this summer when someone shot a bullet through his office window. Another Democratic elected official in Arizona, recently defeated Congressman Harry Mitchell, suspended town meetings in his district because of the threatening phone calls that he received (Mitchell was also in the cross-hairs on the Palin map). And Judge John Roll, who was shot to death at the Giffords event, had received numerous threatening calls and death threats in 2009.

    In light of all of this violence – both actual and threatened – is Arizona a state in which people who are not Republicans are able to participate freely and fully in the democratic process? Have right-wing reactionaries, through threats and acts of violence, intimidated people with different points of view from expressing their political positions?”

  • CosmosDan

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The winner of the most cretinous statement of 2011 — and the list is now closed, so please hold your submissions — is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews,

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    http://www.anncoulter.com/

    Don’t worry Ann. There’s plenty of 2011 left for you to win that title. How many years in a row will it make?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lonnie-Mask/100000161649592 Lonnie Mask

    “In a discussion about toning down the rhetoric on both sides, it seems as if the founder of Media Matters and Ron Reagan may have missed the memo.”

    Because, as we know, pointing out that someone is encouraging violence is the same as encouraging it.

  • Latin2

    David Brock has been behind THREE unsuccessful assassination attempts;

    Glenn Beck

    Bill O’Reilly

    and Rush Limbaugh

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    allright…please forgive my previous post.

  • ChrisNH

    Libs, desperate to do anything to divert attention from their own failed ideologies, trot out narratives & templates that themselves fail any test of reason. It’s an awful time to be a Lib, but I quite like it. That whole ‘Talk Radio & Fox News is eeeee-vil’ template? Blasted to smithereens this afternoon. Krugman has just GOT to be on a ledge now. God, I hope.

  • George C

    Facebook User said:
    Take that!

    Yeah , that’s a shame . LOL

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Okay, so if there was any doubt as to what’s really going on here, the left is trying to provoke a civil war. We all know it’s coming, we’ve known this for fifty years. After November, they realized that their chance at peaceful takeover had come and gone, they know what it’s down to, and they’re moving. The hate speech from the left since this episode presented itself to them for political purposes have been truly astounding. The hateful rhetoric from this clip alone outdoes anything the right could even dream of.

  • hanoisteve

    See 2012: Montel Williams and radio shows from 1994 is all you got? How about the crazy man who shot up the church and killed two because he wanted to kill the 100 liberals in Bernie Goldberg’s book and just loved GB. all the lies and bullshit that comes from the Teabaggers these days is criminal.

  • hanoisteve

    ChrisNH said:
    Libs, desperate to do anything to divert attention from their own failed ideologies.

    Who was in charge when the economy crashed 2008? talk about failed ideologies.

  • sticks

    hanoisteve said:
    See 2012: Montel Williams and radio shows from 1994 is all you got? How about the crazy man who shot up the church and killed two because he wanted to kill the 100 liberals in Bernie Goldberg’s book and just loved GB. all the lies and bullshit that comes from the Teabaggers these days is criminal.

    Uh huh, and all the stupid chit you just said is CRIMINAL !!!

  • Grammie

    Judge Mental said:
    Hmmm

    It does make one wonder, doesn’t it?

  • The Tea Weasel

    ChinaCat said:
    Ron Reagan????? Didn’t his father get shot by someone who was influenced by HOLLYWOOD!!! By MOVIES!!! By Jodie Foster!!!! Funny how the left seems to forget that. For the record, I didn’t blame Hollywood then, and I don’t blame Palin, Beck, et al now.

    The distinction probably escapes you, but Hinckley shot at Reagan to try and get Jodie’s attentions,,,

    In other news, Obama’s approval rating is up 6 points even before this happened….OMG is this buyer’s remorse from the November elections setting in?

  • hanoisteve

    sticks said:
    Uh huh, and all the stupid chit you just said is CRIMINAL !!!

    but true……..here are your teabagger in action:

    March 19-22, 2010—During consideration of health care reform legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New York; and Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting a blog on March 19 that states, “If we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might just make up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.” Several Democratic members receive death threats, including Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will “kill the children of the members who voted YES”; Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who receives a message saying, “You’re dead; we know where you live; we’ll get you”; and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller, “Better hope I don’t run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a gun.” House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH), says he “may be a dead man.”

    http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline

  • the real john t

    ChinaCat said:
    Ron Reagan????? Didn’t his father get shot by someone who was influenced by HOLLYWOOD!!! By MOVIES!!! By Jodie Foster!!!! Funny how the left seems to forget that.

    Funny you are the only RWer to know that. The rest of the RWers were saying David Chapman was obsessed with Foster and shot Reagan. You win the prize for being the most intelligent RWer on here with an IQ of 50.

  • hanoisteve

    A Glen Beck Viewer:
    July 18, 2010—California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams, 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired. Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that he was on his way to San Francisco to “start a revolution” by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams’ mother says her son was angry at “Left-wing politicians” and upset by “the way Congress was railroading through all these Left-wing agenda items.”

    I wonder where he heard about the Tides Foundation and how they are destroying America? I haven’t heard of any one going on a rampage after listing to NPR

  • nieciedo

    The right wing is never going to “tone down the rhetoric.” That is a non-starter that just continues to make liberals look weak.

    Liberals should escalate the rhetoric. We should be denouncing the right wing as the traitors and Nazis who have to be taken out. We should match the conservatives word for word. And we shouldn’t limit ourselves to words. They are armed, so we should arm. We need to match them gun for gun and bullet for bullet.

    Does anyone seriously believe that conservatives would not hesitate to seize power by force of arms and impose their ideology at the point of a gun if they could? Liberals need to man up and get our own guns. The Second Civil War is coming whether we like it or not. We can either be ready for it, or we can dig our own graves and let liberty and justice be killed and buried with us.

  • Just_MC

    Brock listed three occurrences where a crazed assassin targeted a liberal politician or institution, and where evidence later emerged that the assassin may have been a viewer of Beck’s show.

    I wonder what percentage of crazed assassins have actually eaten at McDonalds?

    Ban the reactionary Golden Arches!!

  • Just_MC

    nieciedo said:
    The right wing is never going to “tone down the rhetoric.” That is a non-starter that just continues to make liberals look weak. Liberals should escalate the rhetoric. We should be denouncing the right wing as the traitors and Nazis who have to be taken out. We should match the conservatives word for word. And we shouldn’t limit ourselves to words. They are armed, so we should arm. We need to match them gun for gun and bullet for bullet. Does anyone seriously believe that conservatives would not hesitate to seize power by force of arms and impose their ideology at the point of a gun if they could? Liberals need to man up and get our own guns. The Second Civil War is coming whether we like it or not. We can either be ready for it, or we can dig our own graves and let liberty and justice be killed and buried with us.

    So, you’re FOR the Second Amendment, then?

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    nieciedo said:
    The right wing is never going to “tone down the rhetoric.” That is a non-starter that just continues to make liberals look weak.

    Liberals should escalate the rhetoric. We should be denouncing the right wing as the traitors and Nazis who have to be taken out. We should match the conservatives word for word. And we shouldn’t limit ourselves to words. They are armed, so we should arm. We need to match them gun for gun and bullet for bullet.

    Does anyone seriously believe that conservatives would not hesitate to seize power by force of arms and impose their ideology at the point of a gun if they could? Liberals need to man up and get our own guns. The Second Civil War is coming whether we like it or not. We can either be ready for it, or we can dig our own graves and let liberty and justice be killed and buried with us.

    You are being funny…Right???

  • Patrick Henry

    hanoisteve said:
    Who was in charge when the economy crashed 2008? talk about failed ideologies.

    The Democrat controlled Congress. Any other questions?

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Judge Mental said:
    Hmmm.

    Also Facebookuser is another …

  • Pablo

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Really, Chris? If that’s not a metaphor, who did she shoot?

    A caribou, IIRC. And some poor, defenseless clay pigeons.

  • Pablo

    CosmosDan said:
    Sharon Angle , a major candidate talked openly about 2nd Amendment remedies, and in the summer of 2008 a distraught man killed two people in a church claiming he hated liberals.

    Of course, Angle’s widely misquoted comment came in 2010. That crazy guy was psychic too, huh Dan?

  • timzank

    Patrick Henry said:
    Patrick Henry says:
    January 12, 2011 at 9:06 pm Patrick Henry(Quote)
    1 1
    hanoisteve said:
    Who was in charge when the economy crashed 2008? talk about failed ideologies.
    The Democrat controlled Congress. Any other questions?

    Stepped right into that one didn’t ya dimwit?

  • Pablo

    nieciedo said:
    Does anyone seriously believe that conservatives would not hesitate to seize power by force of arms and impose their ideology at the point of a gun if they could?

    Well, the conservatives already have all of the guns, from what I’m told, so if it was going to happen, it probably would have.

    Liberals need to man up and get our own guns. The Second Civil War is coming whether we like it or not. We can either be ready for it, or we can dig our own graves and let liberty and justice be killed and buried with us.

    That whole thing is silly, but none so much as the last part. Good luck with that.

  • timzank

    Pablo said:
    Of course, Angle’s widely misquoted comment came in 2010. That crazy guy was psychic too, huh Dan?

    Ya gotta give ‘em credit for balls, just making it up as they go along Pablo, it’s fricking hilarious.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    It’s pretty clear from what I just witnessed of this memorial from Tuscon, that the progressives / liberals there are glad that a bunch of people died, so that they have a chance to act like they’re at a rock concert and cheer and yell at the chance to see their god in person. Obama. Most pathetic and disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very, very, long time.

  • Pablo

    hanoisteve said:
    I wonder where he heard about the Tides Foundation and how they are destroying America?

    I wonder if he heard anything that isn’t true. Otherwise, it seems the truth was his problem with Tides.

    I haven’t heard of any one going on a rampage after listing to NPR

    Williams, a multiple time loser, never quite made it to rampage. But this lefty assclown did.

  • Pablo

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    It’s pretty clear from what I just witnessed of this memorial from Tuscon, that the progressives / liberals there are glad that a bunch of people died, so that they have a chance to act like they’re at a rock concert and cheer and yell at the chance to see their god in person. Obama. Most pathetic and disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very, very, long time.

    They branded it and everything. That was the most excited memorial since the Wellstone funeral.

    Obama was pretty good. The rest was disturbing.

  • timzank

    Pablo said:
    They branded it and everything. That was the most excited memorial since the Wellstone funeral. Obama was pretty good. The rest was disturbing.

    Selling T-shirts, Hot Dogs & Pepsi’s!

  • Alz

    Pablo said:
    They branded it and everything. That was the most excited memorial since the Wellstone funeral.

    Obama was pretty good. The rest was disturbing.

    Wellstone: that’s what I was thinking. The branding is so disturbing too.

  • the real john t

    timzank said:
    Selling T-shirts, Hot Dogs & Pepsi’s!

    Where did you see them doing that? That’s the trouble with you RW scumbags. You just pull shit out of your ass and fling it around.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    the real john t said:
    You just pull shit out of your ass and fling it around.

    Westlake’s here?

  • George C

    Pablo said:
    They branded it and everything. That was the most excited memorial since the Wellstone funeral.

    “But tonight at the memorial for the Tucson massacre victims, it will be a sea of blue as the White House unveils the “Together We Thrive” logo and slogan. ”

    Never let a what go to what ?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    The question, Mr. Pap, is Did it live up to Mark Penn’s expectations?

  • WildMan

    I am getting tired of this wacko, left wing agenda being shoved on anyone who dares turn on PMSnbc. They have become a hate factory that goes on all day and night starting with that goofball Joe in the mornings and ending with the Socialist Larry O’Donnell. But, the real hatred comes from the likes of Chrissy Matthews, Edith Schultz, Keithy Olbermann and now that phony journalist Andrea Mitchell who is older than Mathusla (sp?). LSDnbc no longer has any credibility. If you want news you can get it on FOX News and CNN to a lesser degree. But, PMSnbc is all about hatred, anger, lies, half truths and just plain garbage. Hopefully with Comcast taking over things will change at LSDnbc and they’ll fire at least Chrissy, Edith, and Keithy and get some good, hard news journalist to take their place..

  • david r

    Harry Flashman said:
    Talk about blood libel.

    If I were Beck I’d have some very serious, very mean, flesh eating lawyers rap-tap-tappin’ on that little jerk’s door. That was a very serious, pointed, and public accusation.

    I’d sue this guy into the next dimension.

    With some good Jewish lawyers.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The question, Mr. Pap, is Did it live up to Mark Penn’s expectations?

    Actually, I believe that those people who don’t follow these things and who may have begun to be persuaded by the left’s hate rhetoric over the last few days, those people can’t have seen this (shown on every channel known to man) and not have been scratching their heads, thinking, “WTF just happened? I thought this was a memorial for the victims of a mass murderer, not an Obama pep rally.”

    There’s no way anyone outside of brain dead college leftists could have watched this display and not begin to realize what’s going on here.

  • jo hoochie

    felixw said:
    This is worth repeating.

    Yes it is and I’m doing a copy and paste to use in the near future! And the liberals think we are the mean ones…….HA

  • wf82

    I’ve been surprised recently at how stridently partisan Chris Matthews has become. Last night, he challenged (and aggressively interrupted) a tea party leader who suggested that assassinations of American political figures were rare. Fair enough, I guess. But tonight someone asserts that a conservative talking head is “responsible” for three assassination attempts, and he remains silent — implicitly agreeing with such a ridiculous statement? Unreal.

  • jo hoochie

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    It’s pretty clear from what I just witnessed of this memorial from Tuscon, that the progressives / liberals there are glad that a bunch of people died, so that they have a chance to act like they’re at a rock concert and cheer and yell at the chance to see their god in person. Obama. Most pathetic and disturbing thing I’ve seen in a very, very, long time.

    It was like a bunch of elementary school kids that don’t know how to act when they go out.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Gee, I thought Brock would be in line at the Army recruitment center by now. I hear that all the gays have been just lusting to get in now that DADT has been overturned. I am going to take my camera over there to get some video of the line up trying to enlist.

  • The Tea Weasel

    Sounds like someone is just a little bit homophobic

  • Sean68

    It’s nice to see Matthews’ show still showcases a wide varience of opinion.

  • Sean68

    Sean68 said:
    It’s nice to see Matthews’ show still showcases a wide varience of opinion.

    Yes, I know: make that: variance.

  • CosmosDan

    Pablo said:
    Of course, Angle’s widely misquoted comment came in 2010. That crazy guy was psychic too, huh Dan?

    I’m not sure what point your making.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    David Brock= Fairy Tales

  • ChrisNH

    hanoisteve said:
    Who was in charge when the economy crashed 2008? talk about failed ideologies.

    Libs were in charge, small child. In the names of Nancy Pelosi and Hairy Reed. Legislation gets made and passed through Congress, Lib child. Libs were in charge since 2007. I know you don’t really want to pay attention to the ‘small fact’ that Libs (radical Leftists, really) held sway over Congress since the 2006 elections. But that’s why you’re in a rabid state right now with nothing going well for ‘Your Team.’ I quite like it!

  • The Real Royal King

    Interesting. Only three (3)? I should have thought it many more.

  • The Real Royal King

    Grammie said:
    Cecelia said:
    I think you do very well at handling some of the most vicious and highly personal disparagement that I’ve seen leveled at anyone on the internet.

    That is from a lady who has been the target of more than her fair share.

    I noticed that Jeff Merrill made a couple of posts before fleeing again the other day. You should try to bring him back and have a Kox and Koldys family reunion. Reminisce about the old times when everyone was after you and about today when everyone is after you.

  • BatBoy

    ChrisNH said:
    But that’s why you’re in a rabid state right now with nothing going well for ‘Your Team.’ I quite like it!

    They get their education from U of MSNBC!

    I swear, if there was no FOX, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh that entire network would not exist.

    One of the good things about attending U of MSNBC is that there are NO BOOKS to buy.

    They just create stories on what they believe are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (FOX, Sarah, Glenn & Rush). When they find something good about written about the horsemen, U of MSNBC will change it and make it evil.

    Such creative writers they have.

    By the Way…Morning Joe and crew have a “full court press” and going after Sarah this morning. I guess they did not get the White House memo!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    I just love reading comments from reactionaries here rationalizing Beck’s wreckless, irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric that has lead to three, THREE, attempted killings last year.

    BatBoy says:
    “I swear, if there was no FOX, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh that entire network would not exist.”

    Perhaps you’re right because there would not be a need to counter the lies, spin and flat out far-right propaganda that is the corruption of Fox “News.”

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    GBR = the reason Glenn Beck has to spend one million dollars a year on personal security.

  • Cecelia

    The Real Royal King said:
    Reminisce about the old times when everyone was after you and about today when everyone is after you.

    Well, since you doled out shockingly personal insults on Olbermann Watch and since you do it here (albeit topping your record as regards Michelle), that would only make sense.

    But no, not “everyone” is after us. Just you and the myriad of sockpuppets that you employ on blogboards.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    GlennBeckReview said:
    I just love reading comments from reactionaries here rationalizing Beck’s wreckless, irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric that has lead to three, THREE, attempted killings last year. BatBoy says:“I swear, if there was no FOX, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh that entire network would not exist.” Perhaps you’re right because there would not be a need to counter the lies, spin and flat out far-right propaganda that is the corruption of Fox “News.”

    Batboy, imagine how empty Bombshell’s head would be.
    Uh, wait a minute…lol

  • kvon

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    David Brock= Fairy Tales

    Wow, I think you totally disproved him with your witty comment. It’s amazing to see a genuine wordsmith such as yourself at work.

  • Just_MC

    The people claiming we should all be civil are largely being disingenuous.

    Those simply appealing for calm and civility are fine.

    But those claiming others have some responsibility for the murders, that some have blood on their hands, etc, are disingenous. They are airing their accusations of guilt for all the nutjobs in the world to see. If someone were to attempt to avenge Giffords, by their own logic they would be responsible. In fact, they would be more responsible.

    But don’t expect they would ever admit it.

    These people are full of

  • VoiceofReason

    hanoisteve said:
    Who was in charge when the economy crashed 2008? talk about failed ideologies.

    Democrats ran Congress and every single solitary spending issue in American ploitics begins with Congress.

    Was Bush complicit because he didn’t veto their nonsense? I guess to an extent. He claimed to go along because he felt their take over of Congress in January of ’07 was the will of the people and he didn’t want to throw out their mandate with the stroke of a pen.

    But I won’t wallow with you in the mud of failed ideologies…….

  • VoiceofReason

    hanoisteve said:
    A Glen Beck Viewer:July 18, 2010—California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams, 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired. Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that he was on his way to San Francisco to “start a revolution” by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams’ mother says her son was angry at “Left-wing politicians” and upset by “the way Congress was railroading through all these Left-wing agenda items.” I wonder where he heard about the Tides Foundation and how they are destroying America? I haven’t heard of any one going on a rampage after listing to NPR

    That’s because nobody listens to NPR.

    If anybody did they’d go on a bloody rampage of ripping their ears off and gouging 16 penny nails in the holes.

  • writer

    Dammit! We never bothered to ask Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer what they watched on TV. Oh, well. A little late now.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Seeing 2012 From My Window says:
    “GBR = the reason Glenn Beck has to spend one million dollars a year on personal security.”

    Another trite failure from a right-winger. The left is not nearly as violent as the right is.

    I have made my position on violence clear from nearly the beginning of my efforts to expose Beck as a fraud, liar and hypocrite. “The crucial agreement is to avoid violent conflict over differences.” You claim is just a baseless lie, something we’ve come to expect from people who believe the liar, Glenn Beck.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Cecelia says:
    “I think you do very well at handling some of the most vicious and highly personal disparagement that I’ve seen leveled at anyone on the internet.”

    It’s amazing how deluded some on the right are. In case you missed it, she attacked me personally, not my words, me personally.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    “David Brock= Fairy Tales”

    kvon says:
    “Wow, I think you totally disproved him with your witty comment. It’s amazing to see a genuine wordsmith such as yourself at work.”

    These reactionary supporters of Beck are dealing with this information by ignoring and sublimating the facts about Beck. See, if Beck tells his gullible sheep, like Probably Wrong, that Media Matters smears him, they, the ignorant of Beck routine lying, believe Beck.

    So many on the right think that the criticism of Beck is his ideology (whatever that is. Beck himself is confused and confusing on that point). I respect honest reactionaries like Rep. Paul and Pat Buchanan because they are honest and principled. I don’t agree with them, but at least they can be taken seriously and debated.

    Beck, on the other hand, is a habitual liar and often takes a dump on his own stated principles. He’s a self-described rodeo clown who no one in their right mind would believe, much less follow. Sooner of later, his minions and deluded followers will wake up and smell the feces.

  • Hugo Daun

    BFD said:
    I’m pretty sure that with 3 more assassination attempts Glenn wins a free Domino’s Pizza.

    Halfway there, Glenn.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    From Thom Hartmann:
    “When you listen to people like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and the rest of the gang – it’s easy to see – these men and women are guilty of something called stochastic terrorism. That is – the use of mass communication like radio or television to encourage individuals to commit random lone acts of violence. It’s what Glenn Beck was guilty of when he encouraged Byron Williams to attempt to massacre members of the Tides foundation and ACLU. It’s what Bill O’ Reilly was guilty of when he shouted “Tiller the baby killer” a dozen times on his show – and then someone killed Dr. George Tiller. And it could be what all these talking heads are guilty of when Jared Lee Loughner took his semi-automatic pistol to a local Safeway grocery store in Tucson on Saturday and attacked his hated “big government” by trying to assassinate a Congresswoman. We are living in a volatile and violent nation today – and if we want to emerge from it – we need to recognize the damage certain people on the Right are doing. They are profiting off their own unique form of terrorism.”

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    ImNotBlue, ProbablyWRONG, writer, Pablo, Voice of Insanity, Mr.Papshmer, Seeing 2012 for my Padded Cell, et al: you attack me for writing the same things other claim on here. You hate me though, because I’m committed to exposing this fraud AND I HAVE HIS LIES AND HYPOCRISIES DOCUMENTED!

    CarmanK, Vietnameravet, Troll Juice, Paul Westlake, and JamesA1102 understand that Beck has fooled you gullible suckers and sold you gallon upon gallon of snake oil.

    With Beck, it’s not about his reactionary politics. It’s about his lies, hypocrisy, lack of qualifications for his job (he’s a fake), his vitriolic, hateful and violent rhetoric and his self-righteous arrogance about his sheer ignorance. Persuasive, convincing and captivating, Beck has you at the tips of his puppet strings.

    ImNotBlue, ProbablyWRONG, writer, Pablo, Voice of Insanity, Mr.Papshmer, Seeing 2012 for my Padded Cell, et al: let us know when you decide to stop letting Beck ordering you around and wiping his ass with your Gadsen flags.

  • CAconservative

    These people are supposedly, adults? This trash sounds more like a school yard debate.
    The GlennBeckReview says, he’s exposing his lies. What lies, Mr.GBR? And, what the hell is a “Gadsen flag”?

  • X-3

    SarahP. said:
    Congrats, you are exceptional at cutting and pasting. Maybe you can land a job flipping burgers – probably not.

    You seem to be exceptional at denying dual standards. Maybe you can find work as a test dummy….Oh, wait, that’s what you are.

  • X-3

    CAconservative said:
    The GlennBeckReview says, he’s exposing his lies.

    Now that would be a bombshell.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    X-3 says:
    “Now that would be a bombshell.”

    You’re kidding, right? Hell, sock puppet, that is routine. Beck lies that often! It’s so weird: when my wife listens to Beck, she gets “an overwhelming feeling of evil.” I asked her why, and she said that she could tell that he is a liar by HOW he speaks.

    I’m more empirical and philosophically trained. Beck lies and we prove this day after day. I have a long list of posts detailing Beck’s false claims, and I don’t post nearly all the ones I know about. I have a large unused file detailing many of Beck’s lies.

    Beck is on the wrong side of history again, but — not surprising — he was on the side of democracy in the Middle East in support of Bush’s war of choice against Iraq. He hasn’t changed his mind: Glenn Beck is a hypocrite through and through. I prove this with facts and logic over and over again. And this begs the question: why does Beck has such a large following?

    Yes, he’s persuasive and cunning and gifted. He’s also highly skilled at manipulating his viewers; Beck is a master manipulator. Why else would more of his followers not hear the lies I could detect before starting The Glenn Beck Review. He programs his viewers to dismiss any and all criticism of him, no matter how factual and unbiased, no matter how honest. This has led me to a recent re-evaluation of his intellect as of late. He’s still ignorant about the world, but he’s very bright, clever, gifted, persuasive and intelligent. It’s taken a while to see that, but the link about his manipulation skills forced me into rethinking just how smart he is.

    It’s still all about Glenn Beck. His motivations, according to Beck’s biographer, Alex Zaitchik, “are, and have always been, money and fame. If Beck has a true religion, it’s not Patriotism. It’s not Mormonism. It’s cross-platform self-marketing.” Those who do not grasp this about him, can not hear his lies or hypocrisies, do not recognize that this uneducated, ignorant man is a charlatan and yellow propagandist, are victims more than they are supporters. They are to be pitied, not respected.

  • JazzyJim

    Jackyboy said:
    Oh we can just make stuff up on national television now? Oh cool.

    That’s all Fox is. But you wouldn’t know it. You ride dinosaurs and think the earth is flat.

  • JazzyJim

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Oh and the leader of the Tuscon Tea Party is also receiving death threats.

    From the Teabaggers!! LOL.

  • JazzyJim

    tigerprez said:
    Yeah, and the Beatles caused Charles Manson to have his followers kill all those people.

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell who is more delusional: the psychos who attack people or the liberals who see anyone who disagrees with them as the cause of that violence.

    To think these people sit in your prayer meetings with you. How easily confused you all are. Sad.

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