Beck in June: Speaker Pelosi Is ‘Going to Have to Shoot [Journalists, Democratic Members of Congress] in the Head’
Transcript of complete segment from Glenn Beck’s show on the Republican Party’s Fox network in June:
Day: January 21, 2011
Beck Inciting Violent Threats Against 78-Year-Old Professor, Frances Fox Piven
the CCR asks that Ailes distinguish between First Amendment rights, of which they are “vigorous defenders” and an “intentional repetition of provocative, incendiary, emotional misinformation and falsehoods [that place that person] in actual physical danger of a violent response.”
Beginning in September of 2010, Glenn Beck started branding Piven, a distinguished professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, as an “enemy of the Constitution.” Piven, well known for advocating for the organizational rights of the poor and encouraging voter registration, has since received threatening phone calls and letters, and has become the subject of many death threats left open to the public on Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze.”
No Honeymoon for GOP-Tea Partyites in Congress
Hey, when I’m wrong, I’m wrong. And I was wrong late last year when I predicted that Pres. Obama’s poll numbers would be tanking into the 30s in mid-January — so, now — primarily because he made a deal with Republican, who were threatening hissy fits if he did not agree to extend tax breaks for their billionaire sponsors.
The GOP’s fav/unfav has gone from a net positive in December (38 percent-37 percent) to a net negative now (34 percent-40 percent). – NBC/GOP-WSJ poll
The way it looked then was that hordes of liberals and fiscally responsible Democrats would abandon the president over the deal, that whatever he might gain in support from moderates and swing voters, he’d lose from his base, and then some.
But the White House followed up its caving on the tax cuts with other successes, particularly the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
