Beck started by noting that his viewers should watch elected officials "like a hawk," so that policymakers can "feel your burning gaze."And while Beck is right here and deserves credit for doing the responsible thing, it doesn't excuse the fever-bright insanity that has shown up on his TV and radio shows."But here's the thing I'm concerned about," Beck said. "Your interaction with them needs to be respectful, polite, forceful, and peaceful. I've been warning Congress for a couple of years, and the time has come and passed for them to be able to learn from this. I've been telling them, 'You have to listen to the people,' or they'll be in real big trouble. Well, now let me give the warning to you. If anybody thinks it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again. It would be destroy the republic. I feel it with everything in me."
Beck said the electorate is, from his perspective, "starting to wake up," but "one lunatic, like Timothy McVeigh, could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for." As Beck put it, a McVeigh-like lunatic would become a p.r. problem, exploited by politicians and the media, making it harder for those who share his worldview.
"There is no excuse for violence," the host said. Only a "crazy person" picks up a gun to register political protest. He concluded, "If you ever hear someone talking about, or thinking about, turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them. The only way to save our republic is to remain peaceful. Forceful, but peaceful."
One right thing doesn't begin to excuse the multitude of wrongs. But whatever helps Glennsanity sleep at night. He's dumped gallon after gallon of gasoline on the bonfire, and now he's letting us know that playing with fire is bad as a public service message to assuage his guilt. It doesn't put the fire out.
But if even Glennsanity can see that this whole thing has gotten out of control and feels the need to apologize for his own hatemongering, and to try to tamp down any violence, then isn't that a tacit admission that Glenn has gone just a bit over the line?
If you're really worried about violence there Glenn, then stop winding up the Pretty Hate Machine every night.
Beck is NOT assuaging his conscience. If this is helping him sleep at night, it's because he thinks he has put enough distance between himself and the truly violent wing of his little club when the violence inevitably happens. Or at least, put enough distance between his EMPLOYER and said violent wing.
ReplyDeleteIf Glenn Beck was really sorry and worried about violence, he'd stop stirring it up with the constant bullshit he spits out.
But he won't. He knows what will happen if he doesn't feed the base. He knows where his check comes from.
Until he fucking apologizes and then subsequently stops going on about complete fucking bullshit and lies designed to get the right-wing riled up and ready to shoot some libruls, I'll consider this just another piece of bullshit from a bullshitter, designed to make his hands look clean when the bullshit inevitbally hits the fan.
Just another insane shit-stirrer trying to incite violence. I wonder, who else could I think of that does so...