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About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric
About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric
Media | Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:43:54 pm PDT Michael A. Cohen has a piece in Politico today about the over-the-top irresponsible extremism and conspiracy theories promulgated by weeping Glenn Beck: Extremist rhetoric won t rebuild GOP . Watching Fox News new sensation Glenn Beck is not for the ...
Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP
politico.com — In an Ideas piece, Cohen says that catering to the far right is a cheap way to score political points. (more) Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP
Glenn Beck -- "I'm President Obama" -- douses actor with gas-can contents, holds up lit match
crooksandliars.com — You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! ... (more) Glenn Beck -- "I'm President Obama" -- douses actor with ...
Boehlert: Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media
mediamatters.org — After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an AK-47 ... (more) Boehlert: Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News'  ...
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Beware the Knife in the Ribs, Conservatives.
The Sundries ShackCharles Johnson’s criticisms would carry some weight if they were based on a solid foundation but they aren’t so they don’t. Maybe he needs to read my blog before he jumps on the conservabash bandwagon with his new leftist buddy. Or at least treat the word of a Democratic apparatchik with some skepticism instead of reflexively harrumphing over the takeover of the Republican boys’ club by the barbarian hordes. I do find his impulse to dash off a dismissive post instead of investigating Cohen’s claims interesting. It makes me wonder if he’s really interested in going ...

Brainster's Blog — Minor Blog Agrees With Me On Beck That tiny blog called Little Green Footballs: He’s right. This turn toward the extreme right on the part of Fox News is troubling, and will achieve nothing in the long run except further marginalization of the GOP—unless people start behaving like adults instead of angry kids throwing tantrums and ranting about conspiracies and revolution. ...

Hopping to Crazyland
The Mahablog — ... Johnson actually said something sensible, which of course is beyond the pale for a wingnut. Commenting on a Politico piece called “ ...

As their power spirals downward, the Right's rhetoric gets nuttier and nastier
Crooks and Liars — ... legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?" Of course, the right-wingers at Free Republic are way ahead of Erickson as they fantasize about Obama's assassination: "And let's face it: all the speculation about Obama being the actual Antichrist will either be confirmed or denied if someone gets off a lucky shot at the SOB." Michael Cohen at Politico has noticed there's a problem for Republicans with this kind of rhetoric -- and even Little Green Footballs is agreeing. John Delicath at MediaMattersAction has more ...

I truly can't believe I'm seeing this.
Blah3 Feed — ... that I posted here the other day - Johnson is dead-on in his assessment of Beck as a fear-mongering toad (see here and ...

A voice in the wilderness
Political Animal — ... , go over well with some of Johnson's fellow conservative bloggers. (John added, "The problem for the right is not Charles Johnson, but all the crazy people in the party.") But what's especially interesting is that LGF has had a variety of similar items of late. Earlier this week, Johnson wrote , "This turn toward the extreme right on the part of Fox News is troubling, and will achieve nothing in the long run except further marginalization of the GOP -- unless people start behaving like adults instead of angry kids throwing tantrums and ranting about conspiracies and ...

It's the end of the world as we know it
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... to do with “tea parties,” and it was not done at the behest of the Obama administration. It's part of a pattern of posts that I've seen popped up on memeorandum that have left not scandalized but bewildered and utterly confused. I don't know what to make of titles like Horowitz Unloads on Obama Derangement Syndrome , Bush Bowed Too , Romney: Don't Wish for Obama to Fail , To Everything There is a Season and a two-parter about Glenn Beck: About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric and About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2 . ...

Wehner: Glenn Beck Harms the Conservative Movement
Little Green Footballs — Commentary’s Peter Wehner agrees with me: Glenn Beck: Harmful to the Conservative Movement. Also see: About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2 And possibly the craziest show ever to air on Fox News: Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie For even more evidence of how destructive Beck’s influence is, here’s an LGF search that will bring up all our related articles.

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