Posted on 01/22/2011 5:38:16 AM PST by reaganaut1
On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangering her life.
Frances Fox Piven, a City University of New York professor, has been a primary character in Mr. Becks warnings about a progressive take-down of America. Ms. Piven, Mr. Beck says, is responsible for a plan to intentionally collapse our economic system.
Her name has become a kind of shorthand for enemy on Mr. Becks Fox News Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.
Never mind that Ms. Pivens radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler. Anonymous visitors to his Web site have called for her death, and some, she said, have contacted her directly via e-mail.
In response, a liberal nonprofit group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote to the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, on Thursday to ask him to put a stop to Mr. Becks false accusations about Ms. Piven.
Mr. Beck is putting Professor Piven in actual physical danger of a violent response, the group wrote.
Fox News disagrees. Joel Cheatwood, a senior vice president, said Friday that Mr. Beck would not be ordered to stop talking about Ms. Piven on television. He said Mr. Beck had quoted her accurately and had never threatened her.
The Glenn Beck Program, probably above and beyond any on television, has denounced violence repeatedly, Mr. Cheatwood said.
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So in her twisted mind, the SEIU never gets violent, but the Tea Partiers always do? Riiiiiight !!
Dropped by Discover The Networks org to re-read about the Cloward/Piven Strategy to overwhelm the systems, and found it had been scrubbed! But - the WayBack Machine came to the rescue:
Why is DTN they scrubbing valid data? Got Rinos in the briar patch?? Shades of Pogo - "We has met the enemy, and it is us!"
I don’t think he is drinking, but he does have an addictive personality and Mormonism fosters that (feelings over facts).
It may not be a chemical addiction at all, or it could be prescription, more likely IMO, he is addicted to the fame and the attention and the ‘feelings’ of Mormonism.
And I totally agree with Grey about the White Horse prophecy and think that Beck and Romeny both think they are the ‘saviors’.
I haven’t heard that Romney believes in it. Orrin Hatch says that he does.
But I’m waiting for the upcoming primary season when Beck will inevitably come out for Romney-—great-great grandson of Smith’s “apostle” Parley Pratt.
Watching/hearing Beck rationalize that ought to be something to behold.
That is certainly an inaccurate statement regarding Jews.
One should not entertain the notion that the King Moshiach must work miracles and wonders, bring about new phenomena within the world, resurrect the dead, or perform other similar deeds. This is [definitely] not true.
[A proof can be brought from the fact that] that Rabbi Akiva, one of the greatest Sages of the Mishnah, was one of the supporters of King Ben Koziva, and would describe him as the King Moshiach. He and all the Sages of his generation considered him to be the King Moshiach until he was killed because of [his] sins. Once he was killed, they realized that he was not [the Moshiach]. The Sages did not ask him for any signs or wonders.
Good question, but I doubt it.
I never watched ALL of Beck's shows on Fox, but perhaps 80%+ of them and I never, not once, felt he was pushing a Mormon agenda.
How and why (self-styled informed and intelligent) small people can manufacture stuff out of nothing continues to baffle me.
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