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That's a deflection, since you are defender of Fox News, what have they told you about it?
That's a deflection, since you are defender of Fox News, what have they told you about it?
That's a deflection, since you are defender of Fox News, what have they told you about it?
Unfortunately, playing glenn beck as a victim to whatever mythos of liberal hate that brands him a terrorist is not sufficient. Types of shows like Glenn Beck's are not on television in most other countries, they are seen as seditionist. Glenn beck contributes nothing intellectual to this planet except providing hate and ammunition to fire at liberals and telling the right that their nation is under some sort of fundamentalist attack by their fellow (And less so) americans. The reason people would blame beck is because he basically makes charts of enemies for those who hold the same fundamentalist ideals as him. And when one fox news nut tries to stop the apocalypse or kill the antichrist or stop the communists from taking over... it speaks deeply of the psychological effect of their programming. I have always thought that glenn beck was politically insane and he encourages it in his audience.
I do defend Media Matters and I not ashamed at do so because they are accurate. You'll never see Media Matters publish a video from nut job like Andrew Breitbart and treating like news like Foxnews.com did.And YOU defend Media Matters as "real journalists," and just about everything you post as backup for anything is from them. If you can find anything like similar behavior from me, by all means. But you won't.
I do defend Media Matters and I not ashamed at do so because they are accurate. You'll never see Media Matters publish a video from nut job like Andrew Breitbart and treating like news like Foxnews.com did.
Inciting violence is a crime. Beck's irresponsible and crazy language incites violence among some suggestible people. Now, follow with me, Beck is committing a crime.
The Media Matters link in post #17 was defending Shepard Smith of Fox News. What's your problem with that?From Breitbart specifically? No. But from others. And you'll see hatchet jobs like the ones I exposed in, say, post #17 of this thread.
As this story indicates, I'm not making “crap” up. My city was almost under siege by a mad man who had just been listening to a Beck rant. Glenn Beck's ravings have real life consequences.
The Media Matters link in post #17 was defending Shepard Smith of Fox News. What's your problem with that?
Just as the TV doesn't force anyone to purchase the products they advertise.Glenn Beck didn't cause violence, in fact he condemns it. If someone is violent, that is their fault and their action. They chose to be violent, no one else made that choice for them. Excuses like "he incited violence" or "TV makes kids violent, therefore TV is bad" and things of that nature are foolish. No TV show or politically opinionated person in the media forced someone to do any act of violence.
Just as the TV doesn't force anyone to purchase the products they advertise.
This is the danger of uneducated people (or those with a basic education who lack critical thinking skills) watching Glenn Beck and other fringe-right partisans. They get all worked up about non-existant boogey men - Tides, Acorn, La Raza...
Then some unstable person goes off.
This guy makes a good point--Fox news has become somewhat irresponsible IMO. Doocy, Beck, and Hannity all spew crap from their mouths and many FNC viewers are all too impressionable.
A what point does hyper-partisan rhetoric (from the Left or Right) become inciting violence?
… Can't blame him for selling them their snake oil either.
It's the American way.
Then the American way in your view is fraudulent. Fraud is against the law.
But more important is the failure of conservatives to condemn Beck's violent language makes them accessories before the fact. They are enablers and innocent blood will be on their hands.
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