Rabid lunatic left-wing bloggers have been casting the blame for the killings of three Pennsylvania police officers by Richard Poplawski right where the blame lies – on Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck. When I first heard about this, I thought it was some kind of sick joke, for the following reasons….
Did Beck tell Poplawski to go kill cops ? No.
Did Beck tell anyone to go kill cops ? No.
Does Beck advocate violence against cops ? No.
Does Beck advocate violence against anyone ? No.
But lunatics are undaunted by facts. That's what makes them lunatics. Lunatics act in irrational ways. That's why the lunatic Poplawski murdered three police officers in Pennsylvania, and that's why the lunatic left-wing bloggers think it's Glenn Beck's fault. Here is why the loony left thinks Beck is to blame – one of Poplawski's neighbors said Poplawski was afraid President Obama would take away his guns, Glenn Beck interviewed NRA head Wayne LaPierre about the Obama assault weapon ban/Mexican drug cartels, and Poplawski allegedly saw Beck's program about alleged FEMA internment camps. That's pretty much the loony left's entire case against Beck. The loons say Beck is "inciting violence" (normal people would say Beck is engaging in "free speech").
I wouldn't even be reporting this spew from the lunatic bloggers, because I could care less about their hate-filled nonsense, but the lunatic fringe blogger spew has spilled over into the lunatic fringe mainstream media, namely the Countdown With Keith Olbermann program on MSLSD, er, I mean, MSNBC. Last night, Olbermann named Beck one of his 'worst persons in the world,' and declared that Beck was inciting violence and shared the blame for Poplawski's actions (FYI – Olbermann is obsessed with Fox News, who clobbers Olbermann and MSLSD in the cable news ratings. One or another Fox News host is almost ALWAYS one of Olby's 'worst persons.' It's incredibly transparent and self-serving on Olby's part).
For the sake of argument, let's suspend disbelief and pretend the lunatic left spew has enough credibility to be addressed. I'll address it here:
On Obama banning guns - Obama DOES want to ban assault weapons, just as Beck said on his program. There are also several pieces of gun restriction legislation in Congress at this moment, as I reported myself in a blog article I called 'Democrats And The Second Amendment.' (I guess that makes ME responsible for the cop killings too). Obama's own attorney general, Eric Holder, has said he doesn't believe the 2nd Amendment allows private citizens to bear arms. If the lunatic left wants to know where people get the idea that Obama and the Democrats want to take away their guns, I suggest the lunatic left take a look at OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS.
On Beck interviewing NRA head Wayne LaPierre - It's called the First Amendment, loony left. Get used to it. This is the USA, not Soviet Russia. And there was NO incitement to violence by Beck. That exists only in the fevered imaginations of the loons.
On Beck talking about FEMA internment camps - Beck is DEBUNKING the story about the FEMA camps, you lefty blogger morons. Beck is investigating the claims and finding them to be FALSE. Beck says the government is NOT intending to put Americans in internment camps.
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Beyond the absurd notion that Beck is somehow responsible for the actions of a crazed cop killer, let's take a look at the galactic hypocrisy in which the lunatic left is engaging. These people have the gall to say right-wingers are inciting violence after the lunatic left has engaged in the following (to name only a few examples out of a multitude):
- Called Bush an international criminal, racist, fascist, terrorist, murdering thug for the last 8 years. If somebody assassinated Bush after listening to the loony left, would the loony left be responsible ???
- Openly advocated violence against AIG employees and their families. This wasn't only the loony bloggers. Even House Financial Services head Barney Frank (D-MA) threatened to publish the names and addresses of AIG employees unless they returned their bonuses, so the mob could find them. President Obama himself said Americans should be outraged at AIG. Obama also told the bankers, "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks." An ACORN group led bus tours to the homes of AIG employees, so the mob would know where they lived. If somebody killed bankers or AIG employees, would the loony left, the Democrats, and the President be responsible ?
- Left wing Air America radio ran audios of the simulated shooting of president Bush on more than one occasion. Luckily, since only three people listened to Air America, nobody heard the implied threats against the president. When Glenn Beck does something like THAT, then I'll listen to your complaints, haters.
- Obama's left wing buddy Bill Ayers bombed buildings as a member of the Weathermen.
- Left wing groups like Code Pink routinesly disrupt proceedings, such as the Republican National Convention, sessions of Congress, etc. Left wingers routinely shout down and attack conservative speakers at college campuses and at their homes. Left wing groups like PETA throw blood all over people wearing fur. Left wing environmental groups routinely spike trees, resulting in the maiming and death of lumberjacks. Left wing groups like Al Sharpton's National Action Network have incited riots against store owners, resulting in murder. And if we REALLY want to talk about fomenting violence, the leftist philosophy of Karl Marx was responsible for about 120 million people being killed in the 20th century.
I could give you scores more examples. If the stupid moonbats want to go on a witchhunt looking for people who incite hatred and foment violence, I suggest they go look in the damned mirror.
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Well done King, but let me get this straight. Am I to assume the left wingers actually think its a bad idea to kill cops? I'm just going by what folks like Billy Ayers advocated. Lets not overlook a small step in the right direction for them…
King, you have just thrown so much truth at the lunatic left that poor old Rev hasn't even made his customary first comment.
Too much truth for them to even comment about. The wild eyed foolishness should be coming soon, though and will certainly be looked forward to by me.
No Beck did not tell Poplawski to go kill cops.
No Beck did not tell anyone to go kill cops
No Beck did not advocate violence against cops
No Beck did not advocate violence against anyone
BUT
There is a legal term for what Beck is doing as well as several others on right wing radio. It is called Sedition, a felony crime, and in fact any one of their fan base who goes out and commits a crime ought to be laid at their door step. We have freedom of speech, but if you falsely cry fire in a crowed theateri and a stampede occurs and people are inured and/or killed you are legally culpable either criminally or civilly. It would not bother me one bit to see these people walked to th the nearest jail and charged with treason — sedition.
So…if anyone of the AIG execs is harmed then BHO would have committed a felony crime acording to alchemist. I would like to see him walked to the nearest jail and charged with treason.
Just a hunch but maybe this is really all about Becks soaring ratings and the left trying to silence free speech again.
Is it true that people like, say, Michelle Bachmann and Glenn Beck, have been focusing their words and programs on something they call a "citizen's revolution?" A "resistance."?
Is it true that Beck openly suggests equivalency between Hitler and Obama, complete with pictures and video?
Is it true, as I documented in my blog yesterday, that much is being made by right wing screechers, like Beck, over some gun ban that, in fact, only exists in the screechers heads?
Why does Fox use the word "socialism" or "socialist" or "marxist" or "communist" in describing the Obama administration, more than 20 times per day?
Isn't it true that we now have TWO mass killers, Adkisson and now Poplawski, whose violent ideas were reinforced by the rantings of Fox, Goldberg, and Beck? Or don't you believe Adkisson's letter was real….maybe Poplawski's friends (there were two testimonies) were just lying.
The equivalency you seek simply isn't there. Just as in 1993, conservative nuts, all frenzied-up by the fact of a Democratic President, start arming-up for the Great Epoch Battle Against Liberals which Beck, Limbaugh, and others state over and over is imminent.
Then when a couple of these nuts go ape-sh*t…..Beck, Limbaugh, Fox and others, fall on their flimsy 1st amendment swords to justify their own part in inciting the violence.
Provoking radical-nut apologists to defend the incitement to violence by accusing liberals of threatening free speech….as some are doing here.
alchemist is right.
Let's not get carried away Rev (I think I'm a little late to say that to you, though)…
First off, liberals ARE threatening free speech. They only want free speech when free speech means THEIR speech. When free speech is asking for the proven medical benefits of embryonic stem cell research (there is not a single one ever), the scientific support for man-made global warming (there is no true scientific support in existence), et al, liberals don't want free speech.
Second, when did cop killing become a bad thing in the minds of liberals, who have defended cop killers for decades? When it was politically convenient to blame a conservative talk show host for the actions that cop killer?
I can make a case 100 times a day in an inner-city ghetto somewhere in the U.S. that someone is incited to be a cop killer because of the liberal mantra they repeatedly hear from liberal talk show hosts and our mainstream media that they're being held down by rich white people. That they're only where they are due to the greed of some rich white Republican. That the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, not because of the work invested in their wealth, but because of greedy white Republicans. That all Republican-based tax plans are founded in only tax cuts for the rich in order to hold poor people down and make the rich richer, all because of greed…There is twice as much substance to that claim than any claim I've seen blaming Beck for this occurrence.
Let's not forget that one of the most famous cop killers happens to be close, personal friends with our current president, who studied his practices and political theories. I don't remember any outrage from your side of the mental ward over that one…
Well, to start with, you're wrong about the scientific consensus concerning both embryonic stem cell research and global warming. You may disagree with that consensus. You may require more proof before you accept it as reality…..regardless, the consensus still exists.
What is factual is that the Bush administration purposely withheld scientific conclusions in reports, conclusions that were arrived at using the scientific method. He did that for political reasons, of course, as he sought to please his anti-science constituency.
It's ridiculous to say, and that's why you said it, that liberals embrace cop killers.
But this is 100% Grade A pucky…..
"they repeatedly hear from liberal talk show hosts and our mainstream media that they're being held down by rich white people. That they're only where they are due to the greed of some rich white Republican. That the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, not because of the work invested in their wealth, but because of greedy white Republicans…..There is twice as much substance to that claim than any claim I've seen blaming Beck for this occurrence."
What liberals point out, once again, using a scientific approach, is that in the last 30 years the top 1% has accumulated an exponentially higher amount of the nation's wealth….while working families have been losing wealth, seeing their jobs outsourced, health care and education skyrocketing, 401K's stolen, etc.
And yes, it's true….most of the filthiest-rich are white men.
What liberals, of course, do not do, is incite the working poor to attack these rich white men. Liberals do not tell American workers they are being "held down" by these rich white men so they should rise up revolution-style, they tell them how rich, white men have systematically marginalized labor organizers and eliminated unions, thus keeping wages and benefits low for them. They tell them about the, basically unregulated, money-shuffling racket that allows for an ever widening disparity in wealth ownership. They tell them the facts.
You say the rich are rich because of "the work invested in their wealth". Rich employers get rich from the work of their employees. I suppose there's a few rich people who got there without anyone else working for them, like those who inherit fortunes. Quite a lot of work those inheritors perform. Anyway, it's been recognized for what?….centuries now….that peple get rich off the backs of other people.
You do have one relatively accurate statement, though….
"That all Republican-based tax plans are founded in only tax cuts for the rich in order to hold poor people down and make the rich richer, all because of greed…"
Except for the "hold poor people down" part. You, apparently, don't understand the dynamic of the rich. They don't purposely hold poor people down…..it never even registers in their heads that there are poor people. It's a matter of greed, yes….but indifference as well.
And remind me….when did candidate Obama call for an Ayers-like revolt? I could have missed it….I don't normally miss stuff, you know, that provocative, but I might have.
I'll take that as the Rev does not have any actual evidence but he does have some kind of "consensus"…
If the cop killing had been done by the right kind of person then lefties like sharpton and pals would show up to support the killers.
Is the rev actually the Rev Wright Dice Clay? Now even I luv that guy. He is one hell of an entertainer.
You flippin morons all make me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!! The looney left, the self-righteous neocons accuse each other of spewing hatred back and forth.Why don't you do something about making this a better world.There is 2 sides to every story and the truth is somewhere in the middle.Personally I would have blown Mecca off the map after 911, am I right? Doubt it,just another moron with a right to my own opinion.
Duh King,there are two lies repeated over and over,the Dems are in favor of big government.The biggest budgets have all been by 3 Republican presidents.The so called "liberal media" is a joke. FOX news?? If you read more than your own blog you would realize that every newspaper reflects the political leaning of it's owner/publisher.Big city papers tend to be more liberal and rural papers more conservative to reflect their readers views.What I hate are the people that have to have someone tell them what to think.
thing I loved about Obama getting elected, it's driving the racists nuts!!!!!!!!!!!
so king does this mean that Glenn Beck doesn't want to seced after all? I, for one, am all for Glenn Beck seceding from the Union!
King, as far as being serious about your post, just please tell me you are not holding this guy Beck up as some sort of spokesman for your side? You can't be serious. He's nothing more than a toned down Ann Coulter.
With Rush and Beck leading the conservative movement, the Dems are assured of a long unfettered rule.
I'll state this as eloquently and politically correct as possible. Glenn Beck is a pussy who's fat ass I could kick on my worst day.
Good for you, Tbomb. I'll bet Beck could kick Obama's butt, though.
Looks like I've brought the loons out of the woodwork.
Alchemist, sedition is "the incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority." If I am to accept your reasoning that Beck is engaging in sedition, I must also accept that Obama is engaging in sedition, because the ultimate "lawful authority" is the U.S. Constitution, which includes the 2nd Amendment. Obama would be violating it by banning assault weapons. Anti-war liberals would also be guilty of sedition for a variety of reasons, one being their "incitement of resistance" to the Iraq War, which was legislated into existence by Congress. Of course, I don't accept your argument, because it's utter nonsense. Your argument is the stuff of tyrants.
da truth – My post isn't about support or non-support of Glenn Beck. That is irrelevant. My post is about the rights of all Americans to freely and openly disagree with their government. This is a right liberals understood perfectly when Bush was in office (they called it 'speaking truth to power' then), but they are quickly forgetting about it now that THEIR side has the power. Suddenly, liberals (a misnomer if I ever heard one), are turning into statist stooges who want to eliminate dissent.
Markt,
Bush was definitely a big spender. You'll get no argument from me there. I've written about that extensively.
But Obama is a much bigger spender, and he's a Democrat. Also, the largest budgets under Bush by far were the last two, when Democrats controlled Congress. Congress has the final word on the budget, not the President.
Rev,
Your ability to ignore all facts you don't want to hear is limitless.
And you are advocating the elimination of free speech and dissent. You've lost whatever marbles you had to start with.
Duh King,if you go back to Nixon count how many people in the administrations have gone to prison Republican vs. Democrat? How could anyone defend Bush and his cabal over secretsy and abuse of power. 8 years of republican control almost destroyed our country.Who do you think sold Saddam his chemical weapons?Bush Sr. I personally think the Democrats are inept and the Republicans are criminal. I would be ashamed to call myself either one.As for being a loon I'd debate your dumb ass one on one any day.
mthomas,
What do any of your comments have to do with this post ??? Nothing.
If you want to debate, it would help if you could actually stay on topic.
Here's your first clue – I wasn't defending Bush, and this post has nothing to do with Bush.
T-bomb….I'll pay money to see you do it. Just let me know.
Something that I think is interesting here….since we're talking Glenn Beck.
Beck left CNN. Couldn't, apparently, draw any viewers there. He goes to Fox, and the Fox audiences just love him. Weren't Fox viewers the least informed about stuff in an NPR poll?
I think this says something about Fox and it's viewers.
Duh King aren't you part of the liberal media?You never responded to that?
Rev>Weren't Fox viewers the least informed about stuff in an NPR poll?
LOLOLOLOL duh… stuff that wasn't liberal
STAYING ON TOPIC WHY WOULD ANYONE DEBATE ABOUT GLENN BECK OR ANYONE @ FOX SO CALLED NEWS?
Mthomas, Why the opposition for diverse opinions? We STILL have freedom of speech for now.
I have a right to my opinion that the far left and the far right are ruining this country, so I like to tweak morons.
As for anyone thinking I'm a liberal ,I would make it illegal to employ any illegal .Take away the jobs they'll all go back to Mexico on their own.It was the Republicans that wanted cheap labor. It was the Democrats that sold out the rust belt with NAFTA.As for the Iraq War ,Iran has always been our biggest threat.If you mess with our country then I say blow the sh*t out of them.I would kill as many pirates in Somalia as it takes to stop them.I also believe in guns, I have them,but I don't believe in assault weapons.I think both Clintons are a waste and FOX so called news should be registered as an arm of the Republican Party.Were at war and you clowns wanna debate about GB ?
I think Ted Kennedy,Ann Coulter,Michael Moore,Bill O'Reilly,Barney Frank,Rush Limberger,Al Franken,Sean Hannity,Nancy Pelosi, Ted Stevens,Glenn Beck,and DUH King ARE ALL AN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rev,
Are you "inciting violence" against Glenn Beck ?
Oh my. Better get back on your meds.
Mthomas,
No, I'm not part of the liberal media. I'm part of the libertarian media, microscopic as it is.
FYI – My post wasn't really about agreeing or disagreeing with Glenn Beck. Sometimes I agree with him and other times I don't. That is immaterial. This post was about hypocritical lunatics who want to suppress free speech to quiet those who disagree with them. I call that unamerican. How about you ?
How about you name all the so called liberal media and then I'll name all the conservative media.Bet our lists will be about equal.
You all like free speech unless it's something a liberal says
Mike,
I'm glad you admit there is a liberal media. Many don't even admit that much.
Let's start with television.
Liberal media – NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, HBO, ABC (with a couple exceptions – Tapper and Stossel).
Next, movies – Hollywood is at least 95% liberal. I don't think I've ever seen a Hollywood movie about politics that doesn't make the conservative the bad guy.
Newspapers – 90% liberal, led by the New York Times and the Associated Press, whose stories are circulated throughout the rest of the papers in the country.
Radio – I'll give you that one. Conservatives control radio (which is why the only media you ever hear about Dems wanting to 'fix' is radio).
Internet – I'll call this a tie. At least you can find both sides of the story on the internet, even if you do have to wade through some distortion.