"Glenn Beck's attacks on the Tides Foundation are being linked to a heavily-armed man's attempt to assassinate the progressive organization's employees. Rhetoric has consequences, critics say...
...Byron Williams has said in jailhouse interviews that he wanted to “start a revolution...”
He says Beck was not the direct cause of his turning violent...
...“I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there, and it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind,” Mr. Williams said from his jail cell...
The implication of violence in political speech is as old as when lawmakers beat each other with canes on the floor of the House of Representatives, and it’s bipartisan.
GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle in Nevada has suggested that there might have to be armed “Second Amendment remedies” for a Congress controlled by Democrats.
...President Obama warned that a Republican takeover of Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” for the next two years.
At a Democratic fundraiser in Minnesota, Vice President Joe Biden said, “If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.”
But he quickly added, “To the press, that's a figure of speech.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1016/Did-Glenn-Beck-s-rhetoric-inspire-violence
...Byron Williams has said in jailhouse interviews that he wanted to “start a revolution...”
He says Beck was not the direct cause of his turning violent...
...“I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there, and it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind,” Mr. Williams said from his jail cell...
The implication of violence in political speech is as old as when lawmakers beat each other with canes on the floor of the House of Representatives, and it’s bipartisan.
GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle in Nevada has suggested that there might have to be armed “Second Amendment remedies” for a Congress controlled by Democrats.
...President Obama warned that a Republican takeover of Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” for the next two years.
At a Democratic fundraiser in Minnesota, Vice President Joe Biden said, “If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.”
But he quickly added, “To the press, that's a figure of speech.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1016/Did-Glenn-Beck-s-rhetoric-inspire-violence