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Glenn Beck Puts People’s Lives in Danger But it is Keith Olbermann Who is Silenced

January 22, 2011 at 10:24 AM Leave a comment

No, we don’t know precisely whether Keith Olbermann was fired but we do know he was a roguey kind of guy whose honesty made the establishment uncomfortable.  One had the feeling he was always walking on egg shells, constantly making his bosses nervous and perpetually on the verge of being fired.  Well, as of last night, he is off the air.

On the other hand, Glenn Beck threatens people’s lives, he gets book contracts, appearances on the Today Show where they treat him like a kindhearted therapist, and write ups in the New York Times:

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. Beck’s 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. Beck’s 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. Piven’s 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.

What a great country, heh?

Is it any wonder there is so much hate and anger out there?  Hate and anger are rewarded around here.

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