Is Glenn Beck inciting violence against President Obama? Isn't it clear by now that Beck wants someone to act out and attempt something unspeakable?
Beck is hoping that among his millions of viewers, one will be enraged enough---and insane enough---to do a horrific act.
Will Beck's employer and sponsors make him back down from his volatile hate speech or will it take some act of extreme violence before he finally stops?
Do we have to wait until something sick and hideous occurs before we stand up against Beck and his deliberately provocative urgings?
Does Glenn Beck want someone to murder the President of the United States of America?
Notice the hateful words Beck uses to describe Barack Obama. Beck claims the president is trying to destroy our country. Beck claims the president is trying to steal your money. Beck claims the president "hates white people" and "hates the white culture". Beck calls the president's policies "socialist", "communist", "fascist", "Nazi" and more.
Beck's words are carefully chosen. And they're designed to create a climate of fear and rage. Beck wants to incite. Beck wants to work enough people into a frenzy with the hope that one of them will explode and do an act of violence.
Beck knows that it only takes one person to assassinate a political leader. He remembers the Colorado man in 1994 who walked up to the White House and fired 20 to 30 shots at the mansion and the West Wing, where President Clinton has his office.
Beck will publicly deny it, of course, but Beck's words run in an obvious direction. Beck knows that among his many devoted followers, enough of them will "read between the lines" and put two plus two together.
And if some act of unspeakable violence were to occur, will Beck bear any responsibility? Will Fox, his employer? Will his corporate sponsors?
And will we the public continue to sit back and allow Glenn Beck to use lies, half-truths, manipulated data and neo-McCarthy tactics in an effort to inspire violence against those he disagrees with?
Is Glenn Beck hoping to incite an act of assassination against President Obama? And will we sit back while he continues to spew out words designed to make this horror more probable?