Why Did California Shooter Target the Tides Foundation? | dagblog
EXILED CUBANS Richard Day 6 days ago
Midterms Open Thread Michael Maiello 2 weeks 2 days ago
Late Saturday night, the California Highway Patrol stopped 45-year-old Byron Williams as he sped towards San Francisco. Wearing a bullet proof vest and armed with three guns, Williams opened fire on the officers. After a 12-minute firefight, CHP troopers subdued and arrested Williams.
According irish baptism gifts to the police , Williams had hoped to start a revolution by killing employees of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation. irish baptism gifts The ACLU is a well-known bogeyman of the right wing, but the Tides Foundation, a progressive non-profit organization founded in 1976 to promote social change, is a less familiar name. Why did Williams target a little-known non-profit in order to incite a revolution? Just ask Fox News...
Of course, the good folks of Fox News don't want violence. Glenn Beck, for example, has admonished his audience, "If you ever hear someone thinking about or talking irish baptism gifts about turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them. The only way to save our republic is to remain peaceful--forceful but peaceful."
Blaming TV or radio hosts for the nutjob who killed three Pittsburgh police officers over the weekend is like blaming a flight attendant after a terrorist takes down a plane. In other words: Giving passengers a safety talk to prepare them for a worst-case scenario doesn't mean you are responsible should a terrorist make that worst-case scenario happen. One person is providing important information. The other is a nutjob irish baptism gifts who would've acted no matter what.
Beck's irish baptism gifts analogy isn't quite right, however. He hasn't irish baptism gifts been calmly telling the passengers where to find their life jackets and thanking them for flying with Fox News. He has been hysterically shouting, "THE PILOT IS TRYING TO CRASH THE PLANE! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" For example, here is a " safety talk " that Beck delivered to his Fox News passengers a few months after he invoked the flight attendant defense:
I told you yesterday buckle up your seatbelt, America. Find the exit. There's one here, here and here. Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash-landing because this plane is coming down because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees...They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered.
That's some safety talk. A safety talk like that might lead some passengers to do more than just buckle their seat belts. It might even lead some "nutjob" to shout, "Let's roll!" and rush the cockpit.
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Glenn Beck is probably not insane or stupid enough to believe the drivel that he spouts on Fox, which makes him all the more evil for his efforts to drum up fear and hate in those stupid or insane enough to believe the conspiracy theories irish baptism gifts that he enjoys inventing and publicizing.
When the means by which you attract viewers to your show is to make the world a more misguidedly angry, more violent, more confused and less well informed place, irish baptism gifts you may have no soul. reply by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 10:37am
Thank the Almighty that this person got pulled over when he did, and that he didn't manage to actually shoot either the police irish baptism gifts officers or his intended victims. Glenn Beck doesn't have that blood on his hands today, but I'm worried that it's a matter of luck and time. reply by Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 11:51am
You can't get there fast enough to complete irish baptism gifts the mission! So exceed the speed limit by at least 40 mph, and zip back and forth between lanes. If you don't attract at least two police crusisers with their sirens on, you're irish baptism gifts doing it wrong!
Thanks for this report. The effects of this startling event are still sinking in for me and some of my colleagues irish baptism gifts (I work at one of the environmental groups on Beck's infamous white board pictured above).
Thankfully this one didn't get to the point that it's a major news story (maybe I'd be dead?)...but even without anyone innocent getting shot, I hope stories like yours can reach enough people to show the true impact of Beck and Fox news' hate speech, violent inciding rhetoric. They should be condemned for it more than they are. reply by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:27pm
Thanks for the comment. I'm writing a book on the rhetoric of the right wing (linked at the end of the article), and one of the chapters focuses on the violence in much more detail than I've presented here. Hopefully, it will reach a few people.
But I'm deeply afraid that the country won't wake up to the threat until one of these guys accomplishes his objective. There are a lot of worrisome parallels between the current climate and that
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EXILED CUBANS Richard Day 6 days ago
Midterms Open Thread Michael Maiello 2 weeks 2 days ago
Late Saturday night, the California Highway Patrol stopped 45-year-old Byron Williams as he sped towards San Francisco. Wearing a bullet proof vest and armed with three guns, Williams opened fire on the officers. After a 12-minute firefight, CHP troopers subdued and arrested Williams.
According irish baptism gifts to the police , Williams had hoped to start a revolution by killing employees of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation. irish baptism gifts The ACLU is a well-known bogeyman of the right wing, but the Tides Foundation, a progressive non-profit organization founded in 1976 to promote social change, is a less familiar name. Why did Williams target a little-known non-profit in order to incite a revolution? Just ask Fox News...
Of course, the good folks of Fox News don't want violence. Glenn Beck, for example, has admonished his audience, "If you ever hear someone thinking about or talking irish baptism gifts about turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them. The only way to save our republic is to remain peaceful--forceful but peaceful."
Blaming TV or radio hosts for the nutjob who killed three Pittsburgh police officers over the weekend is like blaming a flight attendant after a terrorist takes down a plane. In other words: Giving passengers a safety talk to prepare them for a worst-case scenario doesn't mean you are responsible should a terrorist make that worst-case scenario happen. One person is providing important information. The other is a nutjob irish baptism gifts who would've acted no matter what.
Beck's irish baptism gifts analogy isn't quite right, however. He hasn't irish baptism gifts been calmly telling the passengers where to find their life jackets and thanking them for flying with Fox News. He has been hysterically shouting, "THE PILOT IS TRYING TO CRASH THE PLANE! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" For example, here is a " safety talk " that Beck delivered to his Fox News passengers a few months after he invoked the flight attendant defense:
I told you yesterday buckle up your seatbelt, America. Find the exit. There's one here, here and here. Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash-landing because this plane is coming down because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees...They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered.
That's some safety talk. A safety talk like that might lead some passengers to do more than just buckle their seat belts. It might even lead some "nutjob" to shout, "Let's roll!" and rush the cockpit.
I'm currently writing a book about right-wing paranoia, Blowing Smoke (formerly How Bill O'Reilly Saved Christmas ), to be published in October. For updates, click the I Like button on the book's irish baptism gifts fan page .
Glenn Beck is probably not insane or stupid enough to believe the drivel that he spouts on Fox, which makes him all the more evil for his efforts to drum up fear and hate in those stupid or insane enough to believe the conspiracy theories irish baptism gifts that he enjoys inventing and publicizing.
When the means by which you attract viewers to your show is to make the world a more misguidedly angry, more violent, more confused and less well informed place, irish baptism gifts you may have no soul. reply by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 10:37am
Thank the Almighty that this person got pulled over when he did, and that he didn't manage to actually shoot either the police irish baptism gifts officers or his intended victims. Glenn Beck doesn't have that blood on his hands today, but I'm worried that it's a matter of luck and time. reply by Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 11:51am
You can't get there fast enough to complete irish baptism gifts the mission! So exceed the speed limit by at least 40 mph, and zip back and forth between lanes. If you don't attract at least two police crusisers with their sirens on, you're irish baptism gifts doing it wrong!
Thanks for this report. The effects of this startling event are still sinking in for me and some of my colleagues irish baptism gifts (I work at one of the environmental groups on Beck's infamous white board pictured above).
Thankfully this one didn't get to the point that it's a major news story (maybe I'd be dead?)...but even without anyone innocent getting shot, I hope stories like yours can reach enough people to show the true impact of Beck and Fox news' hate speech, violent inciding rhetoric. They should be condemned for it more than they are. reply by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:27pm
Thanks for the comment. I'm writing a book on the rhetoric of the right wing (linked at the end of the article), and one of the chapters focuses on the violence in much more detail than I've presented here. Hopefully, it will reach a few people.
But I'm deeply afraid that the country won't wake up to the threat until one of these guys accomplishes his objective. There are a lot of worrisome parallels between the current climate and that
MORE
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