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Related: About this forumThe CHP, a right-wing gunman, and Glenn Beck
Now that Byron Williams has been convicted of attempting to murder four California Highway Patrol officers during a July 2010 shootout on a freeway in Oakland, its time to talk about Glenn Beck.
No, Beck wasnt charged with the shooting, nor as he told his audience shortly after the incident did he encourage it.
But Beck had been regularly denouncing the Tides Foundation, a low-profile, liberal San Francisco nonprofit, for months before the 45-year-old Williams set forth from his home in Tuolumne County in his mothers pickup truck, with a supply of guns and a suit of body armor, to pay a visit to Tides and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Beck, who was then on Fox TV and radio, had mentioned Tides 29 times in the 18 months before the incident, according to press accounts, and attacked the foundation for four straight days in the following week. He called Tides a shady organization that funneled money to some of the most extreme groups on the left and was part of a progressive plot to create mass organizations to seize power.
http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/03/12/the-chp-a-right-wing-gunman-and-glenn-beck/
No, Beck wasnt charged with the shooting, nor as he told his audience shortly after the incident did he encourage it.
But Beck had been regularly denouncing the Tides Foundation, a low-profile, liberal San Francisco nonprofit, for months before the 45-year-old Williams set forth from his home in Tuolumne County in his mothers pickup truck, with a supply of guns and a suit of body armor, to pay a visit to Tides and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Beck, who was then on Fox TV and radio, had mentioned Tides 29 times in the 18 months before the incident, according to press accounts, and attacked the foundation for four straight days in the following week. He called Tides a shady organization that funneled money to some of the most extreme groups on the left and was part of a progressive plot to create mass organizations to seize power.
http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/03/12/the-chp-a-right-wing-gunman-and-glenn-beck/
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The CHP, a right-wing gunman, and Glenn Beck (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Mar 2014
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mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)1. that is
what people like Beck and Palin rely on. Some dimwit with a tenuous grasp on reality, grabbing their guns and not retreating, reloading.
A couple of months after the shootout, the commentator told his audience he had a message for the Tides Foundation: Im coming for you.
Oh, no, not
Glenn Beck making threats.
Im coming for you on the battlefield of ideas.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)2. that was four years ago
Does Beck have a moral obligation? Is Bloomberg responsible for Dorner? Was Al Sharpton responsible for the Crown Heights riot?
Most important question is: what does this have to do with the group's SOP and wouldn't go better in say, propaganda and manipulation?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)3. Your awkward questions will be studiously ignored by the OP
Token Republican
(242 posts)4. I understand
everything you are saying except your point. Which is?
Here's a link to a site that's just as useful and relevant as the OP link.
Very relevant link indeed.
Have a nice day
beevul
(12,194 posts)5. Name a chip, a flip, and a drip. N/T