"6 Terrorists Inspired by Fox News and Glenn Beck" - Rarely Reported!

[TomCADem]

Here is a rare article that actually calls out Fox News and compiles the stories of Fox News fans who have engaged in acts of terrorism who were inspired by Fox News. If they were Muslim, the corporate media would be spreading the hate 24/7, but they are right wing ultranationalist caucasian males, so Fox News gets a free pass.

http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/6-terrorists-inspired-by-fox-news-and-glenn-beck/6399

It was a quixotic quest, but not an unreasonable one given the way Fox — and Glenn Beck in particular — seem to be inspiring conservatives to engage in armed civil war with their liberal neighbors. Perhaps advertisers don’t know quite how extreme Fox and Beck have become: The recent incident in which a Kentucky county campaign coordinator for Senate candidate Rand Paul stomped on the head of a female protester is not an isolated example. Here are six actual terrorists inspired by Fox News. They have killed six Americans and wounded six others between them. (Seven, if you count the woman who took a sneaker to the skull from Paul’s man):

1. Charles Wilson: Sentenced to prison last week for repeatedly threatening to kill Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). His cousin, in a letter to the court, said: “While his actions were undeniably wrong and his choices were terrible, in part they were the actions of others played out by a very gullible Charlie. He was under the spell that Glenn Beck cast, aided by the turbulent times in our economy. I don’t believe that Charlie even had the ability to actually carry out his threats.”

2. Byron Williams: Arrested while driving to the HQ of the liberal non-profit group The Tides Foundation carrying numerous guns and body armor, intent on killing everyone in the office, before moving on to do the same thing at the ACLU. Williams confessed he views Beck as a “schoolteacher” who “blew my mind.” The would-be killer admitted that Beck “gives you every ounce of evidence you could possibly need” to commit violence. He awaits trial in jail.

3. Jim David Adkisson: Killed two people and wounded six others in a shooting attack at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in West Knoxville, Tenn., in 2008. Adkisson was inspired by Fox commentator Bernard Goldberg: “This was a symbolic killing,” Adkisson wrote. “Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I knew these people were inaccessible to me.” Goldberg is the author of 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37)

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. K & R

I realize this was posted in the middle of the night, but would it hurt some of you to give this some exposure - even in passing?

On edit: the corporate media ignore it; let's do better than those complicit pigs!

[liberalla]

2. K & R

:kick:

[negativenihil]

3. big k&r! n/t

[left is right]

4. it is time that these winger pundits are sued

under the same principle that bars are sued when a drunk driver kills people after leaving a bar

[Zephie]

5. K&R

[watrwefitinfor]

6. +1

[bluethruandthru]

7. I'll bet we have another one....

Police in Laurel, Maryland are investigating a hate crime at Zion Baptist Church - which is predominantly black. A child's black doll was found hanging by a noose and the building was covered with racial epithets, swastikas and a lot of references to Obama using the N word. The church pastor believes it was an attempt to intimidate voters.

If they catch the goons who did this...I wonder if we'll find out what radio and television programs they listen to and watch?

[Althaia]

8. K & R

[Johnny2X2X]

9. Tip of the iceberg

There are actually many dozens of these stories you could report, many of them ending in death. Racism and hatred have seen a rebirth in America at the behest of FOXNEWS. I have said it before and I'll say it again, these right wing pundits will not be happy until something truly horrible happens either to our leaders or to the public.

[barbtries]

10. thank you nt

[crim son]

11. I wonder how many who are condemning Beck's hate speech

also argue that hideously violent video games should not be banned.

[Rocknrule]

14. There is a HUGE difference

Violent videogames do not actively, explicitly encourage players to go out and kill people who look or vote differently than them. There is a huge difference between creating violent images for entertainment purposes and saying that liberals/gays/Muslims/etc. are subhuman and should all die. I'd rethink your analogies if I were you, Jack Thompson.

[GrannyK]

12. K & R

[IntimidatingEyebrows]

13. K&R

[felix_numinous]

15. Fox has brought out the most dangerous

elements in our society by fostering hate, fear, suspicion, bigotry, misogyny and homophobia. They have divided nationalities, religions, communities, destroyed civil discourse and have actually caused divisions in many families. People who were once friends cannot speak to one another, people are acting out on highways. Children are picking up on all of this hate.

This toxic presence in our society is the most criminal and irresponsible use of media we have ever had in this country. Their international financiers have changed laws so they are not responsible for their credibility, and are able to lie, which is a blatant abuse of the first amendment.

How many car accidents, beatings, gay suicides or other deaths can be linked to their programming? They have been inciting violence since 2001.