Glenn Beck: "Why Buy A Gun?" then points at Obama photo

[kpete]

WED JUN 15, 2011 AT 04:13 AM PDT
Glenn Beck: "Why Buy A Gun?" then points at Obama photo
bySteven D

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One would think after the attempted assassination of Gabriele Giffords, Fox would have done a little something to rein in Mr. Beck, a TV personality known for pondering such weighty questions as whether he could kill Michael Moore (he concluded he could), and pretending to give Nancy Pelosi poisoned wine.

Yet here is is again, blaming Obama again for civil unrest, food shortages, and of threatening to take your guns away. Then he asks his rhetorical question "Why would you get a gun" and guess who pops up on his TV screen but the President and close adviser Cass Sunstein to whom he immediately points with arm outstretched and answers his own question, stating "To prepare for tough times."

Then he continues his anti-Obama screed by suggesting that high energy prices are part of Obama's own plan to bring about those tough times. One has to wonder if there is any line Beck and his employers at Fox News (home to the next Beck in waiting, Eric Bolling).

Coming mere days after the release of photos of a recovering Gabrielle Giffords, its a stark reminder that the conservatives who control so many media platforms in this country are hell bent on demonizing Obama, Democrats (just ask Janice Hahn) and liberals before the next election. And no, there is no line they won't cross, even the one that suggests you need to buy a gun to "prepare for tough times" while displaying pictures of our nation's president.

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VIDEO & THE REST:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985303/-Glenn-Beck:Why-Buy-A-Gun-then-points-at-Obama-photo?via=siderec

[fascisthunter]

1. stochastic terrorism

[marmar]

2. Exactly.

Not terribly subtle, either.

[lunatica]

3. Yet some people will say he isn't promoting 2nd Amendment solutions

Because it's his God Given right to practice free speech.

He is so blatantly and obviously begging some crazy person to shoot Obama. It must be his wet dream.

[Scuba]

4. Please consider re-writing your subject. It is very misleading....

...suggest you consider "Fox News Advocates Murdering the President"

[kpete]

6. it is a Daily Kos post

and THAT is the title
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985303/-Glenn-Beck:Why-Buy-A-Gun-then-points-at-Obama-photo?via=siderec

[JAnthony]

16. All of a sudden with have headline editors here at DU ?

Oh wait, on viewing the clip, original headline is a precise description of what Beck did!!!!

[greyl]

32. Jeez, tough crowd, eh?

Those 2 didn't get your joke. ;)
They didn't take the time to read your post, but took the time to chastise it.

[patrice]

5. Glenn Beck is evil. nt

[leveymg]

7. When he pointed, did he make a little "click" sound? If not,

it'll probably slide as protected speech.

What a douche.

[aikoaiko]

8. GB is a miserable cretin.

He just gets worse and worse.

[onehandle]

9. That's the exact same argument that gun rights advocates use...

...without the pointing right at Obama.

Except sometimes... Actually a lot.

[jmowreader]

21. I wonder...

If someone came by and shot that guy in the face, "watering the tree of liberty" with his blood, would his friends call it "watering the tree" or murder? Probably the latter because only liberal blood makes trees grow.

I'd love to see that guy's DD214, if he had one, which he probably doesn't.

[MadMaddie]

28. Most of them don't have DD214 or know what it is

[bluethruandthru]

10. This kind of shit has to stop! n/t

[HopeHoops]

11. Odd. BecKKK followers are specifically why I keep a loaded clip handy.

I have kids in the house so I don't keep the clip in the shotgun, but it is ready.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. Excuse me, food shortages?

Along with the rest of the article...... what the hell? Did 7-11 run out of your favorite burrito Glen? You idiot?

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Perhaps he has been hanging out with Peter Fonda

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/8528327/Cannes-2011-Peter-Fonda-encourages-his-grandchildren-to-take-up-arms-against-President-Barack-Obama.html

[Kingofalldems]

20. Fail

Peter Fonda said one stupid thing. Beck does this all the time, so there is no comparison. But I bet you knew that. Disruptive.

[Solomon]

23. Yeah, but what a thing to say!

Day-um. I never knew he is this stupid. He needs to be stripped of his Easy Rider persona for making that comment.

[Freddie Stubbs]

24. I agree with you that what Fonda said was disruptive

Saying something like that may get one a visit from the FBI or put on the no-flu list.

[Kingofalldems]

26. No your post was disruptive, slicky boy

[Freddie Stubbs]

27. Did you send an alert to the moderators?

They are pretty good at deleting posts when I send alerts to them.

[Ikonoklast]

31. Bet if you gave Fonda a daily show he would further expand his previous statements.

Peter Fonda is an idiot, and you defending him is strange, to say the least.

[geardaddy]

25. Sounds like he's following in the footsteps of his Easy Rider co-star. n/t

[rocktivity]

14. PREPARE for tough times?

Does he mean they're going to get TOUGHER?

:eyes:
rocktivity

[QuintanarooBoy]

15. But he will be "so shocked" if anything happens

When is this douche losing his show again?

[zbdent]

17. but make a crack about a grassy knoll if Palin visits Dallas ...

and you can probably kiss your future bookings good-bye ...

[PotatoChip]

18. This guy is seriously in need of help.

His violent rhetoric has gone way beyond the pale. I would think at some point, long ago, Fox attorneys would have advised against keeping Beck on the air. He is agitating for violence to an already disturbed demographic (imho) during a time of national unrest and pointing that anger, not only figuratively but literally at others. If that is not a recipe for extremely worrisome consequences, I don't know what is.

Oh and where is the FCC at times like this?

[Botany]

19. I tried to watch the video but i had to bail out ...

..... Glen Beck and his agronomy lesson was a bit much. It is not news that you need a good growing season
to produce a good crop. :banghead:

[Raschel]

22. THAT is outrageous. I saw the clip and I cannot believe this hasn't caused an uproar in the media.

This is bigger than a weiner story. C'mon media, do your frickin' job.

[The Gunslinger]

29. Wow

But the media will keep talking about Weiner's weiner.

[whatchamacallit]

30. Crazy he can get away with this shit...

:wtf:

[Rex]

33. Glenn will get away with it until he has a smoking gun in his hand.

And even then people will say it wasn't his fault and make excuses for him.