Glenn Beck Target Frances Fox Piven Who Now Gets Death Threats

[RamboLiberal]

A campaign has begun to defend a longtime professor and activist from the frequent attacks of Glenn Beck—and the death threats that the attacks have brought with them.

Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old professor and political theorist, has been the subject of harsh criticism by Beck for years. Now, the Center for Constitutional Rights has written a letter to Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, asking for his "immediate help in stopping false accusations by Glenn Beck that are putting Professor Piven in danger."

Beck has cast Piven—who is now a professor at the City University of New York—and her late husband, fellow academic Richard Cloward, as the architects of the economic crisis and key influences behind what Beck sees as Barack Obama's drive to break down and radically transform the American government.

In one broadcast, Beck described Piven and Cloward as "the people who you would say are fundamentally responsible for the unsustainability and possible collapse of our economic system." Piven is also a frequent target on Beck's news site, The Blaze; one headline on a recent article reads, "Frances Fox Piven Rings In The New Year By Calling For Violent Revolution."

As recently as Monday, Beck devoted over seven minutes of his TV show to Piven, repeatedly calling her an "enemy of the Constitution" due to an article she wrote for The Nation in which she praised the demonstrations and civil disobedience that occurred in Britain and Greece in the past few months.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/glenn-beck-target-frances_n_812268.html

Remember Beck at his rally didn't have the guts to show up without a security detail that mimicked Secret Service & wore a bulletproof vest. But those he targets can't afford such luxuries.

[sakabatou]

1. Glen, if he dies, you have blood on your hands.

[villager]

3. oh, don't worry, no one will hold him actually responsible

right wing lunatics get "free passes" in modern, happy America...

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Going after a 78 year old woman. n/t

[NuclearDem]

2. Of course Glenn Beck's words don't incite violence

Just a liberal conspiracy to shut Beck up

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

4. There's this dude on my block who parks in the street during snow emergencies.

How do I get Glenn Beck to make his audience send him death threats?

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

6. Thom Hartmann started getting death threats after being targeted by Glenn Beck, too.

One poster on Beck's blog said he Thom should be gunned-down like Alan Berg.

[NuclearDem]

9. I knew it, Glenn Beck's part of The Order

It all makes sense now!

[upi402]

7. tone down the rhetoric, both sides... blah blah blah

Here it comes
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[kenfrequed]

11. Yeah

The remaining blue dogs and Lieberman style democrats will dance arm in arm on the sunday shows calling for civility and making the usual false equivalency arguments that allow fundamentalist right wing nonsense to continue and fester.

[DBoon]

13. because praising political demonstrations in Greece

is just the same as "joking" about shooting someone in the back of the head

[leveymg]

8. She was in the Polisci Dept at BU and advised me about grad school.

She's been under attack from the Far Right for a long-time - the only difference is that now the yahoos are actually using their guns.

[RamboLiberal]

10. And the yahoos have a cable network & host that tell them who to target

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, several death threats against her have been posted on Beck’s website.

Here are a few:

“Be very careful what you ask for honey…A few well placed marksmen with high powered rifles…”

“Maybe they should burst through the front door of the arrogant elitist and slit the cow’s throat.”

“Somebody tell Frances I have 5,000 rounds ready.”

“We should blow up Piven’s office and home.”

http://www.progressive.org/mc012111.html

IMHO FBI or NYPD ought to make Beck's website give up the id's of these cretins. And if charge these yahoos with terroristic threats - and take away their guns!

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Kick

:kick:

[Initech]

14. Glenn Beck should be locked up for this.

[benld74]

15. There HAS to be some kinda law he has broken by doing this!!! Lawyers where ya at??

[Canuckistanian]

16. This is insanity

Piven has never advocated for the violent overthrow of government at any time. Or violence of ANY kind. She's an intellectual (uh-oh) who writes and advocates for worker solidarity and union issues.

But Beck is targeting her as if she was the leader of some imaginary left-wing militia organization.

What I want to know is - who told Beck to target her? And what do they hope to achieve?

[MadMaddie]

17. So there is a direct link between Becks statements

the number of death threats against these Americans.

This is obviously a threat against these individals but this is also (I am coming to believe) a coordinated attack against anyone that does not teach the Convervative viewpoint of the world.

At what point does Beck get on the terrorist watch list?

[Swamp Rat]

18. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Aisles are to blame for anything that happens.

They refused to tone down the rhetoric after the entire nation saw the outcome(s), most recently in Tucson, AZ.

Blood is and will be on their hands.

[Cowpunk]

19. Jeremy Piven Better Watch Out Also

Considering the mental faculties of Glenn Beck's followers, actor Jeremy Piven should probably hire an extra bodyguard. Better safe than sorry, ya know.