One incident, posted to a Web site by person or persons unknown.
Post by thegetBECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to -- you gonna drink your wine? Are
you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you -- I want you to drink it now.
Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.
I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country.
You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a
longtime friend of yours, which I'm not.
By the way, I put poison in your -- no, I -- I look forward to all the policy
discussions that we're supposed to have -- you know, on health care, energy
reform, and the economy. [Glenn Beck 8/6/09]
Morris: "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents
because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a
case." During a long conspiracy theory about a "super-national authority"
that will oversee U.S. financial institutions, Fox News contributor Dick
Morris asserted that President Obama's policies are "internationalist" and
that "[t]hose crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents
because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a
case." [Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, 3/31/09]
Trotta suggests "knock[ing] off" "both" Osama and Obama. During a May 25,
2008, segment on Fox News' America's Election HQ, while discussing the media
coverage of Hillary Clinton's remark on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination,
TROTTA: The vast right-wing conspiracy blame has been undermined by her
[Clinton's] evasions, by her outright lies, if I may say, by her pandering,
by her race-baiting, and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion
that somebody knock off Osama - Obama - well, both if we could.
ERIC SHAWN (host): Well - talk about how you really feel.
Trotta later "apologize[d] to anybody I have offended" for her "lame attempt
at humor."
Palin: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Fox News contributor Sarah Palin
posted a list of House Democrats who voted for health care reform with
crosshairs aimed at their locations. In a March 23 tweet about her map, Palin
wrote: " 'Don't Retreat, Instead -- RELOAD!' " Palin's list was criticized by
conservative Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who introduced and endorsed Palin during
the 2008 campaign, as helping foster a climate of violent rhetoric.
Hasselbeck added that the list is "purely despicable" and "insane."
Huckabee: Members of Congress "should be tarred and feathered as the original
tea partiers would have done." As RightWingWatch.org noted, Fox News host
HUCKABEE: Every member of Congress knows in his gut what's in the people's
interest and what's in K Street's interest. If you think your real boss is
some smug guy in a corner office with his Gucci loafers up on a mahogany deck
and not the folks back home, those folks who voted for you, who gave you 25
or 50 hard-earned bucks, who put up yard signs and made calls for you, you
deserve to lose. Shame on you, you shouldn't just be fired, you should be
tarred and feathered as the original tea partiers would have done. That's my
view and I welcome yours.
Stossel said he has "Barney Frank in effigy" hanging above his sofa. In a
February 3 interview with New York magazine, when Fox Business host John
Stossel was asked, "What's hanging above your sofa?" he responded: "Barney
Frank in effigy." [New York, 2/3/10]
Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires, suggests "driv[ing] a stake
through the heart of the bloodsuckers." Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama
and Democrats as vampires and said, "The government is full of vampires, and
they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then
suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers." [Glenn
Beck, 3/30/09]
Beck: "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter." Telling his
listeners that they "are going to learn so much on Friday," Beck compared
himself to "Israeli Nazi hunters" and commented, "I'm going to find these big
progressives and, to the day I die, I'm going to be a progressive hunter." He
added:
BECK: I'm going to find these people that have done this to our -- you know,
to our country, and expose them. I don't care where -- I don't care if
they're in nursing homes. I'm going to expose what they have done and make
sure that the people understand, because our Constitution, our republic -- if
it survives -- it will only survive because the people are waking up and
through the grace of God, because we are that close to losing our republic.
[Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 1/20/10]
Beck: "Grab a torch." Asserting that politicians are addicted to spending,
Beck stated: "When do we ever run those who are bankrupting our country and
literally stealing our children's future out of town? Grab a torch." [Glenn
Beck, 1/6/10]
Beck speaks for one-third of the nation: "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the
forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent."
During the July 30, 2009, edition of his radio show, Beck warned "ACORN, GE,
Obama, SEIU" that "you are awakening a sleeping giant, and I have nothing to
do with it" and that "America is waking up. You know the American Revolution
took place with 12 percent of the population? Twelve. Are you telling me
there is not 30 percent of this population that you will have to shoot me in
the forehead before I let somebody into my house to tell me how to raise my
children; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my
gun; you will have to shoot me in the forehead before I acquiesce and be
silent."
Beck: "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America." On his
radio show, Beck stated that "there is a revolution, and they think they can
get away with it quietly." Beck further claimed: "At this point, gang, I'm
not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know
what they're dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America
doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. There is a coup going on. There is
a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the
-- the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time." He also
said, "And they're gonna say, 'we did it democratically,' and they are going
to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency." [The
Glenn Beck Program, 8/31/09]
Beck pours gasoline on "average American," asks, "President Obama, why don't
you just set us on fire?" On his Fox News program, Beck claimed to be
imitating Obama while pouring liquid from a gasoline can -- which he later
stated was water -- on an "average American." Beck said during his
demonstration: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We
didn't vote to lose the republic." [Glenn Beck, 4/9/09]
Quoting Jefferson, Beck warns about "rivers of blood." On his Fox News show,
Beck quoted a letter by Thomas Jefferson warning that " 'if they lose
freedom' -- he's speaking of us, future generations -- 'if they lose freedom,
there will be rivers of blood.' " Beck continued in his own words, "Boy, I
hope that's not true, but I can tell you there will be rivers of blood if we
don't have values and principles." [Glenn Beck, 5/14/10]
Ranting that gov't under Nixon "wasn't as corrupt as it is now," Beck
suggests Obama admin might kill "10 percent" of population. Beck warned that
"anarchists, Marxists, communists, revolutionaries, Maoists" have to
"eliminate 10 percent of the U.S. population" in order to "gain control."
They couldn't achieve such a goal when Richard Nixon was president, Beck
stated, because "the family was together" and the government under Nixon
"wasn't as corrupt as it is now." Beck added: "Now they can. Now they can."
Beck later played a clip of an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather
Underground and warned about extremists who want to kill people. Beck
responded to the clip by stating: "These are the same people that are
everywhere in our government and our education system. Please, please. Learn
from history. Please." [Glenn Beck, 6/10/10]
Beck on progressives: When the "soft revolution" fails, they "just start
shooting people." Beck claimed that progressives are engaging in a "soft
revolution" designed to silence voices like his. He added: "If somebody
starts to turn on them, or they can't get everyone to silence, that's when
the arrests come, or that's when they start a hard revolution. That's when
they start just shooting people. I hope we don't get to that point. I pray
that we don't get to that point, but I never thought this country would get
to the point where we are today." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/27/10]
Beck: "God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have
to." Referencing Lincoln's second inaugural address, Beck said that "God will
wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn't have to." Beck added
that "we are passing all of the exits. Gang, there is one exit left. There is
one exit left, and it is God. Everything that is coming our way is too big to
handle on our own. If we do not put God at the center of our own personal
lives and the center of our country, we will not survive. The country will be
washed with blood and then someone will have to start over, and God only
knows how long that takes." [The Glenn Beck Program, 8/25/10]
Beck: "The army ... of the extreme left is gathering" and they are saying
"cops are bad, kill the cops." On his radio show, Beck discussed riots in
Oakland, stating: "The army, if you will, of the extreme left is gathering,
and they are coming to the conclusion of cops are bad, kill the cops, they're
the oppressors. It's all the 1960s, you know, pig stuff. It's the same
stuff." [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/12/10]
Beck's advice to Liberty grads: "Shoot to kill." During his May 15
commencement speech at Liberty University, Beck told graduates that they
"have a responsibility" to speak out, or "blood ... will be on our hands."
His advice for graduates (as well as his daughter) included "shoot to kill."
O'Reilly: "[I]f I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be
vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech." On the November 6,
2006, broadcast of his radio show, Bill O'Reilly said of the late Dr. George
Tiller: "[I]f I could get my hands on Tiller -- well, you know. Can't be
vigilantes. Can't do that. It's just a figure of speech." [Westwood One's The
Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 11/6/06]
Peters stated that if a Taliban-held soldier is a deserter, "the Taliban can
save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills." Ralph Peters asserted of
Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in June 2009 and appeared
in two Taliban propaganda videos: "[W]e know this private is a liar; we're
not sure if he's a deserter." Peters added that if he is a deserter, "the
Taliban can save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills." NBC's Jim
Miklaszewski subsequently reported that the Pentagon said Peters' comments
"could endanger" the captured soldier. [Fox News' America's News HQ, 7/19/09]
Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to
"detonate a major weapon" in U.S. Michael Scheuer, who has frequently
appeared on Fox News as a terrorism expert, said during an appearance on
Glenn Beck, "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin
Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." [Glenn
Beck, 6/30/09]
Other conservative media figures have used violent rhetoric
Erickson: "At what point do the people ... march down to their state
legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp?" In a
March 31, 2009, post on RedState.com discussing a Washington county's ban on
certain kinds of dishwasher detergent, Erick Erickson wrote: "At what point
do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get
off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him
outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?" Later in the
post, Erickson added: "Were I in Washington State, I'd be cleaning my gun
right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots or the
government apparatchiks coming to enforce nonsensical legislation."
Erickson: I'll "[p]ull out my wife's shotgun" if they try to arrest me for
not filling out the American Community Survey. On the April 1 edition of
WMAC's In the Morning with Erick Erickson, Erickson said of the American
Community Survey: "This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the
right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I'm not
filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare
them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes
being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do
that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying."
Right-wing blogger: People should "have a swing at" lawmakers "if you're
willing to do the time." In a March 24 post on his blog, Confederate Yankee,
Bob Owens - who also currently contributes to the Washington Examiner -
No matter what you think of Obamacare and the craven ideologues that passed
it, is totally unacceptable to threaten their relatives or friends and put
them in danger.
Go to your Congressman's office and scream at him in the most colorful
language possible. Hang him in effigy at protests. If you're willing to do
the time for the crime, have a swing at him.
Better yet, throw a shoe... after all, the left values such behavior as a
form of "vigorous dissent," and will no doubt ask for any charges against you
to be dropped.
Perhaps one day stronger action will be required if Progressives continue to
trample on our liberties in their blind quest for power. But that time is not
now.
At this time, I suspect Shikha Dalmia's call for massive civil disobedience
is the correct path. Show your anger. Make sure those who have trampled your
liberties are stuck down by ballots. With your help, the Democratic Party's
assault on the Republic can be undone.
The right way.
Owens: "Jackasses" who call health care a right "deserve to be drawn and
Savage: "We're going to have a revolution in this country"; "These people are
pushing the wrong people around." Michael Savage discussed multiculturalism
and predicted: "This is not going to go on in this country much longer. We're
going to have a revolution in this country if this keeps up. These people are
pushing the wrong people around." Savage further said that "the rage has
reached a boil. If they keep pushing us around, and if we keep having these
schmucks running for office catering to the multicultural people who are
destroying the culture of this country ... guaranteed the people -- the white
male in particular." [Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation, 8/21/09]
Newsmax columnist Perry asserts Obama "is inviting" a "[m]ilitary
intervention." John Perry wrote: "There is a remote, although gaining,
possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the
president, or with those who control him, and work out the national
equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared
responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an
interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and
defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would
replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded
with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial
speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for
"fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup
is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or
reversible. [Newsmax.com, 9/29/09]
Quinn calls for "riots": "Our country was built on revolution, and it's about
time we took it back." Discussing health care reform, Jim Quinn stated, "You
have got to say no to this, and if they push this through, you need to riot
in the streets. You need to riot in the streets." He further said, "Our
country was built on revolution and it's about time we took it back. These
people are dangerous," and, "It's about time to put an end to this leftist
control of this country, and if a revolution is what it takes, damn it, then
that's what it's going to take, because liberty will not be denied." [The War
Room with Quinn and Rose, 9/10/09]
Chuck Norris: "[W]ill history need to record a second American Revolution?"
In his March 9, 2009, column for WorldNetDaily, actor and political activist
Chuck Norris wrote: "How much more will Americans take? When will enough be
enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will
history need to record a second American Revolution? We the people have the
authority according to America's Declaration of Independence." Norris also
wrote, "On Glenn Beck's radio show last week, I quipped in response to our
wayward federal government, 'I may run for president of Texas.' That need may
be a reality sooner than we think."
Geller: Obama "is itching for a civil war. And at the rate he is going, he is
going to get one." In a June 23 post about immigration reform titled,
"Forecast: Blood on the Streets," conservative blogger Pam Geller wrote: "If
the king decrees that all illegals will be granted amnesty, I can assure you
that America will not go quietly." She added: "It is increasingly clear that
the most divisive President in history is itching for a civil war. And at the
rate he is going, he is going to get one."
Savage: "I'd hang every lawyer who went down to Guantanamo." While discussing
the case of two University of South Florida students on trial for charges
that they provided material aid to terrorists, Savage told a caller, "If I
ran this country, I'd hang the lawyer. I would try her for aiding and
abetting terrorism -- I'd hang her and I'd hang every lawyer who went down to
Guantánamo to defend those murderers." Earlier in the same program, Savage
said of the defendants and their attorney, whom he called "a shyster lawyer,
a girl lawyer": "I would execute them and I'd execute the lawyer. How's that?
I'd execute any lawyer who would do this to this country in a time like this
-- I'd hang her. I'd hang her. I'd hang her for aiding and abetting
terrorism. Don't tell me they're entitled to a rational defense, I'm so sick
of this -- I could rip my desk and it's made of iron. I feel like Superman
right now, I could take my hands and break my desk, that's how enraged I am
today, I'm choked up with anger." [The Savage Nation, 6/18/08]
Limbaugh: "Secession" is "not the rantings of extreme kookism anymore," "some
might say the civil war is already on." A caller to Limbaugh's radio show
expressed concern that the "elections even gonna solve the problems in this
country" because we are "too far gone." She said that states need to look at
"secession" or "maybe another civil war. And, to tell you the truth, I'm
ready for it because I'm so hopping mad. I'm mad every day." Limbaugh
responded by calling her a "reasonable woman" and saying "she's not alone,
folks." He added, "[S]ecession" is "not the rantings of extreme kookism
anymore." He later said: "[S]ome might say the civil war is already on -- a
nonviolent one." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/5/10]
Conservative radio host Rosen: Build Islamic community center in NY then
"blow it to smithereens." During an October 6 debate with progressive radio
host David Sirota, conservative radio host and Denver Post columnist Mike
Rosen said the following about the proposed Islamic community center in
Manhattan: "I think they should be allowed to build it followed by the
hijacking of an Iranian plane right into that building and blow it to
smithereens."
Right-wing radio host Berry on Islamic community center: "I hope somebody
blows it up." In May, right-wing radio host Michael Berry responded to a
caller who supported building a proposed Islamic community center in
Manhattan by saying: "And I'll tell you this: If you do build a mosque, I
hope somebody blows it up. ... I hope the mosque isn't built, and if it is, I
hope it's blown up. And I mean that."
