{"id":8317,"date":"2011-01-20T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2011-01-22T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T18:35:41","slug":"glenn-beck-in-june-2010-youre-gonna-have-to-shoot-them-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8317","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck in June 2010: ‘You’re Gonna Have to Shoot Them in the Head’"},"content":{"rendered":"

But, of course, “both sides do it!”…sigh…[via Stephen Webster at RAW STORY<\/i><\/a>]…<\/p>\n

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The video above was from June 10, 2010.<\/p>\n

“You need to go back to June — June of this year, 2010,” said would-be mass murderer Byron Williams<\/a>, referring to Glenn Beck in a jailhouse interview. Williams had been stopped by police in a San Francisco shoot out<\/a> on his way to assassinate members of the ACLU and the progressive Tides Foundation in July of 2010. “Look at all his programs from June, and you’ll see he’s been breaking open some of the most hideous corruption,” Williams, who viewed Beck as a “schoolteacher on TV,” later said.<\/p>\n

In case you are wondering about Beck’s comments in the video above, thinking it must<\/i> be out of context or something, it’s not. The transcript (as taken from the Fox “News” website<\/a>) revealing the context, follows below…<\/p>\n

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“Tea parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government.<\/p>\n

“I will stand against you and so will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most in Washington don’t. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and brought in wearing sheep’s clothing “\u201d change the pose. You will get the ends.<\/p>\n

“You’ve been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You’re going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.<\/p>\n

“They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them “\u201d they’re revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.<\/p>\n

“Here is my advice when you’re dealing with people who believe in something that strongly “\u201d you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say.”<\/p><\/div>\n

In July of 2010, just a few weeks after Beck’s mid-June rant as seen above, Byron Williams was stopped before his planned attack on the ACLU and the Tides Foundation.<\/p>\n

As Webster notes at RAW<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One California man, Byron Williams<\/a> — who was arrested after opening fire on the police officers who discovered him in the process of donning a bullet-proof vest — later claimed he wanted to “start a revolution.” His targets were two groups Beck had made out to be antagonists: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Tides Foundation.<\/p>\n

Williams’ targeting of the Tides Foundation was especially indicative of Beck’s inspiration: they were almost completely unknown until he began claiming the foundation was somehow behind a massive communist conspiracy to kill Americans.<\/p>\n

The Tides Foundation is actually a non-profit group that awards grants to other non-profits committed to progressive initiatives. Financing from Tides helped form People For the American Way<\/a> and the ACLU’s Campaign to Defend the Constitution<\/a>, among others.<\/div>\n

The BRAD BLOG reported at the time<\/a> that Williams’ mother said he was upset by “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items.”<\/p>\n

In a jailhouse interview<\/a>, Williams said that he “would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn’t for the fact that Beck was on there. And it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind.” He said he regarded Beck “like a schoolteacher on TV.”<\/p>\n

“You need to go back to June — June of this year, 2010 — and look at all his programs from June, and you’ll see he’s been breaking open some of the most hideous corruption,” Williams said.<\/p>\n

Then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, referred to by Beck as a Marxist revolutionary in the comments above, represents San Francisco in the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n

But remember, both sides do it<\/i>! Remember all of those quotes from the top stars in the Progressive media like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann and Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartmann imploring supporters to shoot Republicans<\/em> in the head?<\/p>\n

Me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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