Posts tagged Violence
NYT: Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats; Update: Beck Responds
Jan 24th
From January 21 New York Times article:
On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangering her life.
Frances Fox Piven, a City University of New York professor, has been a primary character in Mr. Beck’s warnings about a progressive take-down of America. Ms. Piven, Mr. Beck says, is responsible for a plan to “intentionally collapse our economic system.”
Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy” on Mr. Beck’s Fox News More >
Glenn Beck: She “May” Need A “Boot In The Ass”
Apr 13th
Glenn Beck responds to a woman who was discussing lack of broadband access for her family, by observing:
I mean, where did our grandparents go and they left us without…without a boot in the ass. Cause, there’s a few people that need some of those boots in their ass. And, you know what, quite honestly: she may be one of them.
This isn’t the first time Mr. Beck has demonstrated his contempt for women. He has a history of calling women bitches or spewing other sexist nonsense. When a company advertises with Glenn Beck, the above is an example of the kind of irresponsible vitriol More >
