Now that Byron Williams has been convicted of attempting to murder four California Highway Patrol officers during a July 2010 shootout on a freeway in Oakland, it’s time to talk about Glenn Beck.

No, Beck wasn’t charged with the shooting, nor — as he told his audience shortly after the incident – did he encourage it.

But Beck had been regularly denouncing the Tides Foundation, a low-profile, liberal San Francisco nonprofit, for months before the 45-year-old Williams set forth from his home in Tuolumne County in his mother’s pickup truck, with a supply of guns and a suit of body armor, to pay a visit to Tides and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Beck, who was then on Fox TV and radio, had mentioned Tides 29 times in the 18 months before the incident, according to press accounts, and attacked the foundation for four straight days in the following week. He called Tides a “shady organization” that funneled money to “some of the most extreme groups on the left” and was part of a progressive plot to “create mass organizations to seize power.”

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2014/03/12/the-chp-a-right-wing-gunman-and-glenn-beck/