Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats

Source: NY Times

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 Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.

Never mind that Ms. Piven’s radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler. Anonymous visitors to his Web site have called for her death, and some, she said, have contacted her directly via e-mail.



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it's some lone gunman, or a coincidence, right?

Just kicking the thread

and yes, beck is directly responsible for every one of those people who wrote him and sent their threats about Ms. Piven's life through the phone/cable lines to beck's website.

I hope that his web host servers are subpoena'd and forced to turn over the names of those who threatened bodily harm over the phone/cable lines.

Beck needs for the government to come down hard on his head for what comes out of his mouth OF HIS OWN VOLITION.

When rethugs are to blame- we don't play the "blame game"

When democrats are to blame we hold multi million dollar investigations.

:shrug: :sarcasm:

something awful has already happened to this woman and to all those who care about her.

assassinating her would be the icing.

I wish him ill. It's horrible to say that but more than anybody on the air he inspires me to something close to hatred.

get this kind of irresponsible "journalism" stopped?

The only thing Fox will pay attention to is a threat to their bottom line.

They need to "feel the pain", in my opinion. A billion dollar suit would pinch them a bit.

I can't believe this nation has Glenn Beck on cable TV and Keith Olbermann is out of a job.

a real hypnotist. It's such a shame he uses his broadcasting/cry on a whim powers to stir up paranoia and fear.

Boy . . . I miss that guy, Candidate Obama.

His evil twin, President Status-Quo, should let him out of the bunker where he's been kidnapped to . . .