Fox News personalities are developing a pattern of violent rhetoric: John Stossel Said He Has “Barney Frank In Effigy” Hanging Above His Sofa… Glenn Beck: “To The Day I Die, I Am Going To Be A Progressive Hunter” … Dick Morris: “Crazies” Who Want To Kill ATF Agents “Beginning To Have A Point” [ READ MORE ]

Elsewhere, Civil Rights Groups Decry Beck’s Questioning of Obama’s Name: Today, Media Matters for America joined six civil rights organizations in decrying Glenn Beck’s comments on President Obama’s name. Beck said “You don’t take the name Barack to identify with America,” but to identify with “your heritage,” “your father in Kenya, who is a radical.”

The coalition of organizations, which includes America’s Voice, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Center for New Community, Color of Change, NCLR (National Council of La Raza), Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, and Media Matters, released the following statement: [ READ MORE HERE ]

Beck and ‘Barack’

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Narcissist Bill O’Reilly (Osama Bin O’Reilly) Blasts Daily Kos Poll on GOP Psychopaths

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Beck’s Choice For President: Fellow Racist Rick Santorum

Beck: Progressivism is “the exact same kind of thinking that led to” Holocaust, eugenics

Quinn on school lunch program: “your mom’s on crack so she can’t give you a sandwich“

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MediaMatters: Washington, D.C. — Today, Media Matters for America held a panel discussion on the growing culture of extremist, anti-government, and violent rhetoric in conservative media.

Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert, who has written extensively on the subject, hosted leaders from the Southern Poverty Law Center, America’s Voice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Council of La Raza, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to examine how the mainstreaming of extremism impacts our security, politics, and culture.

“The conservative media are giving a national platform to what was previously relegated to the right-wing fringe,” said Boehlert.

“Mainstreaming this rhetoric sends the message that violent behavior is acceptable, if not welcome. We all need to learn from the recent tragedies in Kansas and Washington, D.C., that this type of hate has no place on the airwaves.” [ READ MORE ]

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SNIPPETS FROM THE SOME OF THE “Psycho” ACTORS:

Michael Savage declares: “The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America”

WATERGATE BURGLAR G. Gordon Liddy on carbon offsets: “You go to Africa and you sign poor little black people who cook their food on an open fire and you pay them not to cook their food

Rush Limbaugh comments about sending Judge Sotomayor “a bunch of vacuum cleaners.”

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