Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats

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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Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats

I’m guessing that a few *meat-heads* will call me a Glenn Beck supporting wingnut over this one, but let me make something VERY clear: I don’t like Glenn Beck.

I used to really enjoy his OLD radio program. Beck was the only reason I ever switched the TV to *that other station*, and when Beck went to FOX News, I was a happy camper! I was going to get to see Beck on friendly territory.

Then Beck began to take himself seriously.

Bring on the tears, and the preaching. He went from being a great political entertainer to being a rather creepy, and disgusting television preacher, preying on the right and their desperate need for a Conservative leader in this time of Obama.

As much as I personally dislike Glenn Beck, and a couple of other Conservative, so-called icons, I have never heard Beck utter a threat. I have never heard him call for the death of ANYONE, not even the worst foreign enemies of America.

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.

So, Beck talks about Frances Fox Piven and the Cloward-Piven Plan, a liberal ideal that is still supported today, Piven gets anonymous death threats and unwanted email, yet, somehow, Glenn Beck is the responsible party?

For those not fully aware of Cloward-Piven, here is a brief thumbnail, with details at the link.

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, then both sociologists and political activists at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in a 1966 article in The Nation entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty”. The two argued that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would create a political crisis that would force U.S. politicians, particularly the Democratic Party, to enact legislation “establishing a guaranteed national income.” SOURCE

To make ALL Americans equal monetarily via a guaranteed national income? Hmmm, Isn’t that called SOCIALISM? By any other name? Isn’t that socialism in it’s purest form?

Beck speaks out against a continuing liberal plan, even if it was hatched 40 some odd years ago, and suddenly he’s responsible, personally responsible, for Piven getting threats? What’s next? Is the left going to accuse Beck of being responsible for the shootings in Tucson as well?

Oh…wait… I’m sorry, they already HAVE…

In response, a liberal nonprofit group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote to the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, on Thursday to ask him to put a stop to Mr. Beck’s “false accusations” about Ms. Piven.

“Mr. Beck is putting Professor Piven in actual physical danger of a violent response,” the group wrote.

In typical libber fashion, BECK has placed Piven in danger by his speaking out against her plan for total national Socialism.

There is something that the left needs to hear, over and over, repeatedly, on a daily basis, several times a day: THE TRUTH IS NOT HATE SPEECH! The libber mindset won’t be able to grasp it, but they should…

Fox News disagrees. Joel Cheatwood, a senior vice president, said Friday that Mr. Beck would not be ordered to stop talking about Ms. Piven on television. He said Mr. Beck had quoted her accurately and had never threatened her.

“ ‘The Glenn Beck Program,’ probably above and beyond any on television, has denounced violence repeatedly,” Mr. Cheatwood said.

He said he had no knowledge of the threats against Ms. Piven, and noted that The Blaze was operated independently of Fox News.

IF Glenn Beck had even subtly intimated, in a veiled threat, that Piven was in need of a *visit*, the law suits and restraining order would be flying fast and furious.

And again I say, the TRUTH is NOT hate speech.

In Mr. Beck’s telling on a Fox broadcast on Jan. 5, 2010, Ms. Piven and Mr. Cloward (who died in 2001) planned “to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse.” Mr. Beck observed that the number of welfare recipients soared in the years after the article, and said the article was like “economic sabotage.”

He linked what he termed the Cloward-Piven Strategy to President Obama’s statement late in the 2008 presidential campaign that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

As much as it grates on my nerves to have to defend Glenn Beck, I must say, Beck is 100% right on target in his assessment of the reality that is, to this very day, known as Cloward-Piven.

Mr. Beck has invoked Ms. Piven dozens of times since. Conservative Web sites, like the ones operated by Andrew Breitbart, have also spent time dissecting her articles and speeches.

And the bottom line is still this, after all of that dissection, Piven is a despicable socialist TWIT.

Ms. Piven came under additional scrutiny when she wrote in the liberal magazine The Nation this month that unemployed people should be staging mass protests.

Piven calls for MASS protests by the unemployed? Yeah, that’s going to go well. Given the lefts propensity for peaceful protests and calm, focused, well-reasoned debate, I’m sure that MASS protest would be the perfect solution. Yes, that was sarcasm…

Regarding comments on The Blaze:

One such threat, published as an anonymous comment on The Blaze, read, “Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas ready and I’ll give My life to take Our freedom back.” (The spelling and capitalizing have not been changed.)

That comment and others that were direct threats were later deleted, but other comments remain that charge her with treasonous behavior.

So, Beck’s people deleted the so-called hate speech comments, and comments that called for violence, yet it is still ALL Beck’s fault that Piven received some anonymous threats.

If Beck has comment makers that believe Piven is a treasonous moonbat, that is their opinion and not necessarily the opinion of the blog or site owner.

My blog only gets a fraction of a the traffic Beck’s blog does, it’s easy to keep the weird and crazy comments out of my blog, I moderate closely. I can’t begin to imagine the effort that would go into keeping stupid or dangerous comments off of a blog the size of The Blaze.

To Glenn Beck, go back to being YOU, the YOU that came to FOX News and lit up the world. Lose the tears and drama, lose the spiritual leader persona and go back to being the Beck that got you the job.

Beck did a hell of a job a while back, he needs to keep hammering people like Obama, his regime, Piven and a world of other socialists and communists. He just needs to do it in a far less PIOUS manner.

If I wanted to hear a preacher, I’d go to a church. There is a HUGE segment of real Conservative patriots that feel the same way!