Frances Fox Piven defies death threats after taunts by anchorman Glenn Beck

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Frances Fox Piven is not going into hiding. Not yet.

The 78-year-old leftwing academic is the latest hate figure for Fox News host Glenn Beck and his legion of fans. While she has decided to shrug off the inevitable death threats that have followed, she is well aware of the problem. "I don't know if I am scared, but I am worried," she told the Observer as she sat in a bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

"At the start I thought it was funny, but now I know that is dangerous... their paranoia works better when they can imagine a devil. Now that devil is me."

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It is typical of Piven. The spry, twinkle-eyed academic pulls no punches when talking of Beck. "He is a very neurotic and peculiar type of person. I don't think he is capable of sane discussion," she said. And his supporters? "They creep me out."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/30/frances-fox-piven-glenn-beck

[cali]

1. Beck is NOT an anchorman.

[Turbineguy]

2. Funny headline

In the academic context Beck is the anchorman. The lowest in class.

[molly77]

3. Beck and Breitbart should be in jail.

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