HuffPo - Cesca Notes Glen Beck v. Glen Beck In Holding Media Responsible For Resulting Violent Acts

[Median Democrat]

Here is a great article noting the hypocrisy of far right media in attacking video games, musicians, and other pop culture for irresponsibly promoting violence, yet also disclaiming their responsibility for recent attacks by right wingers. I guess a different set of rules simply applies to them:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/glenn-beck-and-the-conseq_b_184936.html

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To wit: on the Monday edition of his FOX News show, Glenn Beck was outraged that anyone would look to his militaristic rants and crying jags -- specifically his Obama-is-coming-for-our-guns hysteria -- as a possible contributing factor in last weekend's Pittsburgh shooting spree during which an ultra-far-right maniac murdered several police officers in cold blood because he feared his guns would be taken away by President Obama:

"Blaming anyone except the nut job for what happened in Pittsburgh is crazy."

Okay, but here's the problem. The Glenn Beck who said this on Monday is clearly at odds with the Glenn Beck of Spring 2008 who blamed the video game Grand Theft Auto for "training our kids to be killers" and "our sons to treat women like whores."

I'm confused. I thought that blaming anyone except the "nut jobs" would be "crazy."

Although to be fair, maybe he wasn't really blaming video games after all. Glenn Beck of 2008 said:

I wanna make one thing clear before we go any further. I am not blaming all of society's problems on video games. That would be stupid to do.
Phew! That was close. For a second there, I thought he was going to say something really stupid.

It is the entire pop culture. It's music, it's movies, it's radio, it's television, it's all of it!
All of it! Not the "nut jobs." All of pop culture. In fact, Glenn Beck of 2008 didn't even mention "nut jobs" or the like during this particular rant. The entire pop culture is to blame for all of society's problems -- including the two forms of media in which Glenn Beck (both of them) works. Beck of 2008 went on to cite an American Medical Association report indicating that television alone caused a doubling of the homicide rate in America.

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[Peacetrain]

1. Good Catch!!!

[tanyev]

2. Stephen Colbert had a brilliant Glenn Beck vs Glenn Beck piece.

Glenn Beck's weepy 9/12 project vs Glenn Beck "I hate the 9/11 families". Thank you, Stephen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/stephen-colbert-rips-apar_n_181673.html