So I think I\u2019ve been unfair to Glenn Beck.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Jeff,\u201d you say, \u201cGlenn Beck is rarely fair to other people. Why should you be fair to him?\u201d Well, dear reader, it\u2019s precisely because I\u2019m not Glenn Beck, and I don\u2019t aspire to be Beckian in the way I conduct myself.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I wrote a post<\/a> about right-wing violence, and in it, I cited a statement by Glenn Beck about \u201cshoot[ing people] in the head.\u201d I wrote, after\u00a0reading an extended transcript<\/a> at Raw Story, that Beck was telling his viewers to shoot liberal politicians in the head. He was not. After reading a longer transcript, it\u2019s clear he was telling\u00a0liberal politicians to shoot liberal activists in the head<\/a>.<\/p>\n Is this better? Probably not, but it is\u00a0different<\/em>, and so I feel I should correct the record. My larger point stands: Beck and others on the right have used violent rhetoric repeatedly in order to whip up supporters, and that has had tragic consequences, and only through good fortune and good police work have those consequences been less horrific. But in this particular case, Beck was not urging his followers to kill politicians, and so for saying he did, I apologize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I think I\u2019ve been unfair to Glenn Beck. \u201cBut Jeff,\u201d you say, \u201cGlenn Beck is rarely fair to other people. Why should you be fair to him?\u201d Well, dear reader, it\u2019s precisely because I\u2019m not Glenn Beck, and I … Continue reading