Glenn Beck's Anti-Violence Pledge:

A Transparent Trap For Democrats

January 11, 2011 4:53 pm ET by Matt Gertz

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101110036

Politico reports that Fox News producer Virginia Grace is "reaching out to members of
Congress to try to get them to sign on to the pledge denouncing violence that Glenn
Beck unveiled on the air yesterday." In the email, Grace states that Beck will "publicize
the list of participating members tonight on our show as a message of unity."

(As an aside, according to her LinkedIn page, before working for noted unifiers Glenn
Beck and Fox News, Grace was an aide to then-Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN)
and the far-right Club for Growth.)

It's pretty easy to predict what's about to happen. Democratic members of Congress,
who likely realize that Beck is toxic, won't sign on to his letter; conservative
Republicans, who love/fear Beck, will do so.

Beck will probably spend this evening's program alternatively feigning shock that any
member of Congress would refuse to sign his pledge, and attacking them for their
failure to do so, while praising the members of the Beck Caucus who have signed on.
He will ask what in the pledge they could possibly object to. He will suggest that the
real reason Democratic members of Congress won't sign on is because they refuse to
denounce the Cloward/Piven strategy, or because they don't want to alienate their
supposedly violent union allies. He will demand to know how anyone could possibly
accuse conservatives of violent rhetoric when they are willing to sign his pledge.

In reality, Democrats will be refusing to sign the pledge for two reasons:

1) As noted above, Beck is a cancer upon the body politic who constantly uses violent
rhetoric, race-baits, and furthers bizarre conspiracy theories.

2) Part of the pledge implicitly slams virtually every Democratic member of Congress,
along with President Obama, and conflates them with violent revolutionaries.

The pledge states:

I challenge all Americans, left or right, regardless if you're a politician, pundit, painter,
priest, parishioner, poet or porn star to agree with all of the following.

 I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation.

 I denounce anyone, from the Left, the Right or middle, who believes
physical violence is the answer to whatever they feel is wrong with our
country.
  I denounce those who wish to tear down our system and rebuild
it in their own image, whatever that image may be.
 I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle, who call for riots and
violence as an opportunity to bring down and reconstruct our system.
 I denounce violent threats and calls for the destruction of our system --
regardless of their underlying ideology -- whether they come from the
Hutaree Militia or Frances Fox Piven.
 I hold those responsible for the violence, responsible for the violence. I
denounce those who attempt to blame political opponents for the acts of
madmen.
 I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle that sees violence as
a viable alternative to our long established system of change made within
the constraints of our constitutional Republic.

I will stand with anyone willing to sign that pledge. Today I make a personal choice. I
urge leaders of both sides and all walks of life to join me as all Americans joined hands
on 9.12.2001.

Note how "those who wish to tear down the system and rebuild it in their own image"
are just as bad as those who "call for riots and violence to bring down and reconstruct
our system" and those who make "violent threats." Who has Beck accused of trying "to
tear down the system and rebuild it in their own image"? Basically every Democratic
member of Congress along with the President of the United States.

You see, according to Beck, Democrats, led by President Obama, have spent the last
two years embarking on a mission of "fundamental transformation" of the United
States. Pivoting off Obama's statement during the presidential campaign that "we are
five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," Beck
has claimed that "fundamental transformation" means "collapsing the system as we
know it and rebooting it as a progressive utopia." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 1/5/10, via
Nexis] Beck has said this purported effort must be stopped in order to "save the
republic." [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 7/31/09, via Nexis]

In March, right before every single Democratic senator and the vast majority of
Democratic members of Congress passed historic health care reform, Beck declared, "If
this passes, the fundamental transformation of America is complete."

I can't imagine why anyone would accuse Beck of "playing politics."

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Editorial Note: Only a person that sees violence as a legitimate method to achieve a
political end would refuse to sign this pledge. Oh, and Marxist radicals and terrorists.
I'm just sayin'...

Anyway, I chose Soros Mutters, I mean Media Smatters, I mean Media Spinsters, oh
whatever, anyway I chose them because there's no doubt Soros was tipped off about
this early on in order to have a "response" ready on the very day Beck revealed it on
01-11-11.
No reasonable person should have a reservation about this pledge. There's no "trap"
that the paranoids at Soros' offices apparently see. It's simple and straightforward in
plain English. There’s nothing hidden. There’s no secret satanic “traps” in this pledge.
There’s nothing requiring a secret squirrel decoder ring to read, I promise.

If you're against the tragedy that happened in AZ, sign the pledge. If you're against
"killin' cracka's", sign the pledge. If you're against killing cops, sign the pledge. If you're
against flying airplanes into buildings, blowing up police stations and shooting up
churches, sign the pledge. If you're against Timothy McVeigh's actions, sign the pledge!

A refusal to sign a pledge like this, which is very similar to Martin Luther King Jr’s non-
violence pledge, is cowardly and an affirmation that you aren’t willing to take that
option off the table.

Oh, also take note of which line they put in bold. It just happens to be the very one
that Marx and Lenin advocated to achieve political power. Again, I'm just sayin'...

PRM