I know Markos Moulitsas is shrill and all, but this transcript from a show Glenn Beck did last June is pretty unambiguous:
I will stand against you and so will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most in Washington don’t. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and brought in wearing sheep’s clothing — change the pose. You will get the ends.
You’ve been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You’re going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.
They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them — they’re revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.
Moulitsas actually cut off the last paragraph of the transcript in his post, but I think that’s the most disturbing part. Until then Beck is talking in fairly abstract terms about “radicals” and “revolutionaries,” it’s only later that he connects the people “you’re going to have to shoot in the head” with an actual sitting member of Congress.
It’s not incitement, and it doesn’t mean conservatives are “responsible” for the Tucson shooting. But it does fit neatly into what Bill Clinton said in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, about people “leav[ing] the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.” It’s not a crime, it’s not the end of the Republic, but it’s the kind of statement that has disturbing implications if taken at face value.
