Glenn Beck is vile, but Digby, come on:
Right wing radio is hate radio. And Glenn Beck is fucking lunatic. And they reach many millions of people every day. Will any of those people act? Well, they already have on an individual basis. But this daily ranting about the evil of liberalism and the inhumanity of liberals seems to finally be reaching some sort of critical mass in which those on the right who hear nothing but this sort of raving all day long have come to believe that liberals -- not liberalism -- must be eliminated. I realize that we won't have teabaggers running across the countryside lopping off people's hands with machetes. But the sentiment that drives people like Beck and Limbaugh isn't all that different, even though the worst we've seen are spit spewing screamers at Townhalls and a few cases of head stomping and false arrest. So far. This cannot end well.
Dude, more people died in the Rwandan Genocide than the Civil War. It takes an epic level of self-pity to imagine we're somehow on the verge of something similar because a clown like Beck has a TV show. I realize there's an obligatory disclaimer, but the easy way not to sound ridiculous is not to imply a comparison in the first place. There isn't much difference between this and Rand Paul arguing that he's not comparing Obama to Hitler but let's not forget how deficits led to the Nazis taking over in Germany.
