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Glenn Beck puts liberal prof.’s life in danger.

The New York Times wrote an article today about Glenn Beck and how he is putting a professor’s life in danger  with his hate speech. I found it interesting.

Frances Fox Piven , a City University of New York professor, has been a primary character in Mr. Beck’s warnings about a progressive take-down of America. Ms. Piven, Mr. Beck says, is responsible for a plan to “intentionally collapse our economic system.”

Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy” on Mr. Beck’s Fox News Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.

Never mind that Ms. Piven’s radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler. Anonymous visitors to his Web site have called for her death, and some, she said, have contacted her directly via e-mail.

In response, a liberal nonprofit group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote to the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, on Thursday to ask him to put a stop to Mr. Beck’s “false accusations” about Ms. Piven.

The argument is that Piven is no longer a radical and that what she wrote 45 years ago shoudn’t make her a threat today. Kind of like Bill Ayers, the softer cuddly side of radicalism; after all they are old people now!

But…she has called for violence as recently as 12-10-2010, in the article she wrote for The Nation: mobilizing-jobless:              

It is clear that this professor is advocating violence. Legally I don’t think she is inciting violence but, does Glenn Beck’s exposure of what Frances Fox Piven said both 40 some years ago and back in December of last year hold him responsible for threats she has received? Is the New York Times being responsible in its journalistic pursuits by presenting the story the way they did?