Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor (Frances Fox Piven) Threats

New York Times ^ | January 21, 2011 | BRIAN STELTER

[brityank]

Spotlight on Piven’s own words.

Her assertions that “an effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece,” and that “protesters need targets, preferably local and accessible ones,” led Mr. Beck to ask on Fox this week, “Is that not inciting violence? Is that not asking for violence?” Videos of fires in Greece played behind him.

“That is not a call for violence,” Ms. Piven said Friday of the references to riots. “There is a kind of rhetorical trick that is always used to denounce movements of ordinary people, and that is to imply that the massing of people itself is violent.”

So in her twisted mind, the SEIU never gets violent, but the Tea Partiers always do? Riiiiiight !!

Dropped by Discover The Networks org to re-read about the Cloward/Piven Strategy to overwhelm the systems, and found it had been scrubbed! But - the WayBack Machine came to the rescue:

WayBackMachine view of DTN's CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY

Why is DTN they scrubbing valid data? Got Rinos in the briar patch?? Shades of Pogo - "We has met the enemy, and it is us!"

[reaganaut]

I don’t think he is drinking, but he does have an addictive personality and Mormonism fosters that (feelings over facts).

It may not be a chemical addiction at all, or it could be prescription, more likely IMO, he is addicted to the fame and the attention and the ‘feelings’ of Mormonism.

And I totally agree with Grey about the White Horse prophecy and think that Beck and Romeny both think they are the ‘saviors’.

[Scanian]

I haven’t heard that Romney believes in it. Orrin Hatch says that he does.

But I’m waiting for the upcoming primary season when Beck will inevitably come out for Romney-—great-great grandson of Smith’s “apostle” Parley Pratt.

Watching/hearing Beck rationalize that ought to be something to behold.

[jjotto]

any such Messiah would be omnipotent, even in the minds of the Jews

That is certainly an inaccurate statement regarding Jews.

One should not entertain the notion that the King Moshiach must work miracles and wonders, bring about new phenomena within the world, resurrect the dead, or perform other similar deeds. This is [definitely] not true.

[A proof can be brought from the fact that] that Rabbi Akiva, one of the greatest Sages of the Mishnah, was one of the supporters of King Ben Koziva, and would describe him as the King Moshiach. He and all the Sages of his generation considered him to be the King Moshiach until he was killed because of [his] sins. Once he was killed, they realized that he was not [the Moshiach]. The Sages did not ask him for any signs or wonders.

[lonevoice]

Good question, but I doubt it.

[Publius6961]

Interesting thread, if for no other reason than the number of Freepers attacking the messenger personally makes me wonder where they're coming from.
Beck's presentation are either facts or they're not. Haven't seen any real refutation of Beck's central presentations of Fox-Piven.

I never watched ALL of Beck's shows on Fox, but perhaps 80%+ of them and I never, not once, felt he was pushing a Mormon agenda.

How and why (self-styled informed and intelligent) small people can manufacture stuff out of nothing continues to baffle me.