Transcript of Glenn Beck’s ‘Shoot Them in the Head’ Comments

by Donald Douglas | January 21, 2011 7:03 pm

Part of the initial explanation for leftist’s jumping the gun (metaphor) on the news of the Tucson shooting is that the Democrat-Socialists have been so thoroughly repudiated at the polls. Daniel Henninger argued at the Wall Street Journal[1] that last November “was no ordinary election. What voters did has the potential to change the content and direction of the U.S. political system, possibly for a generation.”

This reality will be the driving fact of life in politics over the next couple of years, and as William Jacobson pointed out — and Rush Limbaugh reiterated[2] on the air — we now have a foretaste of the kinds of progressive delegitimation campaigns that will be deployed for Obama’s reelection efforts. And recall, a majority of Democrats continue to believe that Sarah Palin was at least partially responsible for the shooting[3]. So it pays to remember that the left is working on a program of lies, disinformation, and propaganda.

The latest example is the next iteration of the left’s campaign to destroy Glenn Beck. Patterico decimated Charles Johnson’s anti-Beck smears yesterday, “No, Charles Johnson, Glenn Beck Did Not Tell His Viewers to Shoot Anyone in the Head[4].” But the story’s still trending at Memeorandum[5]. And even though the full transcript proves that Beck’s segment was pure commentary on the left’s neo-communism — and the buyer’s remorse of the Democrats’ progressive base — dishonest leftist[6] bloggers continue to allege that right-wing rhetoric is causing outbreaks of violence. But a simple perusal of the transcript[7] reveals perfectly that Beck was warning elected Democrats that the violent progressive proletariat had them in the crosshairs:

I want to warn you now, Democrats, your party is over. And I don’t mean – all tea parties and Republicans are going to beat you in November. I mean the Democrats, as we used to know them, the Democrats that were in my family growing up, are over.

I’m going to show you the civil war, the video evidence in the civil war in the Democratic Party that’s happening right now. And no one in the media is exposing it. And it is dangerous, what is happening.

The radicals have infected the party. They have been brought in by politicians who don’t really care about anything. They just want to win. They’ve been tolerating the revolutionaries – the Democrats have.

But more importantly, the revolutionaries have been tolerating those politicians. For the moment, the radical fringe of the party is now. Just today, Van Jones was speaking at America’s Future Now conference.

He is speaking to a group of progressives. I find this extraordinarily disturbing, because I believe this man is sending a message. Listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISER FOR GREEN JOBS: I think that when we look back to the history of the Obama administration and look back at the history of our progressive movement, that this week will mark a historic inflection point when progressives decided to be progressive again in this country. I think something shifted this week.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Yes, it has. It has. This is an ominous statement coming from a revolutionary. Please go to GlennBeck.com[8] and look up “STORM: Reclaiming Revolution.” This is his organization. He is in this. From a revolutionary.

I’m sorry but when did the Obama administration not be progressive? Excuse me? They were normal? We have seen progressives. We haven’t seen the actual spooky progressives yet. I think you are about to. Something has changed this week. He’s right.

But what the politicians don’t understand, the ones who have co-opted these revolutionaries and brought them in the process, is they are dangerous. Why? Why? Well, because a lot of them have called for violent revolution in the past and they never distanced themselves from it.

You cannot co-opt and lie to people who believe in something. Why is Ahmadinejad dangerous? Well, because he says he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, OK? The press and the politicians – “Oh, he’s just saying that.”

Why do they say that? Because nobody in the press and nobody in Washington actually believes a damn thing, except their own image. That’s it. This man is a twelver. Look it up. Do you know what it is? It’s a revolutionary so dangerous that the Ayatollah Khomeini banned twelvers.

OK. Here’s the Ayatollah Khomeini, who is a revolutionary – he says stay away from these guys. They’re spooky. He didn’t co-opt them because he understood they believed in the 12th Imam coming back, and the way to bring the 12th Imam back is wash the world in blood.

There are politicians like the Ayatollah Khomeini who will do revolution for power. And then there are people like this who are mad men. I never thought I’d say we better learn something from the Ayatollah Khomeini, but here it is.

The media and the politician have all of this wrong. In every single walk of life – you want to know why TV doesn’t reflect you? You want to know why Washington doesn’t reflect you? Because they don’t understand, from the radical revolutionaries to the Islamic extremists – and yes, DOJ, they do exist – to the Tea Party movements.

Just because you in Washington and you who are so out of touch with life in the media, just because you don’t believe in anything doesn’t mean nobody else does. We do. You know why you’re confused by this show? It’s because I believe in something. You don’t.

Tea parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government.

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.

Here is my advice when you’re dealing with people who believe in something that strongly – you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say.

Didn’t we learn that lesson from Usama bin Laden? I heard his warning in 1998. I said on the air at the time, listen to him. We didn’t listen. We didn’t listen to the revolutionaries in Germany, the revolutionaries in Russia or Venezuela or Cuba – no, no, no. They all have one thing in common. They have all called for revolution.

They want to overthrow our entire system of government, and their words say it. Why won’t you believe it?

The passage at the video is highlighted in bold italics at the fifth paragraph from the end of the blockquote.

Glenn Beck isn’t inciting violence. He’s warning, quite powerfully, of the growing and potentially violent unrest that’s brewing among the announced revolutionaries of the progressive base.

Cross-posted from American Power[9].