Ty wrote:
Glen Beck isn't just an annoyance for left wingers. Many right wingers despise him just as much for his overdramatic alarmist rhetoric, his twisting of the truth, his intolerance, his ignorance and his outright stupidity. Beck is offensive to logic, never mind his particular political viewpoints, the man's an ass. He's a shock-jock that a concerning amount of people have taken as genuine.
Beck has the opportunity to relentlessly spew his arguments and rhetoric, he makes false and derogatory claims against those who don't agree with him without giving them the chance to respond. I don't support him and especially his family getting abuse but I can understand why people are angry. Keep poking a caged animal and it's going to be pretty pissed off at you when the bars are finally removed.
Your opinions on his opinions are just that, opinions, that said, he has an opportunity to "spew his rhetoric" because people want to hear what he has to say obviously. If you do not want to hear it, it is very easy to tune him out, literally. There is no reason to understand the violence and to try to reason it in a country where you are free to express your opinions.