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Glenn Beck's Incendiary Rhetoric Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 27, 2010.

Right-wing media, led by Beck, continue to stoke dangerous fires with relentlessly incendiary rhetoric. We will see more tries at vigilante violence.

Fox News, Health Care, and the Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. March 26, 2010.

How did health care go so terribly wrong for the Tea Party's true believers? They made the mistake of believing their own hype -- and Fox News.

Hightower: Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. March 19, 2010.

How billionaires' money took over Washington -- and created the mobs who rant against reform.

The Right's Inability to Grasp Climate Change May Be Funny, But It's Also Very Dangerous

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. February 12, 2010.

The so-called Snowpocalypse has brought out the funny bone in the right-wing media, but their inability to correctly draw causal connections is very dangerous.

Right-Wing Media Spin the Conservative Activist James O'Keefe's Crime

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. February 1, 2010.

Conservative media have not completely abandoned O'Keefe, despite his idiotic, criminal stunt.

Year in Review: 2009 Right-Wing Lie Machine Amped Up the Obama Madness (VIDEO)

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 18, 2009.

Obama Derangement Syndrome comes from the top-down.

Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. September 30, 2009.

The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.

'I Quit the Evangelical Movement in Disgust': Former Evangelist Fears Right-Wing Lunacy Will Lead to More Murder

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. July 1, 2009.

Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers must try to cure the sickness of their right-wing followers -- before it explodes again. Or don't they care?

Michael Savage Feels Oppressed

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. June 18, 2009.

The shock jock is worried that the "Christian heterosexual married male" is under attack.

Does Glenn Beck Even Know What Glenn Beck Says?

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. June 17, 2009.

Why can't Beck stop making stuff up?

Facebook Group Highlighting Michael Savage/Rockstar Connection Censored

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.

Facebook took down a group publicizing the link between Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink.

Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 8, 2009.

"Fox Nation", a website that's the newest addition to Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, deliberately misleads readers.

Is Bill O'Reilly Spawning Killers?

Nathan Robinson, AlterNet. June 4, 2009.

O'Reilly turns political spats into "moral" crusades and his opponents into monsters -- an extremist worldview that leads to violence.

The Passion of Glenn Beck: Why Have "Manly" Conservatives Embraced a Man Who Cries?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. April 10, 2009.

Are Beck's crazy antics the logical conclusion of conservatives' grievance-based ideology? Or something else entirely?