Back in April, Glenn Beck said the following:

...he will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun. He will make them more expensive; he'll tax them out of existence. He will because he has said he would. He will tax you gun or take your gun away one way or another.

Earlier in that same month, Beck called the U.S. government fascist and not so subtly compared President Obama to Adolph Hitler.





He has been even clearer in the past, talking about Obama with nazi footage playing behind him:





Now Beck is reiterating his Obama/Hitler comparisons as well as his fear-mongering claims that Obama plans to steal all your guns:

Gun sales are going up through the roof. And let me tell you something, I really truly believe the reason why a lot of Americans aren't paying attention to this is because they -- does anybody remember the poem, you know, first they came for the Jews and I didn't stand up because I wasn't a Jew? Do you know that from Germany?

In the end, I think this is the problem. First, they came for the banks. I wasn't a banker. I didn't really care. I didn't stand up and say anything.

Then they came for the AIG executives. Then they came for the car companies and I didn't say anything.

Until it gets down to you. Most people don't see they are coming for you at some point. You're on the list. Everybody's on the list.

Some people want to think of Beck as a crazy goofball and just write him off. They picture him like this old sketch from The Kids in the Hall:





Writing Beck off like that is dangerous. People listen to this guy. His words incite violence. Beck is no idiotic looney like the character Dave Foley portrays, nor is he Father Charles Coughlin. After all, Coughlin was basically a fascist while Beck is...an ex morning-drive DJ radio personality who discovered that there was more money and fame to be had in political radio.

As I have noted before, right-wing hate rhetoric has consequences. Spreading fear and hate like this provokes violence. Beck knows this...he just doesn't care. He cares about ratings.