Frank Beckmann Weighed in on the Giffords Shooting & "Despicable Critisms" Against Talk Radio

Response to Frank Beckmann on his Radio Show concerning the the shooting of US Rep Gifford and attacks on conservative radio talk show hosts.

Frank objects to the attacks upon the "talk show" crowd and their strident opines; critics saying that "harsh speak" from far right hosts may have ginned up the atmosphere prevailing prior to the killings in Tucson and since. We're being unfairly attacked, says Frank.

BECKMANN: They do it to us, to defend ourselves we must do it back.

This EXTENDS the endless cycle of violent abuse of civility.

We, like goldfish, live EMERSED in a total environment permeated with TALK , too much talk.

It's "TALK" that is making big money for Fox and Limbaugh et al. Harsh talk, and DISRESPECTFUL argument, ad hominem "ACCUSATORY TALK THAT IS CONTINUING TO ESCALATE - to the point of civil breakdown.

The Country once talked and wrote itself into the Civil War which was a stupendous and stupid display of animal-like carnage and destruction: An ugly dagger in the heart of every person believing in "American Exceptionalism."

Decades of diatribes and fiery accusations resulted in ill-will that led directly to civil war.
The written word also stoked the sparks of conflagration. Abe Lincoln addressed Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Words do count, words do inflame, words do incite to kill!

The secession of South Carolina and the attack on Ft. Sumter were THE DIRECT RESULT OF DECADES OF ESCALATING TALK, RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE, AND HARSH RHETORICAL RHETORIC BY "PATRIOTS" IN CONGRESS - hotheads who always "Gave as good as they Got."

We were invited into THE AMERICAN "CULTURAL WAR" by Pat Buchanan at Houston's GOP National Convention, 1992.

GOD HELP US IF WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO TALKING OURSELVES INTO THE new "CIVIL WAR" mentioned recently by so many - intent on having their ideologies "win" a political victory over those of others they disdain and disavow at whatever cost.

BECKMANN: "Conservative talk radio will survive the dishonest assaults and will not waver from its support of the Constitution, law enforcement and open political debate."

In other words, BECKMANN; Diatribes Forever?

How very sad !

Pray God touches Frank's heart of stone.


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