"Go Kill Liberals!"
I wonder if Glenn Beck knows who Jim Adkisson is. Adkisson made headlines
on July 28, 2008, when he brought his sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun into the
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee,
and, after whipping it out of a guitar case, opened fire on parishioners while
a group of schoolchildren performed songs up by the altar. Adkisson killed
two people and wounded several others.
Adkisson, a 58-year-old unemployed truck driver, brought 70 shotgun shells
with him to the church and assumed he'd keep killing until the police arrived
on the scene and shot him dead as well. Instead, some members of the
congregation were able to wrestle him to the ground and hold him for police.
When investigators went to Adkisson's home in search of a motive, as well
as evidence for the pending trial, they found copies of Savage's
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, and
The O'Reilly Factor, by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. They also came across
what was supposed to have been Adkisson's suicide note: a handwritten,
four-page manifesto explaining his murderous actions. The one-word answer
for his deed? Hate. The three-word answer? He hated liberals.
The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is kill them in the streets.
Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people
to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just Kill
yourself. Do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals!
What Adkisson especially hated about liberals ("this cancer, this pestilence")
and what he hated about candidate "Osama Hussein Obama" was that they
were marching America toward ruin: "Liberals are evil, they embrace the
tenets of Karl Marx, they're Marxist, socialist, communists." Adkisson
seethed over the way liberals were "trying to turn this country into a
communist state" and couldn't comprehend why they would "embrace
Marxism."
Sound familiar, Glenn?
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200904070009?f=h_column
I wonder if Glenn Beck knows who Jim Adkisson is. Adkisson made headlines
on July 28, 2008, when he brought his sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun into the
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee,
and, after whipping it out of a guitar case, opened fire on parishioners while
a group of schoolchildren performed songs up by the altar. Adkisson killed
two people and wounded several others.
Adkisson, a 58-year-old unemployed truck driver, brought 70 shotgun shells
with him to the church and assumed he'd keep killing until the police arrived
on the scene and shot him dead as well. Instead, some members of the
congregation were able to wrestle him to the ground and hold him for police.
When investigators went to Adkisson's home in search of a motive, as well
as evidence for the pending trial, they found copies of Savage's
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, Let Freedom Ring by Sean Hannity, and
The O'Reilly Factor, by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. They also came across
what was supposed to have been Adkisson's suicide note: a handwritten,
four-page manifesto explaining his murderous actions. The one-word answer
for his deed? Hate. The three-word answer? He hated liberals.
The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is kill them in the streets.
Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people
to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just Kill
yourself. Do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals!
What Adkisson especially hated about liberals ("this cancer, this pestilence")
and what he hated about candidate "Osama Hussein Obama" was that they
were marching America toward ruin: "Liberals are evil, they embrace the
tenets of Karl Marx, they're Marxist, socialist, communists." Adkisson
seethed over the way liberals were "trying to turn this country into a
communist state" and couldn't comprehend why they would "embrace
Marxism."
Sound familiar, Glenn?
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200904070009?f=h_column
