Glenn Beck inveighs against political violence:

“But here’s the thing I’m concerned about,” Beck said. “Your interaction with them needs to be respectful, polite, forceful, and peaceful. I’ve been warning Congress for a couple of years, and the time has come and passed for them to be able to learn from this. I’ve been telling them, ‘You have to listen to the people,’ or they’ll be in real big trouble. Well, now let me give the warning to you. If anybody thinks it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again. It would be destroy the republic. I feel it with everything in me.” …

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There is no excuse for violence,” the host said. Only a “crazy person” picks up a gun to register political protest. He concluded, “If you ever hear someone talking about, or thinking about, turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them. The only way to save our republic is to remain peaceful. Forceful, but peaceful.”

Quoth Steve Benen:

The bad news is, Beck’s wild-eyed on-air tirades probably made the pronouncement necessary.

Yep. What, you thought the OUTRAGE!!! just dissipates into the ether?