David Brock, Media Matters Head: I'm Going To Call Sarah Palin About Glenn Beck (VIDEO)

Media Matters founder and president David Brock told Lawrence O'Donnell that he is going to call Sarah Palin personally to ask her to distance herself from Glenn Beck.

Speaking on "The Last Word" on Tuesday, Brock said that he thinks Beck has been inciting violence -- most notably in the case of Byron Williams, who targeted the San Francisco-based nonprofit Tides Foundation in July. Many have raised questions about a connection between Beck's repeated denunciations of Tides and Williams' attempt to assassinate employees of the foundation.

Brock, along with Michael Keegan, president of People For The American Way, also wrote a blog post for The Huffington Post on Tuesday, calling for Palin, who is a friend of Beck's and appeared at his "Restoring Honor" rally in late August, to "refudiate" the Fox News host:

...speaking out against the incitement to violence by powerful media outlets ought to be something that transcends the partisan divide. This is a far more serious media matter than Palin's lamentations about the "lamestream media." If Palin does not speak up strongly on this media outrage, the next Byron Williams will succeed and we are going to see another Oklahoma City in this country.

WATCH:

On O'Donnell's show, Brock repeated his call for Palin to "step up" and denounce any politically motivated violence:

"So, Sarah Palin, right now, in our view, needs to step up...she is the one person in this country right now, today, who in the national interest, just in the moment to put partisanship aside, could pull this country back from the precipice of another Oklahoma City. And that's what a real leader does, that's what we're asking...we published this piece this morning. We heard nothing today...if we hear nothing in the morning, I am personally going to call Sarah Palin. I'm going to ask Michael Keegan of PFAW to join me on that call and we're going to make a personal plea to her to stop this insanity."

O'Donnell said that such a move from Palin would be "an absolutely brilliant political posture for [her] to adopt at this moment, in this kind of atmosphere. She would get so much credit for a move like that without costing her anything from her right-wing base."

Comments

[mapmaker515]

04:30 PM on 10/29/2010

Telling Sarah Palin to stay away from Glenn Beck is like telling Sean Hannity to renounce Ronald Reagan. Ain't gonna happen in our lifetime.

[ldmason45]

04:23 PM on 10/29/2010

This brock, media matters (joke) guy is funny in a pathetic kind of way. While I'm sure that the soros hatchett group really cares about Sarah (LOL) do you think she'd give these clowns the time of day ? You are a joke media matters. I bet george is upset that after he bought and paid for you to destroy Beck and FOX News channel that all of your lame attempts fail.

[philszed]

03:09 AM on 10/31/2010

Hey, thas kool. Keep going with all the Koch/Murdoch memes, maybe we'll believe you. It's just that Media Matters got YouTube to nail your Insane Clown Posse's to the wall.

[Devin1818]

03:55 PM on 10/29/2010

How can Sister Sarah criticize a prophet of God?! Beck has already anointed her. He gets visibly excited in her presence and becomes ecstatic at the mention of her name.

[shino]

02:10 PM on 10/29/2010

Show her the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ then maybe maybe she will try if doesn't work maybe more $$$$$$$$$$ lol.

[shino]

02:08 PM on 10/29/2010

She enjoying she loves to see war in America like Afghanistan or Iraq White vs everybody else lol .

[MyOpine]

12:42 PM on 10/29/2010

She won't do it because she'll get nothing financially from it and it keeps her from having to take a stand on the issue nor does she have to think or say something serious about it either. She'll stay mute.

[mollymac]

11:23 AM on 10/29/2010

I feel this tack was inane. Asking a narcissist to do what no-one else can do is like giving heroin to an addict. It is ridiculous to ask SP to do anything. Anything even negative reinforcement, feeds her narcissism. They are both extremely narcissistic and see themselves as vitally important. But they are deeply wounded individuals who need the adulation in order to survive. WOw, what a dumb idea.

[kareemachan]

11:04 AM on 10/29/2010

$arah will never do it. After all, she's the one who started blathering about death camps and had ads with crosshairs over Democrat candidates' names....

[1234j]

06:53 AM on 10/29/2010

You want Sarah to do the right thing. Sarah doesn't do the right thing, ever!

[Jerry Barry]

12:25 AM on 10/29/2010

Tonight, (Oct 28) Beck was angry about this Media Matters Story. Beck asked Palin the question was she going to drop Beck. She said no, she likes what he does.

Beck and Palin are cut from the same cloth and both are nut jobs and need to leave radio and TV shows.
Also, Beck mentioned the San Francisco-based nonprofit Tides Foundation again. You would think Beck would have learnt his lesson about Bryon Willaims was heading to the Tides Building with a hargle cache of guns and weapons.

Palin and Beck are lsoers!

[LisaCACO]

12:03 AM on 10/29/2010

not sure who is giving whom cooties...

[jackbond]

10:14 PM on 10/28/2010

Palin said Obama was palling around with terrorists. That in itself is practically inciting violence. Palin and Beck... two peas in a pod.

[Clevelandinwi]

09:53 PM on 10/28/2010

Pic looks like an ad for 'Dumb and Dumber'.

[phillyangel74]

08:02 PM on 10/28/2010

How about just separating her from America? Remember she and Todd are separtist. They are such patriots, yet they belong to AIP. Put them on a chunk of ice(one that's not melting,no global warming for them) and let em float on far far away.

[abbadabba]

07:34 PM on 10/28/2010

I think folks underestimate the nation wide rage that was exhibited by the guy who flew his plane into the IRS for denying him clearrance to fly into a tax free haven. I wonder where he came up with that idea?

There are over $7 trillion dollars sheltered from taxtion in 501(c)s, and almost anyone can get Uncle Sam to give them a passport to free speech anonymously. I've seen quazi-religious fat farms, now isn't that an impressionable group to soak for more than an hour in a very expensive magic bath? Lot's of rehabs, like Beck's, if it's not frightenning enough there are just Beck's.

Of course many are fine organizations, but many are also nutjobs looking for a way to bring down the country while skipping out on the country. Seriously, you start to try to clean up this system of tax avoidance, you will see more than one commonkazi trying to bring down a government building.