Beck Follower Threatens Twitter User

This was a developing issue over the weekend.

A Twitter user and anti-Beck activist ( @stopbeck ) was threatened with violence because of his tireless crusade to expose Glenn Beck for the hatemongerer he is and to persuade all those that advertised on his program remove their support. So far, his actions have brought a great deal of success.

Laffy at The Political Carnival has more.

The level of hostility and hatred is out of hand. It started to rev up over the summer with the gun-toting, screaming, out of control Tea Tantrumers at town hall meetings. It has crescendoed ever since.

How can there be any expectation of achieving any sort of rational communication when wingnuts such as @vatopdog persist in drowning out civil discourse with outright threats, slurs, bigotry, hate speech, racism, and extremism?

Here is a picture of the man known as @vatopdog, Larry Herrin. His MySpace page shows that he is from Virginia. There are no updates, blogs, or comments on his page, but there is a link to a web-cam that doesn't seem to be working right now.

I'm doing a little more digging on this one, but it looks like there's sparse information on his out there. Also, he has his Twitter timeline protected, so you will have to add him to your follow list to check out his inane ramblings - something I wouldn't exactly recommend.

ByeSpace?

I can remember when I first signed-up for MySpace back in 2004. It was fun, a great way to meet people and check out bands and artists, but it soon became so overtly commercialized that it was disgusting. I rarely, if ever, check my page anymore and most of the people I associated with there have long since moved on to Facebook. And now, with MySpace's CEO leaving, one can but wonder how much longer the site can survive.

After signing on last April, Van Natta wisely acknowledged this change in how people were using MySpace — as a media site rather than as a social network — by doubling down on the ad-supported MySpace Music service. However, the company was not able to fix problems with the service including poor integration with existing band pages, which left many users confused or uninterested in the service.

According to an Ad Age source, Van Natta bailed on MySpace because he was frustrated by the company’s “slow pace of change” and “entrenched culture.” A dearth of fast, competent, loyal software engineers in the Los Angeles area reportedly slowed things down even further. MySpace is headquartered in Beverly Hills, in southern California. Facebook, which evolves its design and feature set so often that some users can’t keep up with the changes, is located in the more technology-oriented Palo Alto, California.

This may be the wrong way to look at this, but there seems to be a correlation between Murdock's NewsCorp purchasing MySpace and the sites decline. The very "tabloid" nature of much of MySpace's content only solidifies this theory, as NewsCorp is the parent company that owns Fox"News" and the NYPost - both very tabloid in how they approach their subject matter.

So here's the question - how much life is left in MySpace?

Beck's Militant Fanbase Begins To Reveal Itself

In yet another example of the insane rhetoric and lies of the fringe conservative Right fanning the flames of idiocy within their viewing audience, Nancy Genovese ( and rabid Glenn Beck fan ) was arrested at the Air National Guard base in the Hamptons.

A Long Island mother of three -- armed to the teeth with an assault rifle and shotgun -- was arrested for scouting out and taking pictures of an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons, authorities said.

Suffolk County Undersheriff Joseph Caracappa said Nancy Genovese, 53, of Quogue, was arrested for trespassing outside the Gabreskie Airport ANG facility Thursday night, and Homeland Security and the FBI are also investigating.

Taking a brief look at groups Genovese also aligns herself with, they don't all seem to gel with her ideological bent.

The self-described White Rose Society takes it's name from the intellectual resistance movement in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s. The webiste does contain elements that would fit into Genovese's viewpoints, but they also appear to be anti-Fox"News" at the same time.

More from The New York Post.

Genovese's MySpace blog is something to truly marvel at. From topics such as FEMA, her fear of the US Census, as well as posting videos urging military and police personel to be wary that there are going to be orders passed down for them to confiscate people's guns, there is quite the glut of insanity to pour through.

Had she not been arrested, one can only speculate on how she would have taken Becks comments that the Obama administration is using the "Cash For Clunkers" program to monitor your home computer ( will be posting more on that topic later today ).

Skimming through her Twitter timeline, it becomes clear that she follows along with the "Tea Baggery" nonsense and may be prone to fits of rage while watching TV:

Is picking up the 100 aspirin that spilled all over the floor after tossing it at the O man on TV!
10:16 AM May 21st from web

The Gov'ment has their fake "NATIONAL EMERGENCY" Enuf to gain more control over the masses enuf to remove rights CDC is not updating H1N1!
1:53 AM May 2nd from web

The TEA parties were a success!!!
7:23 PM Apr 20th from web

Other groups she aligns herself with openly advocate for the impeachment of Obama, as well as subscribe to birther, and 9/11 conspiracy theory. And, not suprisingly, two people that keep showing up in each of these groups are Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. Glowing praise is heaped upon each of them. It's quite an interesting, yet disturbing, series of pages to read.

More from Daily Kos

This Kid Needs A Longhorn Up His Ass

It's stories like this that kind of invalidate all the "you can't call people racists anymore" clap-trap that we are hearing at increasing intervals from the conservative-right

A template on facebook.com asks, “What are you doing right now?” An ill-advised response led to Buck Burnette’s expulsion from the University of Texas football team.

What began as a private text-message exchange on Election Night between Burnette and a friend soon became available for anybody with a computer to see.

Burnette, a sophomore offensive lineman from Wimberley, was dismissed from the team Nov. 5 for posting a racially insensitive remark about President-elect Barack Obama on his Facebook page.....

In the status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All the hunters gather up, we have a (slur) in the White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming the first African-American elected to the presidency. Burnette said the comment was a text message he received from a friend and that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page. He later apologized in a written note that was read by Brown during a team meeting.

More here from Chron.com Sports

The story goes on to almost hint that it is social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace that are at the root of the problem.

While projecting your own ignorance - or that of a teammate - onto something else doens't solve the issue at hand, I'm wondering why this clown is still even in school. The Secret Service has every right to investigate statements such as these, and have in many instances.

A Spy From The NY Post?!?!

Rupert Murdock is a businessman.

He's also unblushingly conservative.

He owns many papers in the US and abroad, as well as television stations, movie-production companies, and MySpace.

Keith Olbermann works for MSNBC.

He doesn't like Rupert Murdock, NewsCorp, Fox"News" or anything owned by Murdock.

He's obviously a progressive type-of-guy and approaches stories on his show with jounalistic integrity that his many detractors only wish they could possess.

The NYPost ( Page 6 ) ran this story about Olbermann, MSNBC, and MySpace:

KEITH Olbermann is again being an embarrassment to MSNBC. The cable channel and MySpace have teamed up to choose two "citizen journalist" correspondents to cover the upcoming national political conventions. The "journalists" will be featured both on MySpace and MSNBC's campaign coverage. A spy said, "Every anchor is onboard and willing to play along, except Keith. He refuses to participate because MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp." - which also owns Fox News and The Post. A rep for Olbermann said, "There are no plans for the contest winners to be on any programs other than 'Morning Joe.' "

A spy? Did I read that right, a spy?!?!

Wow, I mean, are we talking 007 style or just some intern that Rich Johnson paid $20 to under-the-table to find something out? Was it made up?

I'm opting for the latter.

This is not the first time that "Page 6" has tried to create a controversy around Olbermann. There's been a longtime rivalry between Olbermann and everyone in Murdock's NewsCorp empire, but to try and paint the man as an "embarassment" simply because he doesn't want anything to do with a NewsCorp-owned company is pretty lame.