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David Frum published a piece on the violence the "reckless right" is fomenting. His point is that irresponsible and hysterical jingoists like Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity are using incindiary language and dangerous extremism to build the kind of ratings that attract advertisers-- low information weak minded people that sit in front of their TVs all day-- people with no lives who are open to suggestion, whether about buying a product or working themselves up into racist, murderous passions.

The hyperbolic Nazi comparisons from Rush Limbaugh; and Mark Levin stating that President Obama is “literally at war with the American people”; know nothing and former governor Sarah Palin, and the Senators Grassley, Coburn and Boner claiming that the president was planning “death panels” to euthanize the old and infirm; the endless shrieking that the president is a fascist, a socialist, a Marxist, an illegitimate Kenyan fraud, that he “harbors a deep resentment of America,” that he feels a “deep-seated hatred of white people,” that his government is preparing concentration camps, that it is operating snitch lines, that it is planning to wipe away American liberties”: All this hysterical and provocative, yet easily refutable, talk invites incites, and lays the groundwork for a corporate funded prefabricated justification for violence.

Some conservative commentators are gleefully anticipating just such an outcome.
Fox News’ Glenn Beck sympathetically affirming that white males are being driven into murderous rage by “political correctness.”
Or Beck insanely chuckling as he pretends to poison Nancy Pelosi.

Just yesterday, Sean Hannity openly contemplated violence-- and even stated that if it occurs, the president will have only himself to blame.

Ridiculous and ignorant allegations and fantasy murders may boost the flagging radio industry facing a collapse in advertising revenues-- down 30–40 percent over the past two years, reports NewMajority.com’s Tim Mak.

As revenues dry up, some hosts feel a need to intensify the hate talk, hoping to win a larger audience share . An audience that does not think for itself, and is easily manipulated, and misled.

Color of Change, has fought back against the hate speech on Beck and on Fox News. The ad revenues they were hoping to generate by ginning up racism and bigotry among paranoid seniors and angry low-information, anti-intellectual viewers is instead decreasing as more and more advertisers decline to have their products identified with Beck's divisive Goebbels-like ranting. Soon no one will be buying ad space on Beck's show but shady companies trying to hoodwink feebleminded elderly folks into buying gold.