Frances Fox Piven Teams Up With MSNBC To Attack Glenn Beck

January 25, 2011
Jared Law

The YouTube video below is quite stunning.

That Frances Fox Piven actually expects Americans to believe her is (or should be), quite frankly, shocking.

When a thinking American who has the slightest yearning for freedom, who has the slightest bit of frustration with the leviathan federal government sees this, if they know ANYTHING about the Cloward & Piven strategy (outlined in her article in the May 2nd, 1966 article of The Nation Magazine, entitled 'The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty'), if they've watched a SINGLE episode of Glenn Beck when he discusses Piven, they would know that her attempts to label Glenn Beck's descriptions of her life's work 'insidious and scary' are equivalent to Obama calling Glenn Beck a radical leftist.

Just watch this video; she actually calls Glenn's exposing the truth as 'strange...paranoid stories about why things are changing in this country, why things are going wrong for them...I have no idea why he even plucked me out of the tens of thousands of people he had to choose from...he singles out particular people and tells this story about how big changes in American institutions can somehow be traced to something these people did...'

Piven goes on to characterize her article outlining the Cloward & Piven strategy as 'poor people claim their lawful benefits from the welfare system...it is so strange...that someone would be able to enlarge it to make it an explanation for why...the housing market collapsed, why the financial market collapsed, why Barack Obama was elected, why George Soros, why SDS, why, why, why...'

She suggests that Glenn's exposing her role only get 'traction when they're repeated a lot.' The MSNBC host then suggests that Glenn's calling Soros a 'puppet master' and that 'we've seen this movie before,' drawing a parallel between George Soros and Jewish banker victims of Hitler's Nazi Regime.

The MSNBC anchor then asks her about supposed death threats (Glenn's fault, of course), and she claims she doesn't pay any attention to Glenn (yeah, right). She then blames Glenn for phantom death threats, and at the 3:50 mark, she describes her recent article in The Nation magazine, and mentioned that she was asking why the poor aren't...she then lists a few items (marching, rallying), and right before she gets to the violence part, she suddenly shuts up, in a very strange fashion, and doesn't say another word until she is dismissed, and host feigns concern for her well-being (as if anybody is actually threatening her, and she isn't making it up)!

It was almost as if somebody was talking to her in an earpiece, telling her to not admit to the calling for violence on video, so we can't distribute it on YouTube and elsewhere. Take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5CZ6Nks2c