After Glenn Beck dedicated much of his television and radio programs to consistently attack Frances Fox Piven, a professor at City University of New York, the academic and her family began receiving countless death threats. In 1966, Piven and her husband wrote an article calling for a political movement among unemployed Americans, which Beck believes makes her one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world.” Now, Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum is joining Beck in pushing his vituperative conspiracy theories, and suggesting that Piven is actually responsible for transforming President Obama into a socialist.
Speaking at a forum held by Missouri Republican senatorial candidate Ed Martin, who last year said that President Obama wants to “take away [the right] to find the Lord,” said that Obama “wants to take us into socialism” through health care reform. Citing Radical in Chief, whose author accuses Piven of masterminding “violent rioting,” Schlafly claims that Obama attended a “Socialist Party conference and that was where he absolutely committed to socialism, and the main speaker was this Frances Fox Piven, whom Glenn Beck has been talking about, she’s still around, and she was the speaker who sold Obama on socialism.”
