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Tea Party Terrorism: Man Arrested For Patty Murray Death Threat Used “Progressive”

As Ben Smith realizes here, this is straight out of Glenn Beck’s playbook. Straight out of it. Oliver Willis

The term 'progressive,' catching on
People on the left have been struggling, for years, to ditch the "liberal" label, and many prefer "progressive."

The surest sign that it's catching on comes from the reported death threat against Sen. Patty Murray, for which a Washington state man was arrested today. Per the AP:

"There's a target on your back now," said one message on March 22. "It only takes one piece of lead. Kill the [expletive] senator! ... Now that you've passed your health care bill, let the violence begin."

In other messages over the next several days, the caller said, "I hope somebody puts a [expletive] bullet between your [expletive] eyes," and "I do believe that every one of you [expletive] socialist democratic progressive [expletives] need to be taken out."

And, he said, "I want to [expletive] kill you." [ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/The_term_progressive_catching_on.html ]

As a colleague notes, credit may go to Glenn Beck, who has called "progressivism" "a cancer."