Probably going into the overnight spin-offs:

Mickey Kaus: Fears of Glenn Beck-inspired violence are legit

Kaus had written earlier:

I hate to say it,** but doesn’t Nancy Pelosi have a point when she worries about a rhetorical “climate” in which violence might take place? A few years ago, I fretted that crazies on the angry left might turn violent. These days, I’ve heard enough scary stories from conservative friends to justify worrying about the angry right. It only takes one or two people to make a mess, and the way opposition to Obama is phrased will obviously have something to do with how many, if any, nutters come out of the woodwork. Glenn Beck, the recent times I’ve listened to him, puts his Obama criticism in an apocalyptic framework—as if Obama is staging some sort of coup— that might seem to justify violence (despite Beck’s own disclaimers) if you happened to be a very disenchanted person with weapons lying around.

Righteously denouncing Beck only enhances his appeal, of course—better to deal with “root causes.” But Pelosi’s hardly crazy to worry. …