The mainstream media is at it again with distorting reality and fiction. They are pulling out all the stops this time by declaring the quickly aging 78-year-old Francis Fox Piven is the victim of violent rhetoric from Glenn Beck fans.

According to Gawker via The New York Times, Glenn Beck fans are so enraged at the message they’ve heard about from the CUNY professor they are flocking to The Blaze to publish death threats against Piven.

One such threat cited in the New York Times article said, “Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas[sic] ready and I’ll give My life to take Our freedom back.”

There is no proof that this user and others are actually fans of Glenn Beck’s work. They could be  members of a fringe-leftist group who’s sole purpose is to use advanced forms of guerrilla propaganda to achieve their ultimate goal of silencing voices like Glenn’s.

Last week an incident from this fringe group surfaced when a 22-second clip of Glenn spread among leftist websites. In the editing of the video it appeared Glenn told his audience to shoot revolutionaries. The video triggered outrage among leftists even though it was taken completely out of context.

If the comments found on The Blaze were from a Glenn Beck fan then they haven’t been listening closely to his message.

Glenn has told his radio and television audiences anyone who advocates violence while evoking his name that he’d be the first to disavow them – regardless of their political affiliation or intent. Glenn Beck’s message is not to take up arms to ‘take back our country’ – his stated goal is for each of us to change the country through a personal revolution. He has said in order for the country to get back on the right track we must first fix ourselves – a message that is repeated in Glenn’s latest book “The 7.”

In the past 12 months Glenn has also called for listeners to sign Dr. Martin Luther King’s pledge of nonviolence on his website, GlennBeck.com. The pledge, which originated during the civil rights marches of he 1960’s, has 10 common sense statements from, “Remember the nonviolent movement seeks justice and reconciliation – not victory” to “Refrain from violence of fist, tongue and heart.”

After the tragic shooting in Tuscon Arizona Glenn once again took to the airwaves to ask politicians and his listeners to sign another pledge of nonviolence. This pledge written by Glenn called for the denouncing of anyone who spoke of using violence against others of any political allegiance – including the denouncing of Francis Fox Piven.

Despite being written-off as a harmless 78-year-old sociology professor by Gawker, Piven is not a typical innocent grandmotherly-type who knits her nights away. Piven is in the thick of it all, she’s a modern day Margaret Sanger who is pining for the birth of a socialist revolution in the United States. She spends her days writing for progressive journals and educating young minds of America to her revolutionist agenda.  She spends her nights calling into progressive radio programs – such as “Democracy Now” and other progressive podcasts.

Glenn has featured Piven on his television and radio programs several times over the past two years. As noted on Gawker, Glenn frequently references a 1966 article written by Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward in The Nation titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” In the article they argued one possible way to force politicians to pass a guaranteed national income was to overwhelm the welfare system with new enrollments. They felt that if the politicians were forced to replace the clogged welfare system with a national income this would have ended poverty.

Most recently Piven has been calling for violence from unions, those in poverty, and students.

In 2004 while speaking at the University of Wisconsin Piven said while she had great respect for non-violence she thinks violence is acceptable if it’s part of the revolutionary blueprint.  “Unless you have a good reason for breaking the window, probably you shouldn’t do that. Unless it’s you know, a big part of your strategy.”(Video here)

While writing yet again for The Nation in 2010, Piven asked “So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations, sit-ins and unruly mobs? After all, the injustice is apparent. Working people are losing their homes and their pensions while robber-baron CEOs report renewed profits and windfall bonuses. Shouldn’t the unemployed be on the march? Why aren’t they demanding enhanced safety net protections and big initiatives to generate jobs?”

In the same article she would go on to say the angry crowds would need to “develop a proud and angry identity” and evolve from being “hurt and ashamed to being angry and indignant.”

“[T]he out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who are in fact responsible,” She said before admiring the recent violent strikes in Greece and England.

The easily disregarded and relatively unknown Francis Fox Piven is not your typical kitchen apron wearing grandma unless of course, your grandmother is calling for a violent rising up of an entire social-class. While many who identify themselves as Liberals or Progressives might not be familiar with her work, she is an influence of the entire movement.

The threats against Piven by an alleged Glenn Beck fan is outrageous. Period. Although, what is equally outrageous is the fact Gawker and The New York Times have completely ignored Piven’s desire for an violent overthrow of our government. Piven should not be silence – instead her message should be heard by more people so that we all can stand guard against her and those who think like her.