Report: Labor Unions Threatened By Right-Wing Thugs Over Healthcare Support

So Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and their ilk are portraying those who are protesting President Obama's healthcare proposals as "grassroots" and even non-violent.
Try again.
Here's what the Huffington Post is reporting:

One of the country's largest unions has been hit by a wave of hostile calls and even death threats from people upset with its involvement in town-hall health care debates.
The Service Employers International Union was, as one aide put it, "deluged" with calls on Friday after several conservative media outlets accused the organization of trying to assault demonstrators who had showed up to protest Obama's health care agenda. Making it even scarier for union employees, the address of the union's St. Louis headquarters was mentioned on air by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Callers who reached both the front desk and the communications department compared the union officials to Nazis, union aides say. On Twitter, organizers of the town hall protest urged people to take pictures and write down the license plate numbers of attending SEIU officials. More alarming than anything else, angry callers and protesters pledged to take up arms against the union.
"If ACORN/SEIU attends these meetings for disruptive purposes, and you have a license to carry....carry," read one tweet.
"I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people's First Amendment rights," one caller warned. "That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment."

As I may have mentioned before, this is what some people do when they're losing the battle and can't come up with rational arguments to support their position. This is, also, very scary.
It reminded me too much of the old films I watched as a kid of Nazi thugs attacking their political opponents in the beginning of Hitler's reign of terror in the 1930's.
Limbaugh, Dobbs, Beck, and the rest of their ilk may want to deny their own complicity in the thugs' activities and try (as at least Dobbs has) to shift blame to Obama, but no one can deny the impact of their hate-filled rhetoric.
Furthermore, their efforts to falsely shift blame for their supporters' actions to Obama and his supporters is reminiscent of how the British colonialists tried to shift blame for the violent actions against Gandhi and his supporters when they were resisting calls to grant India's independence (as was documented in the Academy Award-winning motion picture, "Gandhi," which featured Ben Kingsley in the title role).
Unless these hate-mongering talk show hosts and their allies renounce and end their violent rhetoric, their shows must be taken off the air. Their rhetoric has no place in any public discourse.
They have the right to express their disagreement with the president's health care proposal and they have the right to encourage their supporters to peacefully express their opposition. But what they have encouraged instead is anything but peaceful or even lawful, and they must be held accountable along with the actual perpetrators of the misdeeds.