This is really mind-boggling.

Read the quote. Beck says that they guy PROPOSED DOING THIS. They didn't say he referenced a book where these things MIGHT HAPPEN.

So, a Christian says they use the Bible for guidance, does that mean they are proposing nuking cities (Sodom and Gomorrah), poisoning water supplies (Nile turning to blood), killing every firstborn son and ending the earth (Revelations)?

I thought you had more intelligence than that. Beck was putting words in someone's mouth for the purpose of making himself look like the Great Investigative Journalist who could Save Us All - and hike his ratings.

He LIED. He MISREPRESENTED. He does what it takes to get rating because he is an ENTERTAINER. People at NBC were FIRED for making stuff up about pickup explosions but Beck still has his job. *IF* he were a journalist he would have been fired for something like that. It's called "character assassination".

And people are making excuses for him?

Again, read the references. The book stated that things COULD happen. they were not ADVOCATED as SOLUTIONS.