Glenn Beck
Wednesday, 05/27/2009 - 3:23 pm by Lynn Parramore | One Comment
[Note: updated on 8.9.10]
Deal Breaker: Glenn Beck
“I mean, I’m not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.”
Why is Glenn Beck a Deal Breaker?
Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator on FOX News, where he hosts one of the channel’s most popular programs. His three-hour daily radio program is the third-most popular in America, with about 6.5 million listeners each week. Regularly compared to Rush Limbaugh, Beck is at the forefront of the right-wing machine. He’s also often praised, sometimes by himself, for being funny. He is the author of several books, including the recent audio-only book, “America’s March to Socialism: Why we’re one step closer to giant missile parades.” No fan of the new administration, Beck has characterized the country under the President Obama as socialist, fascist, and anti-rich.
What he’s saying:
On his radio show, 4.26.09
“I think she’s a racist. I think she has decided things based on race.” -(On Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor)
On The Glenn Beck Program (FOX News)
“In this new capitalism there is a place at the table for the state? That is called fascism. Capitalism is just a vehicle, but when you introduce the state into it, it’s fascism.”
On Headline News (11.14.06)
“What I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.” (In an interview with Keith Ellison, a Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress)
On The Glenn Beck Program (4.22.09)
“I’m sick and tired of the spineless weasels who’ve never fought a war or run a business but keep trying to tell people how to fight wars and run businesses.”
On The Glenn Beck Program
“Diplomacy is neat and everything, but while your right hand is shaking, your left better be ready to throw a punch.”
On The Glenn Beck Program (8.5.10)
“It’s like I’m living on the damn Planet of the Apes!”
Who is taking him on?
ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson answers Beck’s beleaguered attacks on the organization, putting the host on the defensive. “Are you playing gotcha, Glenn?” …. Keith Olbermann names the conservative host May 6’s “Worst Person in the World”: “The people he lies about smears, misquotes cries over threatens makes up quotes from—no free speech for them.”….NYT Columnist Charles M. Blow says Beck’s hot-headed rhetoric fueled some extreme bloggers who stop just short of calling for outright violence to get their views across…Howard Dean hinted that there may be some similarities between Beck and Iranian mullahs…Jess Bachman of WallStats, an info-graphic designer, unveiled the circuitous connections between Beck and Goldline International, after an investigation into Beck’s connections to the company by New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.
The whole impulse to resist Beck must itself be resisted. The urge is unhealthy, born of an underlying acceptance of the Right/Left lie that continues to emasculate any hope for a future free of the contamination that befouls our poliical processes. As long as one misidentifiies the problem as “Republican” or “conservative”, one is condemned to a lifetime of shattered illusions, the latest instanciation, the so-called “progressive” Obama presidency. This false vision is a cancer evey bit as much to blame for our present malaise as are the maggots that sell themselves out to their paymaster lobbies. The fact that Beck even gets play here is worrisome.
Posted by Andrei Vyshinsky | September 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm