And who spreads Beck's nonsense after his shows end? Glenn Beck's audience in spite of itself. Why do they spread his ridiculousness?
Glenn Beck again with the answer:
"If you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
Until the Forbes profile, this quote was as close Beck has ever come to Welles' disclaimer. He said he's mentioned this on the air, but Beck viewers and listeners I've heard from have, with much anger at me for bringing it up, never heard him say any such thing. Nevertheless, if he's broadcasting what appears to be the truth, and his audience believes it, no other conclusion can be drawn other this: Beck thinks his audience is, at least, partly populated by idiots and that he's playing them for suckers. If there's no "gospel" truth to what he's saying and you're an idiot for believing it, what's his point? To enrich Glenn Beck by exploiting the naivetà © of idiots, of course.
So the responsibility is yours, Beck. You owe it to your audience to "step out of character" and admit, on your shows, that you're staging an elaborate hoax. Theater. Tell them the truth: that it's all play acting. Your hero Orson Welles did it, and so can you. Otherwise, we can only conclude that you're perfectly comfortable with scamming your "idiot" followers -- tricking them into believing that Martians (or Marxists) have landed, and then charging cash money for the snake oil to kill the invaders.
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