Townhall Magazine the self-described, fastest growing conservative magazine in America alerted me to the treachery via email blast.
As part of the American-hating left's ongoing effort to turn our country
into a bleak, totalitarian, socialistic state much like North Korea
(only bigger and with more Burger Kings), progressives are trying to
force Fox News' Glenn Beck off the air. With vicious smears and boycotts
of Beck's TV and radio sponsors, the hippies are trying to silence Beck
because his blend of "enlightenment and entertainment" is just too
seductive for the "liberal left" to tolerate.
Finally, something Townhall.com and I agree upon: Keep Glenn Beck on the
air...please!
Glenn Beck--An American Original
Just a few recent Beck gems from his radio and TV shows:
Regarding the history of race relations, Beck believes things were "moving in the right direction" "...until the lead up to the Civil War."
According to Beck: Joe McCarthy--the infamously unbalanced red-baiter of the 50s--was right.
Beck has suggested that predator drones would be used by Obama to monitor Tea Parties.
Beck: "We have more in line today with the communist goals of 1963" than with the Constitution.
Inspiration
Just take a moment to think about Beck's take on race relations in
America during the early to mid 19th century: "...moving in the right
direction." What could he possibly mean by that? Was there less
whipping by slave owners? Listening closely to that show's clip, he
seems to be implying that blacks and whites of the late 18th and 19th
centuries got along handsomely until politicians started making such a
big deal out of slavery. If they just had shut up about that little
divisive matter of one human being owning another, things would have
been fine.
If you don't count the Beck faithful, Beck may be the only
non-straight-jacketed individual on the planet to find the works of
discredited Mormon historian W. Cleon Skousen to be of any value at all,
let alone central to his very being. Skousen, the man Beck claims
"changed my life," was too far right for famed anti-communist FBI
Director, J. Edgar Hoover, who kept a 2,000-page dossier on the guy. An
avid supporter of the John Birch Society (famous for warning us about
the commie plot known as fluoridated water), and a big believer in
one-world conspiracies and end-times dogma, Skousen was marginalized as
too radical and loopy by Goldwater Republicans during the sixties, and
was treated by his own Mormon Church as an embarrassment. Skousen also
believed President Eisenhower was a communist agent. Beck, however, has
scraped the mildew off Skousen's books and papers, and repackaged them
as prophesy.
The Right vs. Wrong
These are just tiny glimpses into the astonishing nuttiness of Mr. Beck.
His bold incoherence, his open-your-mouth-and-see-what-comes-out
approach, and his knack for self-promotion are driving more sensible
conservatives, like Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard,
to distraction. Continetti's piece in the Standard is as merciless
to Beck as anything penned by the left--with a lot more sting.
Continetti has good reason to be concerned. Beck stands as a constant
reminder of the hijacking of the Republican Party by those who
increasingly waddle over the line between extremist ideology and
certifiable.
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