Yep...you know that the more invective that comes to somone on the right from libs...the better he/she must be doing....lol
Look who's sticking up for Glenn Beck now.
The thing is, decent sane people find his conspiracy theory, violence inciting hate speech troubling:
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Conservative David Frum Calls Out Glenn Beck of Fox News for Passing Out Conspiracy Literature to His In-Studio Audience
Conservative David Frum, of New Majority, notes that Glenn Beck (of Fox News) has been promoting ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI conspiracy theories:
The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them was Cleon Skousen’s Five Thousand Year Leap. Skousen, who died in 2006, is one of the legendary cranks of the conservative world, a John Bircher, a grand fantasist of theories about secret conspiracies between capitalists and communists to impose a one-world government under the control of David Rockefeller.
There’s always been a market for this junk of course. Once that market was reached via mimeographed newsletters. Now it’s being tapped by Fox News.
Conspiracy theories always flourish during economic downturns. They flourished during the terrible slump of the 1890s (when they captured even so fine a mind as Henry Adams) and again in the 1930s.
Frum might also have noted that much of this literature has a decidedly Anti-Semitic slant to it. It’s not a cabal of rich people that Illuminati conspiratorialists claim to see, but a cabal of Jewish rich people. This is precisely why we need to hope that our economy does not plummet further, for a genuine economic depression would almost certainly breed a powerful authoritarian, fascist, and Anti-Semitic movement within the United States. The very fact that Beck would promote conspiracy material to his studio audience is suggestive of where conservatism could go over the next decade.
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WHAT IS GOING ON AT FOX NEWS?
Monday, March 16, 2009 12:26 PM
What the hell is going on at Fox News?
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So what is it about then? What are Beck’s growing number of viewers responding to? On air, Beck promotes sinister conspiracy theories. Here he is on Fox & Friends, warning that the Obama administration is planning a totalitarian takeover:
"We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest dreams. I have to tell you: I’m doing a story tonight that I wanted to debunk – these FEMA camps – I’m tired of hearing about them – you know about them? - I wanted to debunk them. We’ve now for several days done research on them. I can’t debunk them! If you trust our government, it’s fine. If you have any kind of fear that we might be heading towards a totalitarian state: look out. Buckle up. There’s something going on in our country … that ain’t good."
And here he is suggesting that serial killers erupt because they are pushed to the wall by “political correctness.” .
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