Why Is Glenn Beck Still On The Air?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media, Partisan Hacks, VideoI didn’t know it was getting this bad.
Yes, Beck is trying to position himself as a modern day Howard Beale, but the problem is he’s pushing crazy conspiracy theories instead of telling it like it really is.
And Fox is letting it happen behind the guise of some crocodile tears.
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum has this to say…
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.
Good times.
(h/t: Smooth Jazz)
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March 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Snake oil salesmen were the first populists.
March 25th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Oh, DUDE! It’s the trilateral commission!! Everybody panic!!!
A cranky Bass Harbor, Maine innkeeper once regaled me with a fireside tale of the secret upstate NY meetings of the Rockerfeller-led trilateral commission. I recall he also maintained that “the jews” in general were involved.
When I told him that I doubted all conspiracy theories on principle because I had never met a single person who could keep a secret, much less a hundred, the innkeeper had to struggle to hold down his left leg, which began to twitch violently. Other than that, he seemed like a nice guy.
True story.
Such folks don’t need books and TV shows, they need anti-psychotic medication. If only tinfoil really DID keep the radio signals from reaching the transmitters in our heads, huh? :-)