Posted on 01/02/2010 8:11:26 AM PST by Saije
It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.
This news, at once unsettling and unsurprising, came from the Gallup polling organization on Wednesday. Beck, the new Fox News host who has said President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" and alternately likens administration officials to Nazis and Marxists, was also more admired by Americans than Billy Graham and Bill Gates, not to mention Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. In Americans' esteem, Beck only narrowly trailed South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.
The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic and Mormon convert has become the first true demagogue of the information age. His nightly diet of falsehoods and conspiracies on Fox, and his daily outrages on the radio, have propelled his popularity past even Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. His method is simple: He goes places where others are forbidden by conscience.
Death panels? Government health insurance for dogs? FEMA concentration camps? An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009.
He also proposed on his radio show that people should read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to prepare for Obama's health-care plan -- and that's in addition to the 28 times the Fuhrer made an appearance on Beck's Fox show in 2009. The Anti-Defamation League identified the secret to Beck's success when it noted that he, unlike other prominent right-wing talkers, was willing "to give a platform to the conspiracy theorists and anti-government extremists."
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Dana's jealous, as well.
You know you are close to the target when the flak increases.
The truth bother Dana. Hopefully the rag he works for will go belly up soon and Dana will have to do something productive.
Poor, poor Accomplice Media - so many righties to demonize and so little time before the 2010 elections. chuckle
Like, Rush Limbaugh, GB is a national treasure.
The truth apparently bothers Dana. Hopefully the rag he works for will go belly up soon and Dana will have to do something productive for a living.
nice to know he watches beck though. or does he?
The last shrieks of a dying industry.
I do not think Dana Milbank is nearly as important is Dana thinks he is.
I love when the left does the ‘laundry list’ of all the negatives on anyone on our side....mostly made up and the rest a collection of any individuals worst life experiences. I guess all liberals are pure perfection from birth. God forbid someone run into an addiction or hit other low points in their first 40 years of life.
why i don’t trvst gb....
http://gunnyg.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-i-do-not-trust-glenn-beck-by-devvy.html
More or less the same story I read yesterday from elswhere.
“Instead of calling the lies for what they are, the party embraces her hate-speak and works in concert with Fox News and their Glenn Beck liar-drone to reinforce Palin’s vile mouth.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2419050/posts
I listen to Beck a lot and I’ve been watching his show since the ol’ HLN days...I can’t recall any time he has said that ‘Bammy has a “deep seated hatred of whites”.
But then again, I’m getting old, so...
Wow Dana’s got the claws out. Oh well it’s the Washington comPost so who reads it anyway. The funny thing is that everything this article points out such as the “civilian force” was taken from Bozo’s own speeches.
I’m an anti-government extremist...just like Madison, Jefferson, and Monroe.
I guess Milbank voted for the recovering cokehead
I guess Milbank voted for the recovering cokehead
[I can’t recall any time he has said that ‘Bammy has a “deep seated hatred of whites”.]
Didn’t Obama say as much in his book?
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