Posted on 03/13/2010 5:03:27 PM PST by conservativefunhouse
Glenn Beck loves freedom. He loves freedom of speech, freedom of travel, and he fights anyone who tries to take away those freedoms.
Beck is also against labels of left and right. Just like O’Reilly, he wants the image of an independent centrist. Both men do it by criticizing the right at times. Both men, in my opinion, care more about criticizing the right than they do about facts or logic (I admit I made a driveby comment about Bill. Maybe I’ll expand another time).
Recently, in his March 8th TV show, about 13 minutes in, Glenn Beck started warning about the dangers of the extreme left and extreme right all over the world. He started out by speaking about the weakening of center-right French Prime Minister Sarkozi, and the rise of who he called “far right” Villepin.
Then Beck said this:
“Also, you have far right Dutch MP Geert Wilders. Last year he was banned from the UK. They said his presence could threaten community harmony and therefore public safety. Last week not only was he allowed into England, he was at the house of lords, where he screened a film on the quran.”
The right, and the left, are growing again in Europe. The left, listen carefully, the left in Europe is communism. The right is fascism, in Europe. Europe is making the same mistakes that they made at the turn of the century.”
And then: “Please, watch the crazy fringe groups in Europe and email, tweet them to me…”
Two points are to be made here...
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Beck has done great work in exposing 0bama’s Marxist agenda, and watch his program often. It just happens that he is wrong on this one. Islamo-facism has to be crushed whenever it rears it’s ugly head. Fighting Islamo-Facism is NOT “far right” anything.
Beck, relating New Deal history (and the Red cells in his Adm)
He relates this new information that has been feed to him.
Sad, I knew of this back in the late 1960s when I was in my early 20s through my own reading and research.
Beck is too busy with his mantra, no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint are the same as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Who knew.
I’m sick of Beck constantly saying that, “It’s not just the left. The left and the right both stink on ice.” He always has to put out a disclaimer. Same as O’Reilly. Oddly enough, the left hates them both, and many of the right dislike them for that stance. McCain is no day at the beach, but I’m sure we wouldn’t have socialized medicine had he won the election.
Beck did not call Wilders a fascist. He had him on his show and treated him well. And what is with the wondering about Glenn’s feelings re: Israel? He has had Bibi Netanyahu on THREE TIMES (HLN and Fox) and praised him to the moon! This author is a moron.
His point is a warning about the danger of the size, scope and control of their governments. It is precisely why our founders chose a limited government with a balance of power and feared massive, all powerful governments like the Euros have and ours is turning into.
Limited government means when a far left or right candidate wins office, such an individual doesn't have the power to become a dictator. But, when you combine massive government power with a national crisis and a charismatic far left or far right individual who promises to solve all the nation's problems, those are perfect opportunities such an individual can become communist or fascist Savior/dictator respectively.
That's the history lesson and history's warning and is precisely why our founding fathers were so wonderfully wise creating our limited government with all the checks and balances. We should listen to them now. Beck's trying to warn us that the conditions are right for history to repeat itself...again.
Instead of getting caught up in the "our side is better than their side and whose side is Beck on?" BS, we should take that warning to heart and dismantle what's been built on top of our Republic, Both sides are dangerous with too much power!
Beck’s a hypocrite. At the same time he’s whining and moaning about socialists using Saul Alinsky tactics against him, he’s using the same approach against anyone who demands BO/BS obey the the Constitution by proving he is a natural born citizen.
Beck is for progress but he is NO progressive...
I like Beck, but he must have meant Jean Le Pen the far-right figure and not Villepin who was Chirac’s prime minister. Sloppy research on Beck’s part.
Anyone that is still looking for the perfect spokesperson for all of their views is looking on the wrong plane of existence.
He's a mormon. Whenever he mentions anything about God or religion, I cringe. Dude is so misguided; it is so very sad.
Geez.
So I really can’t get the 5 minutes of my life back which was spent reading this article?
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