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You can also make the case that Beale was the fanatic set up by the Powers That Be to create the impression that the fed up people are absolutely nuts.

It has been awhile since I watched Network, so I may be making a bad comparison.

I’ve heard both Glenn Beck fans and haters compare him to Beale.....both as the real voice of the disgruntled to the man set up to make us disgruntled look nuts to middle of the road people.

Interesting psychology either way.

I might also add a lot of movies are uncanny at their ability to show a future.

You can chalk it up to the law of averages, or perhaps an ability of creative people to view a version of the future that is accurate, or even the way out there thought that it is predictive programming or a riddle to the upcoming events.

People talked bout how “no one saw 9 11 coming” but in a little watched X FILES spin off called the Lone Gunmen, in early 2001, there is an uncanny plotline involving flying a hijacked plane into the WTC. They even show the plane about to impact right before the Lone Gunmen guys take the plane back from remote control and miss the WTC.

I’m not saying anything about that one way or another, but it is certainly bizarre.

The movie Knowing last year had an oil rig explosion in the gulf with oil spill that look remarkably like what happened just a few months later.

A book manuscript was written by the brother of the Oklahoma Gov Frank Keating BEFORE the Oklahoma City Bombing with an uncanny similarity of the event, right down to how the bomber was caught on the interstate. The character was named Tom McVey and blew up the building in OKC..it was written two years before the OK City bombing took place. Final Jihad by Martin Keating. Tom McVey was caught in the book on the interstate with a broken tail light, Tim McVeigh was caught on the interstate with because of the license plate. They have actually published the book and used it’s “prophetic nature” to sell it. Mentions a TWA flight and WTC in it as well.

Body Scanners at the airport showed up in Total Recall...on and on and on.

Coincidences happen.....

You can also make the case that Beale was the fanatic set up by the Powers That Be to create the impression that the fed up people are absolutely nuts.

To me O'Reilly is Beale, and Rupert Murdoch is Arthur Jensen.